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Sue MendelsohnView profile

Senior Lecturer

• Writing Pedagogy
• Rhetorical Theory
• Multimodal Composing
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Sue Mendelsohn is a Senior Lecturer in English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, where she directs the Writing Center and serves as Associate Director of First-Year Writing. She holds a Ph.D. in rhetoric and composition from the University of Texas at Austin. Her research explores writing pedagogy , multimodal composing , visual rhetoric , and writing center theory . She has over a decade of writing consulting experience and develops strategies for effective academic communication. Publications address historical literacy practices , writing center administration , and rhetorical education , with emphasis on inclusivity and innovation. She teaches University Writing and rhetoric courses, emphasizing interdisciplinary approaches to written communication.

• Organizational Identity
• Strategic Management
• Innovation Processes
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Associate Professor David Oliver is Head of the Discipline of Strategy, Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the University of Sydney Business School. He holds a BA (Hons) from the University of Waterloo, an MBA from York University, and a PhD from the University of Lausanne. His research explores organizational identity and its strategic implications across diverse contexts such as start-ups, sharing economy platforms, and multi-stakeholder partnerships. He is a core member of the Organisational Discourse, Strategy and Change research group and sits on editorial boards for European Management Journal and m@n@gement . With over 18 peer-reviewed articles and 12 research grants, his work addresses identity practices in emergent firms, stakeholder engagement ethics, and agile strategizing. He teaches courses on strategic management, entrepreneurship, and organizational dynamics. Recent grants include studies on entrepreneurial identity development and innovation network dynamics. His research interests span organizational identity construction, strategy-as-practice frameworks, and the role of identity in innovation processes. Notable contributions include frameworks for understanding identity work in skunkworks teams and the ethical dimensions of sharing economy platforms. He actively participates in global academic networks such as the Academy of Management's Strategizing Activities and Practices Interest Group. Teaching focuses on graduate programs like the EMBA and executive education, emphasizing strategic decision-making and connected enterprise management. Professional contributions include advisory roles on stakeholder partnerships and innovation governance.

• Functional Grammar
• Discourse Semantics
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Dr Yaegan Doran is a Lecturer in the Department of Linguistics and a Research Fellow at the LCT Centre for Knowledge-Building, The University of Sydney. His work bridges Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) and Legitimation Code Theory (LCT) to explore language, semiosis, knowledge, and education. He holds a PhD from the University of Sydney and contributes to interdisciplinary research in educational linguistics, multimodality, and language and identity. Education: BA (Hons) and PhD from the University of Sydney Research: Focuses on functional grammar, discourse semantics, register, genre, semiotics and multimodality, knowledge, identity, and community Affiliations: Member of the Sydney Southeast Asia Centre Students: Supervises projects on multimodal discourse analysis, therapeutic communities, and Indonesian speakers' phonology His research emphasizes multimodal knowledge-building in science education, particularly physics and chemistry, through the interplay of language, mathematics, and images. Collaborative projects with Karl Maton and J.R. Martin address pedagogical strategies for scientific explanations and semantic profiling in history education. Selected grants include a 2011 NSW Department of Education-funded project on multimodal learning in physics. Publications span books, edited volumes, journal articles, and book chapters, with a focus on SFL methodologies and LCT applications.

• Multimodality
• Discourse Analysis
• Media Semiotics
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Ping Tian is an Honorary Associate in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Sydney. Her research focuses on multimodality, discourse analysis, media semiotics, and cross-cultural communication. She holds a BA from China, an MLitt from the University of Sydney, and a PhD from the University of Sydney. Research interests include semiotics in business communication, language and image use in media, and language and identity (especially cross-cultural dynamics). Her current project explores branding in Australian wine exports through social semiotic theory. She previously worked as a professional translator and interpreter in international trade fairs. Awards: University of Sydney Postgraduate Research Scholarship (2007-2011) Swiss National Science Foundation-funded Research Fellow (NFP 56 project, 2005-2007) Teaching & Supervision: Interested in supervising postgraduate students analyzing mass media and business communication discourses using multimodal frameworks. Current project: Multilingualism and Multimodality in Australian Wine Labels. Professional Affiliations: Member of ASFLA (Australian Systemic Functional Linguistics Association)

