She gained her PhD at the University of Augsburg, Germany, in 2005 and then completed extensive post-doctoral research at the University of Sydney (2006-2008) and the University of Technology, Sydney (2008-2009). Bednarek’s research focused, respectively, on evaluative language in the 'popular' vs. the 'quality' press, emotion talk across registers of English, and, most recently the language of fictional television and the linguistic construction of newsworthiness. Her research interests include topics in the areas of corpus linguistics, ecolinguistics, discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, pragmatics, media linguistics, and, more specifically, the linguistic expression of emotion and attitude.