Genre Across Borders (GXB) | an international, interdisciplinary network of researchers, theories, and resources

About GXB

Genre is a idea that crosses disciplinary, national, methodological, conceptual, and pedagogical borders. The purpose of Genre across Borders (GXB) is to advance genre theory and research by helping scholars and students cross these borders. The site combines two primary functions:

As a reference guide to scholarship in the many fields of genre study
As a networking portal for scholars and teachers

GXB aims to offer a comprehensive overview of the multiple strands of genre scholarship and their relationships, in order to catalyze intellectual exchange and pedagogical innovation and to help us understand the processes and motivations of genre development, evolution, and circulation.

GXB now features translations of research introductions on our Research page. Contact us to contribute a translation. You may also select an interface display language on your Profile page.

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Sample Bibliography

[1233] Calderón, D. I. (2003). Género discursivo, discursividad y argumentación. Enunciación. 8(1), 44-56.

[740] Folsom, E. (2007). Database as Genre: The Epic Transformation of Archives. Publications of the Modern Language Association. 122, 1571–1579.

Glossary Sample

Novel genre or subgenre

A class of cybergenres in which the new genre emerges within the new medium. Novel subgenres are "either not based on previously existing genres or substantially different from existing genres on the basis of increased functionality" (97). They can...

User Spotlight

malcyclark

Name: Malcolm Clark

Institution: University of the Highlands & Islands - Moray

Department/Program Affiliation: Head of Computing & Post-Doc

Education: MSc 2006, PhD 2014

Status: Post-Doc

Twitter: LossieSeadog

Academia.edu: MalcolmClark

Biography: I left the Royal Air Force after 9 1/2 years service and was medically discharged in 1998. I chose to re-educate myself from scratch because I left school with a solitary qualification, a D in English, actually two if you include the School of Hard Knocks. My undergraduate qualification in 2004 was a BSc (Hons) Internet & Multimedia course then a MSc course at RGU and PG Cert course (with Distinction). In 2006 I became a PhD candidate studying the beautiful subject of Genre in Information Retrieval & Seeking at The Robert Gordon University in Scotland. My supervisors were: Professor Ian Ruthven, Professor Patrick O'Brian Holt and Professor Dawei Song.