Volha PetukhovaView profile

Researcher

• Computational Semantics
• Dialogue Theory
• Computational Pragmatics
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Volha Petukhova is a Researcher at Saarland University, specializing in computational semantics, dialogue theory, and cognitive modeling. She contributes to ISO standards for semantic annotation frameworks (ISO 24617-2 and -5). Her work focuses on dialogue acts, multimodal communication, and argumentation systems. She has led projects like DialogBank and participated in initiatives such as METALOGUE and DBOX. She teaches courses including Multimodal Dialogue Systems and Computational Pragmatics. Her research interests include dialogue management, belief-intention representation, and context-based reasoning. She has published extensively on topics like metacognitive event classification, argument quality assessment, and negotiation strategies. Her recent projects involve personalized health intervention messages and customer-oriented dialogue analysis. She has advised numerous students on topics like negotiation outcome prediction, argument generation, and multimodal depression detection. She collaborates on creating annotated dialogue corpora, such as the DBOX and Metalogue Debate Trainee Corpus. Her work bridges theoretical dialogue semantics with practical applications in healthcare and education.

Michael SchoberView profile

Professor

• Psychology
• Linguistics
• Human-Computer Interaction
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Michael Schober is a Professor of Psychology at The New School and Senior Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs. He holds a PhD from Stanford University (1990) and a Sc.B. from Brown University (1986). His research bridges psychology, linguistics, human-computer interaction, music, and design, focusing on coordinated action, cognitive processes, and technology-mediated collaboration. He previously served as Dean of the New School for Social Research (2006–2013) and as editor of Discourse Processes (2005–2015). Major research themes include survey methodology innovations, jazz improvisation coordination, virtual collaboration interfaces, and audience-performer dynamics. He co-developed influential frameworks for analyzing conceptual misalignment in survey interactions and received the 2013 Warren J. Mitofsky Innovators Award for advancing survey research methods. His work often involves interdisciplinary collaborations, such as with Frederick G. Conrad at the University of Michigan. Teaching spans graduate/undergraduate courses in psycholinguistics, research methods, and psychology of music. Current roles include overseeing faculty affairs and guiding institutional academic strategy. His portfolio http://www.mfschober.net showcases ongoing projects in music cognition and technology-enhanced communication.

Selena Van HornView profile

Assistant Professor

• Social Justice in Education
• LGBTQ+ Education
• Literacy Instruction
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Dr. Selena E. Van Horn (she/her/hers) is an Assistant Professor in the Liberal Studies Department at California State University, Fresno, within the Kremen School of Education and Human Development. She also serves as a core faculty member in the Doctoral Program in Educational Leadership. Ph.D. in Learning, Teaching, & Curriculum (University of Missouri, 2016) Master of Arts in Education: Learning, Teaching, & Curriculum (University of Missouri, 2012) B.A. in Spanish Education (University of Missouri-Kansas City, 2009) Dr. Van Horn’s research centers on equity, social justice, and activism in education, with a focus on LGBTQ+ literature, queer pedagogy, and literacy-social studies integrated curriculum. She employs qualitative methodologies such as Participatory Action Research (PAR), Youth PAR (YPAR), arts-based approaches (photovoice, filmmaking), critical discourse analysis, and post-qualitative theories. Her work highlights trends in critical literacy, equity-driven pedagogy, and the use of multimodal and arts-based methods to challenge heteronormativity and promote inclusive education. Key subfields across her publications include social justice, LGBTQ+ inclusion, curriculum design, and discourse analysis. As faculty advisor for the Fresno State Student California Teacher Association (SCTA), Dr. Van Horn mentors future educators in organizing and advocating for social justice in K-12 settings.

