Board of Directors

KATHERINE E. RUSSO

CINZIA BEVITORI

MARIA BORTOLUZZI

^{University of Naples L’Orientale}

^{University of Bologna – Alma Mater Studiorum}

^{University of Udine}

Director

Vice-Director

Short bio: Katherine E. Russo, PhD University of New South Wales (Sydney), is Full Professor in English Language and Translation at the University of Naples “L’Orientale”. She has published widely on Climate Change Discourse, Climate-induced migration, Hate Speech, Intercultural communication and World Englishes. She is the PI of a local unit of the European Key Action220 Programme “Freedom of movement at play: EU citizens’ identity and transnational discourses”.

Short bio: Cinzia Bevitori is Associate Professor of English Language and Linguistics at the University of Bologna, Forlì campus. Her main research interests focus on the analysis of institutional, political, and media discourse of climate change and the environment by combining the methodological and theoretical tools and techniques of corpus linguistics, critical discourse analysis, systemic functional linguistics, and appraisal.

Short bio: Maria Bortoluzzi (PhD, Edinburgh) is Associate Professor of English Language and Translation at the University of Udine (Italy). She has published extensively in the fields of ecolinguistics, critical discourse studies, multimodal and multiliteracy awareness for language teacher education. She has recently co-edited the volume, Ecological Communication and Ecoliteracy (Bloomsbury Academic, 2024) (with Elisabetta Zurru).

RITA CALABRESE

PAOLA CATENACCIO

MASSIMILIANO DEMATA

^{University of Salerno}

^{University of Milan}

^{University of Turin}

Short bio: Rita Calabrese (PhD) is Professor of English Language and Linguistics at the University of Salerno. She has published in the fields of variationist research and second language acquisition. Her latest book Corpus Linguistics and English Across ‘The Three Circles’ (2024) provides a survey of issues on ‘applied’ corpus linguistics across two crucial decades (2000-2020) which have marked enormous advancement in the field of corpora studies.

Short bio: Paola Catenaccio is Full Professor of English at the University of Milan, where she currently serves as Head of the School of Language Mediation and Intercultural Communication. She has authored over a hundred books and articles on topics ranging from CSR discourse, to conspiracy theorising, to scientific popularisation and misinformation, adopting a multi-methods approach combining discourse analysis, argumentation theory and corpus linguistics.

Short bio: Massimiliano Demata is Associate Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Turin. He has published widely on political and media discourse in the UK and the USA, conspiracy theories, the language of populism and discourses on borders, nationalism and immigration. His latest single-authored monograph is Discourses of Nation and the Borders in the USA (Routledge 2022).

DENISE MILIZIA

^{University of Bari}

Short bio: Denise Milizia is Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science at the University of Bari Aldo Moro. She has published numerous works in which she analyses the relationship between the UK and the European Union, with a special focus on the role of metaphor in European politics. Her most recent interests lie in the study of new crises, in particular the Covid-19 pandemic and the challenge of climate change and global warming, both in Europe and in the U.S.