Captive Dinosaur Ltd. owns The English Language List, a professional community for English teachers launched and run by the company MD Mark Boardman in 2000. Mark is an English teacher now working as a writer, private consultant and scholar. He holds a Bridge Fellowship in the Linguistics department at The University Of Huddersfield and is a PhD candidate there, researching computational and qualitative approaches to the construction of ironic persona in Emily Dickinson’s writing. Mark is available for consultancy work in all aspects of English A-Level teaching, having played a key role in redeveloping Edexcel’s A-Level English Language specification for the most recent A-Level reforms. He is an expert in linguistic and literary theories of text analysis.