• Translation Studies
• Linguistics
• Media Accessibility
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Francesca Raffi is an Associate Professor of English Language and Translation at the University of Macerata (Italy) and Honorary Fellow at the University of Liverpool (UK). She holds a PhD in English for Special Purposes from the University of Naples 'Federico II' and has conducted research at institutions including the University of Roehampton (UK). Her academic career includes roles as Senior Assistant Professor (2020-2023) and Post-Doctoral Researcher (2018-2019). Research: Focuses on re(translation), linguistic/sensorial accessibility (including intersemiotic translation), and reception studies of translated media. Key projects include leadership of the UNITE project (AI-powered language learning) and participation in UPSKILLS (curriculum development for linguistics students). She has contributed to FACS (museum accessibility model) and InclusivOpera (cultural impact studies). Teaching: Teaches at undergraduate/graduate levels in Italy and abroad, including courses on audiovisual translation, media interpreting, and translation technologies. Supervised 187 theses across BA/Master's levels. Publications: Over 30 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters on topics like AI in education, subtitling pedagogy, and accessibility practices. Editor for BRIDGE: Trends and Traditions in Translation and Interpreting Studies and ECHO journal. Affiliations: Member of AIA, EST, IATIS, and SUBTLE. Involved in interdisciplinary initiatives bridging translation studies, technology, and cultural heritage preservation.

• Qualitative Research Methods
• Medical Education
• Digital Communication
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Dr Dorottya Cserzo is a Researcher at Cardiff University, affiliated with the School of Social Sciences and the Children's Social Care Research and Development Centre (CASCADE). Her current roles include leading projects on social work-parent meetings and evaluating outcomes for criminally exploited children, funded by Health and Care Research Wales. She specializes in qualitative methods such as multimodal discourse analysis and has contributed to medical education and digital communication research. Education: PhD in Language and Communication (Cardiff University, 2019) MA in Applied Linguistics (Cardiff University, 2012) BA in English and American Studies (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, 2011) Research Interests: Qualitative research methods, medical education, digital communication, social care, child criminal exploitation, and healthcare professions regulation. Her work emphasizes multimodal discourse analysis and interprofessional collaboration in clinical practice. Awards: Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy (2022) Teaching & Supervision: Contributes to teaching qualitative methods in the School of Social Sciences. Supervises undergraduate and postgraduate dissertations in social sciences, medical education, and language/communication studies. Available as a second/third supervisor for PhD students focused on research methods. Labs/Teams: CASCADE and the Cardiff Unit for Research and Evaluation in Medical and Dental Education (CUREMeDE). Collaborates with professionals in social care, healthcare, and education to develop practical tools for child welfare and healthcare training.

Giovanni RossiView profile

Associate Professor

• Conversation Analysis
• Pragmatics
• Social Interaction
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Giovanni Rossi is an Associate Professor and Vice Chair in the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). His research focuses on human language and gesture as systems of social interaction, exploring both universal and culturally specific features across linguistic and social contexts. He holds a PhD in Social Science from the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics/Radboud University Nijmegen (2015), an MA in Linguistics from Radboud University Nijmegen (2010), and a BA in Linguistics from the University of Bologna (2009). His research interests include conversation analysis, pragmatics, and the cross-cultural study of interactional systems. He has contributed to understanding how prosody, grammar, and social agency shape communication, particularly in multilingual and multicultural settings. Notable work includes studies on requesting systems in Italian, pragmatic typology, and the role of visual and verbal cues in repair sequences. Dr. Rossi’s publications reflect a focus on interactional universals and cultural diversity, with recent work analyzing recruitment sequences, the Parallel European Corpus of Informal Interaction (PECII), and the sociolinguistics of gratitude expression. His 2018 award from the International Society for Conversation Analysis recognizes his dissertation on pre-request sequences in Italian. While no advising or grant details are provided, his work frequently involves collaborative research projects, such as the PECII initiative. His contributions extend to methodological advancements in coding interactional sequences and analyzing cross-linguistic phenomena.

