Person

Director of Studies, Senior Lecturer
- English Studies
- Centre for Languages and Literature
Contact information
E-mail lene.nordrumenglund.luse
Phone +46 46 222 75 59
Room SOL:H323
Visiting address
Helgonabacken 12, Lund
Postal address
Box 201, 221 00 Lund
Internal post code 20
I work as a lecturer and researcher in English linguistics. My general research interests are English for specific purposes, multimodality, contrastive linguistics (English – Swedish/Norwegian) and systemic functional linguistics. My research is corpus-based, making use of monolingual-, multilingual- and learner corpora. I teach communication courses at post-graduate level at the Faculty of Engineering.
Research
My profile in Lund University research portal
- Agency in academic writing (research leader)
Books (1)
Editorships (3)
- Nordrum, L., Oksefjell Ebeling, S. & Hasselgård, H. (2016). (Eds.) Nordic Journal of English Studies : Languages in contrast 20 years on. NJES: Nordic Journal of English Studies, 15, 1-199. Göteborgs universitet, Nordic Association of English Studies.
- Bareis, A. & Nordrum, L. (2015). (Eds.) How to Make Believe : The Fictional Truths of the Representational Arts. Narratologia, 49. De Gruyter.
- Nordrum, L. (2007). (Ed.) Nordic Journal of English Studies : Volume 6, No 1. Special issue dedicated to Professor Karin Aijmer. NJES: Nordic Journal of English Studies, 6. Göteborgs universitet, Nordic Association of English Studies.
Articles (8)
- Nordrum, L. & Johansson, M. (2022). A multilingual parallel corpus approach to time sufficiency expressions in Scandinavian and English. Lund Journal of English Studies, 3, 1-4.
- Eriksson, A. & Nordrum, L. (2018). Unpacking challenges of data commentary writing in master’s thesis projects: an insider perspective from chemical engineering. Research in Science & Technological Education, 36, 499-520. Routledge.
- Johansson, M. & Nordrum, L. (2018). Swedish orka viewed through its English correspondences – ability, insufficient strength/energy or insufficient volition?. Bergen Language and Linguistics Studies, 9, 155-172. University of Bergen Library.
- Johansson, M. & Nordrum, L. (2016). Swedish hinna viewed through its English correspondences – have time or be able to?. NJES: Nordic Journal of English Studies, 15, 171-199. Göteborgs universitet, Nordic Association of English Studies.
- Nordrum, L., Oksefjell Ebeling, S. & Hasselgård, H. (2016). Introduction : Languages in contrast 20 years on. NJES: Nordic Journal of English Studies, 15, 1-6. Göteborgs universitet, Nordic Association of English Studies.
- Nordrum, L. (2015). Exploring spontaneous-event marking though parallel corpora: Translating English ergative intransitive constructions into Norwegian and Swedish. Languages in Contrast, 15, 230-250. John Benjamins Publishing Company.
- Nordrum, L., Evans, K. & Gustafsson, M. (2013). Comparing student learning experiences of in-text commentary and rubric-articulated feedback: strategies for formative assessment. Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 38, 919-940. Taylor & Francis.
- Nordrum, L. (2007). Preface to Nordic Journal of English Studies, 2007: 6:1. NJES: Nordic Journal of English Studies, 6. Göteborgs universitet, Nordic Association of English Studies.
Book chapters (4)
- Johansson, M. & Nordrum, L. (2021). Tracing processes in auxiliarization : Time-sufficiency verbs from a Norwegian-Swedish-English contrastive perspective. In Cermakova, A., Egan, T., Hasselgard, H. & Rorvik, S. (Eds.) Studies in Corpus Linguistics, Time in Languages, Languages in Time (pp. 67-93), 101. John Benjamins Publishing Company.
- Nordrum, L. & Eriksson, A. (2015). Data commentary in science writing: Using a small, specialized corpus for formative self-assessment practices. In Callies, M. & Götz, S. (Eds.) Learner Corpora in Language Testing and Assessment [SCL 70] (pp. 59-84), 70. John Benjamins Publishing Company.
- Nordrum, L. (2013). Agens i medisindiskurs - en kontrastiv analyse av to norske og to svenske forskningsartikler i medisin. In Hållsten, S., Wojahn, D. & Rehnberg, H. S. (Eds.) Text- och samtalsstudier från Södertörns högskola (pp. 73-88), 2. Södertörns högskola.
