Scientific Board

CINZIA BEVITORI

MARCO BOFFI

MARIA BORTOLUZZI

^{University of Bologna – Alma Mater Studiorum}

^{University of Milan}

^{University of Udine}

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: Marco Boffi is Assistant Professor of Social Psychology at the University of Milan. His research focuses on the intersection of environment, wellbeing, and quality of life, with practical applications from local to global scales. Specializing in community engagement in urban transformations and psychological factors promoting sustainability, he investigates the role of digital tools in such processes.

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

ALESSANDRA DE CHIARA

^{University of Salerno}

^{University of Milan}

^{University of Naples L’Orientale}

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: Alessandra De Chiara is Full Professor in Business Management and Lecturer in Corporate Social Responsibility at the University of Naples “L’Orientale” (Italy). Her scientific activity aims to expand research in the field of sustainability and corporate social responsibility, also in regard to the units of investigation of supply chains, clusters and local systems. She is the Rector’s Delegate for sustainable development at L’Orientale.

MASSIMILIANO DEMATA

CHIARA GHIDINI

JANE HELEN JOHNSON

^{University of Turin}

^{University of Naples L’Orientale}

^{University of Bologna – Alma Mater Studiorum}

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).

Short bio: Chiara Ghidini is Associate Professor Religions and Philosophies of East Asia at the University of Naples L’Orientale. Her research focuses, amongst other things, on Buddhist vegetarian cuisine, and the relationship between Buddhism and bioethical issues. She co-authored La Scelta vegetariana tra Asia ed Europa (The Vegetarian Choice between Asia and Europe, 2019) with Paolo Scarpi and published “Japanese shōjin ryōri: The Green Competition from Buddhist Temples to TV Shows”(2021).

Short bio: Jane Johnson is Researcher in English Language and Linguistics at the University of Bologna. Her main research interests include ESP and Corpus-Assisted Discourse Studies (CADS). Her current research projects include CADS analyses of climate change in different linguistic genres. Her recent publications in this area, working with Cinzia Bevitori, appear in Text and Talk (2022) and the Journal of CADS (forthcoming).

DENISE MILIZIA

LICIA REGGIANI

KATHERINE ELIZABETH RUSSO

^{University of Bari}

^{University of Bologna – Alma Mater Studiorum}

^{University of Naples L’Orientale}

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.

Short bio: Licia Reggiani is Associate Professor of French language and Translation at the Department of Classical Philology and Italian Studies at the University of Bologna. Her research focuses on translation, particularly literary translation, Francophone literature and the concept of the linguistic imaginary, and French discourse analysis, also from a French-Italian comparative perspective, particularly about “événement” and environment. Her work is published in numerous journals and edited volumes.

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”. Her research focuses 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”.