Curriculum

Academic Background

• PhD (cum laude) in Applied Linguistics (Doctorado Interuniversitario en Lingüística Aplicada – sobraesaliente – cum laude, Mencion de Calidad per el MEC 2005/2006), Departamento de Estudios Ingleses, Universitat Jaume I, Castellón de la Plana, Spain.
• Diploma of Advanced Studies in Applied Linguistics (Diploma de Estudios Avanzados en Lingüística Aplicada), Departamento de Estudios Ingleses, Universitat Jaume I, Castellon de la Plana, Spain.
• M.Ed. (International Teaching) – Framingham State University, Framingham, MA, USA.
• B. M. Ed. (magna cum laude with honors) – Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, USA.

Teaching positions

• January 2012 to present:   Associate Professor of English Language and Linguistics, Department of English Studies, University of Pisa (Italy). National Scientific Qualification at the level of Full Professor (08/08/2014-08/08/20) and (12/09/2019 al 12/09/2025).
• Aug 2011 – Jun 2012:     Assistant Professor of Business Communication, College of Business, Zayed University, United Arab Emirates. Courses taught: Language in the Workplace and Business Writing Lab.
• Jan 2004 – Jul 2011:  Tenured English Language Researcher, Università degli Studi di Firenze (Italy). Department of Linguistics (Jan 2004-December 2010). Department of Management, Finance and Accounting (January 2011–December 2011).
• Sept – Dec 2010:  Adjunct professor for a semester course “Organizational Communication and its Social Context”, Leonard N. Stern School of Business, New York University in Florence (study abroad program).
• Jan 1994 – Dec 2003: EAP/ESP instructor at the University of Florence (Italy) School of Economics.
• Jul 2001 – Apr 2003: Online business writing tutor for Columbia Interactive, the online division of the Department of Continuing Education, Columbia University, New York, NY.

Editorial activities

• Member of the Editorial Board of English for Specific Purposes (Elsevier), http://www.journals.elsevier.com/english-for-specific-purposes/editorial-board/
• Member of the Advisory Board of Language Value, and international peer-reviewed electronic journal is dedicated to the linguistic description of English, semantics, corpus linguistics. http://www.languagevalue.uji.es/index.php/languagevalue/about/editorialTeam
• Referee for: Journal of Pragmatics (Elsevier), English for Specific Purposes (Elsevier), Journal of English for Academic Purposes (Elsevier), Intercultural Pragmatics, Text & Talk, International Journal of Business Communication, English Text Construction (John Benjamins), Reading in a Foreign Language (University of Hawaii), Journal of Research in Reading (Blackwell), ESP Across Cultures, Language Value, The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics (Wiley-Blackwell), Routledge (book proposals).
• External referee for FWO Fonds Wettenschlappilijk Onderzoek (Foundation for Scientific Research Belgium) for the project proposal: Journalism and the politics of language diversity in a globalized mediascape. An ethnographic perspective on sourcing practices at the TV news desk of the Flemish public broadcasting company (May 2011).