- Nordrum, L. (2000). Adverbial eller adledd? : en sammenligning av beskrivelsene av adverbial supplementive clauses i CGEL og frie predikativer i SAG og NRG. In Engdahl, E. & Norén, K. (Eds.) MISS. Meddelande från Institutionen för svenska språket vid Göteborgs universitet, Att använda SAG : 29 uppsatser om Svenska Akademiens grammatik (pp. 362-382), 33. Göteborgs universitet.
Prefaces (1)
Conference contributions (13)
- Johansson, M. & Nordrum, L. (2019). From space to time : Norwegian rekke viewed through its correspondences in the English-Norwegian Parallel Corpus.
- Nordrum, L. & Johansson, M. (2017). Swedish orka viewed through its English correspondences – insufficient energy or couldn’t be bothered?.
- Eriksson, A. & Nordrum, L. (2016). Data Commentary in Science Writing : perceptions and strategies within disciplines.
- Nordrum, L. (2014). A comparison of data commentary in chemical engineering research papers and master theses – exploring the intersemiosis of written and visual material for applied purposes.
- Nordrum, L. & Eriksson, A. (2014). Data Commentary in Science Writing : A Discourse Model for Multimodal Result Presentation in Science Publication.
- Nordrum, L. & Eriksson, A. (2014). Data Commentary in Science Writing : A Discourse Structure of Multimodal Result Presentation in Science Publication.
- Nordrum, L. & Eriksson, A. (2013). Data commentary in science writing: a corpus - based comparison of research articles and master’s theses in technical fields for formative self - assessment practices. Learned Corpus Research 2013 : Book of Abstracts, 112-113. Universitetet i Bergen.
- Nordrum, L. & Eriksson, A. (2013). Data commentary in science writing: a corpus-based comparison of research articles and master’s theses in technical fields for formative self-assessment practices.
- Nordrum, L., Evans, K. & Gustafsson, M. (2013). Investigating different types of criteria-based assessment through student data: towards optimization of assessment designs.
- Nordrum, L. (2012). The ergative perspective in contrast: the rhetorical function of the ergative perspective in English, Norwegian and Swedish research articles in medicine.
- Nordrum, L. (2011). Norwegian and Swedish translations of English ergative verbs - an exploratory study.
- Nordrum, L. & Evans, K. (2011). Rubrics as assessment for learning.
- Nordrum, L. (2010). Grammatical metaphor through translation.
Reviews (5)
- Nordrum, L. (2022). Review of Maagerø, Mulvad & Tønnessen (2021): Women in social semiotics and SFL: Making a difference. Language, Context and Text, 4, 375-378. John Benjamins Publishing Company.
- Nordrum, L. (2018). María José López-Couso, Belén Méndez-Naya, Paloma Núñez-Pertejo and Ignacio Palacios-Martínez (eds.). Corpus linguistics on the move. Exploring and understanding English through corpora. Leiden: Brill/Rodopi. 2016. 368 pp. ISBN13 9-789-004-308077. Reviewed by Lene Nordrum, Lund University. ICAME Journal, 412, 240-245. De Gruyter Open.
- Nordrum, L. (2015). Review of Contrastive Discourse Analysis : Functional and Corpus Perspectives. Linguistics and the Human Sciences, 10, 327-332. Equinox Publishing.
- Ferreira, A. & Nordrum, L. (2014). A review of Flottum, K. (Ed.) (2007) Language and Discipline Perspectives on Academic Discourse. Linguistics and the Human Sciences, 10, 170-188. Equinox Publishing.
- Nordrum, L. (2011). A review of Introducing Arguments - Linda Pylkkänen. Linguistics and the Human Sciences, 4, 215-218. Equinox Publishing.
Miscellaneous (1)
Administrative
- Director of Studies at English Studies
Teaching

Director of Studies, Senior Lecturer
- English Studies
- Centre for Languages and Literature
Contact information
E-mail lene.nordrumenglund.luse
Phone +46 46 222 75 59
Room SOL:H323
Visiting address
Helgonabacken 12, Lund
Postal address
Box 201, 221 00 Lund
Internal post code 20