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Nina Venkataraman

Lecturer

Contact Information

Telephone: 6601 8117
Email: nina-v@nus.edu.sg
Office: CELC #03-09 (10 Architecture Drive, Singapore 117511)

Nina VENKATARAMAN is a Lecturer at the Centre for English Language Communication, National University of Singapore. She teaches academic writing and climate communication, with a particular focus on the ways language and images shape public understandings of sustainability and the climate crisis. Her research examines erasure in environmental discourse, drawing on ecolinguistics and visual discourse analysis to explore how communication makes some voices, relationships, and futures visible while rendering others invisible. She serves on the Steering Committee of the International Ecolinguistics Association and is a reviewer for Language & Ecology.

Recent Courses Taught and/or Coordinated

  • RVX100J; Storying Sustainability: Dodos, Condos and Tornadoes
  • UTW1001J: The Framing of the Climate Crisis
  • ENV2320: Communications for Environmental Studies
  • ES2660: Communicating in the Information Age
  • CDE2000: Creating Narratives

Selected Publications

  • Venkataraman, N. (2026). Discourses of Climate Refugees. In R. Poole, D. F. Virdis, J. Hampton & A. Ghorbanpour (Eds.), The Bloomsbury Handbook of Ecolinguistics. Bloomsbury Academic.
  • Venkataraman, N. (2025). Review of Multispecies Discourse Analysis: The Nexus of Discourse and Practice in Sea Turtle Tourism and Conservation by Gavin Lamb. Language & Ecology.
  • Venkataraman, N. (2021). Review of Qualitative Studies of Silence: The Unsaid as Social Action, edited by Amy Jo Murray and Kevin Durrheim. Discourse & Society, 32(1), 123-124
  • Venkataraman, N. (2020). The absent victims: An ecolinguistic study of environmental refugees in The New York Times. JAM It! (Journal of American Studies in Italy), (3), 109-141.
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