Other activities

• From April 2014: Campus Administrator for a partnership between the University of Pisa and the Berkeley Center (University of California) for access to the Berkeley Language Center’s Library of Foreign Language Film Clips.
• External member for PhD presented by Cheng Choong Peng, “Interactional Metadiscoursal Markers and Communicative Modes in Engineering Presentations: Establishing the Value of Proposals through Stance and Engagement”, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. September 2020.
• President of PhD Oral Defence Committee, Universitat Jaume I, Castellon, Spain. PhD thesis presented by Edgar Bernad Mechò: A multimodal approach to metadiscourse as an organizational tool in lectures, February 16, 2018.
• Guest Lecture for GRAPE (Group for Research on Academic and Professional English) presso la Facultat de Ciències Humanes i Socials, Departament d’Estudis Anglesos, Universitat Jaume I, Castellon, Spain. Title of Lecture: Multimodality and Financial Communication: The Case of Earnings Calls, February 15, 2018.
• Doctoral Thesis  – Cycle XXXI – 2017/2018: Gianmarco Vignozzi – Between spontaneous and planned discourse: A linguistic analysis of political interviews (Co-supervisors with Silvia Bruti)
• Member of PhD Oral Defence Committee, Universitat Jaume I, Castellon, Spain. PhD thesis presented by Julia Valeiras Jurado, “A Multimodal Approach to Persuasion in Oral Presentations: The case of conference presentations, research dissemination talks, and product pitches”, June 9, 2017.
• Doctoral Thesis – Cycle – XXVIII – 2015/2016: Debora Ciampi – “Translating morphological hapax legomena: A corpus-assisted study of filmic teen speech” (Co-tutor with Silvia Bruti)
• Member of PhD Oral Defence Committee, Universitat Jaume I, Castellon, Spain. PhD thesis presented by Vicent Beltrán Palanques, “Complaint Sequences across Proficiency Levels: The Contribution of Pragmatics and Multimodality”, December 16, 2016.
• Guest Lecturer for Master’ program in Business Communication, Aalto University, Department of Mangagement, Studies, Helsinki, Finland. Title of lecture: The Rhetoric of Earnings Calls. March 18th 2015.
• Seminar for Department of Management Studies, Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland, “Corpus-assisted discourse analysis: A methodology for investigating financial communication”. March 18, 2015.
• Member of PhD oral defence committee, University of Pisa, Italy. PhD thesis presented by Martina Johnson: “Towards a definition of metonymy”. July 3, 2014.
• Member of PhD Oral Defence Committee, Universitat Jaume I, Castellon, Spain. PhD thesis presented by Mercedes Querol Julián, “Discussion sessions in specialised conference paper presentations: A multimodal approach to analyse evaluation”. February 4, 2011.
  
• Guest Lecturer for Master’s program English Language for International Trade (ELIT). Universitat Jaume I, Castellon, Spain. Title of lecture: Persuasive Language in Corporate Conference Calls. February 3, 2011.
• Guest lecturer: Universitat Jaume I, Castellon, Spain. Title of lecture: Introduction to Epistemic and Deontic Modality. Title of seminar for English Department staff: Implementing European Harmonization at the University of Florence Faculty of Economics, February 15, 2005.

Conference scientific committees and organization

• Scientific Committee for “Discursive persectives on knowledge dissemination in corporate and professional communnication: focus on ethical and ideological aspects”, Napoli, 16-17 gennaio 2020.
• Scientific and Organizational Committee for CLAVIER 2019 . Knowledge Dissemination and Multimodal Literacy: Research Perspectives on ESP in a Digital Age, Pisa, 28-29 novembre 2019.
• Scientific Committee for AMode “Approaches to Multimodal Digital Environments: from theories to practices”, Roma, 20-22 giugno 2019.
• Membro del Comitato Scientifico: PRIN Colloquium, “Exploring the Discursive Creation of Argumentation and Ideology in Evolving Specialized Knowledge Domains”, Roma, 13-14 giugno 2019.
• Scientific Committee for CLAVIER 2018 “Knowledge Dissemination, Ethics and Ideology in Specialised Communication: Linguistic and Discursive Perspectives, Milano 29 novembre – 1 dicembre.
• Scientific Committee for CERLIS 2018, “Scholarly Pathways: Knowledge Transfer and Knowledge Exchange in Academia”, 21-23 giugno 2018.
• Scientific Committee for CLAVIER 2017 International Conference “Representing and redefining specialised knowledge”, Bari, 30 November – 2 December 2017.
•  Scientific and Organizazional Committee for AIA XXVIII Conference – Worlds of Words: Complexity, Creativity, and Conventionality in English Language, Literature and Culture”, Pisa, 14-16 September 2017
• Scientific Committee for Discourse Approaches for Financial Communication, Lugano, Switzerland, 3-6 July 2017.
• Scientific organization of the International workshop Multimodal Perspectives on Language Research and Teaching International Workshop – University of Pisa – May 15, 2015
• Scientific Committee for CLAVIER 14 Workshop: LSP research, teaching and translation across languages and cultures, University of Milan, November 20-21, 2014
• Organizing Committee of the Conference/Session Chair of the international conference on Language and Text Variation in Business and Economics, Florence, Italy, February 3-4, 2005.

Professional organizations

• ABC (Association for Business Communication)
• AIA (Associazione Italiana di Anglistica) – Italian Association of English Studies)
• ESSE (European Society of Studies of English)
• IPra (International Pragmatics Association)