• Modality
• Evidentiality
• Evaluative Language
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Marta Carretero Lapeyre is a Full Professor at the Complutense University of Madrid, specializing in the Department of English Studies, Linguistics and Literature. Her research focuses on modality, evidentiality, and evaluative language in English and contrastive studies, alongside syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic analysis of noun phrases. Supervised 3 PhD dissertations Co-supervised 2 PhD dissertations Currently supervising 1 PhD dissertation Her work spans corpus linguistics, pragmatics, and digital communication. Recent publications address topics like machine learning applications in modal analysis, cross-linguistic pragmatic markers, and epistemic stance in pandemic discourse. She welcomes proposals on pragmatics, corpus linguistics, and digital communication research. Email: mcarrete@filol.ucm.es

• Translation Technologies
• Machine Translation
• Post-editing Evaluation
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Mihaela Vela is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Language Science and Technology at Saarland University. Her research focuses on machine translation evaluation, post-editing strategies, and translation technologies. Prior to her academic role, she worked as a researcher at the Language Technology Lab of DFKI (2007–2011), contributing to projects like ontology schema extraction from financial news. She holds a PhD in Computational Linguistics (2011) from Saarland University, supervised by Hans Uszkoreit and Thierry Declerck, and a Licentiate degree in Linguistics from West University of Timisoara. Her teaching portfolio includes courses such as Translation and Content Management , Applied Language Technologies , and Machine Translation , reflecting her expertise in integrating computational methods with translation practice. She has developed tools like TeLeMaCo (a collaborative teaching repository) and Catalog (a post-editing interface). Her work emphasizes improving translation workflows through better CAT tool design, metadata preservation, and cognitive load analysis in post-editing tasks. Key contributions include the SubCo corpus of learner translations and studies on post-editing effort in low-resource languages. Her research bridges theoretical linguistics with practical applications, addressing challenges in legal text classification, parliamentary discourse analysis, and neural post-editing systems.

Jan BaetensView profile

Professor

• Photography theory
• Cultural studies
• Literary theory
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Jan Baetens, born in 1957, is a Full Professor at KU Leuven (Belgium) since 2009, specializing in cultural studies with a focus on visual narratives, photography theory, and constrained writing. He directs the university's cultural studies program and collaborates with the Lieven Gevaert Centre for Photography and Visual Studies. Fields of expertise: Contemporary French poetry, Photography theory, Minor visual genres Editorial roles: Founder of journals Formules , FPC , and Image (&) Narrative His research explores the intersection of literary theory and visual culture, emphasizing semiotic analysis and interdisciplinary approaches. Publications analyze hybrid genres like photographic novels, graphic novels, and novelizations, with a particular focus on formal constraints in creative processes. Key research trends include: Photography's role in literary and cultural analysis Methodological innovations in cultural studies Abstraction in comics and visual narratives Intermedial relationships between film and literature Scientific contributions: 2007 - Prix triennal de poésie de la Communauté française de Belgique 2007-2008 - Francqui Chair in Culture and Communication He has published over 40 volumes and 400 articles, with recent work examining minor visual genres, abstract storytelling, and the semiotic dimensions of cultural and literary practices.

• Respiratory Medicine
• Infectious Diseases
• Critical Care Medicine
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Haris Zia, MD is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Internal Medicine at the University of Kentucky's College of Medicine. He is affiliated with the Hospital Medicine division within Internal Medicine. His research focuses on critical care medicine, respiratory infections, and diagnostic challenges in pulmonary pathology, with a particular emphasis on microbial genomics and inflammatory subphenotypes in critically ill patients. His work explores disparities in acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) outcomes across demographic groups and investigates novel diagnostic approaches using metagenomic sequencing for severe pneumonia and fungal infections. He has published extensively on case studies involving rare conditions such as malignant urinothorax, tick-borne alpha-gal syndrome, and disseminated blastomycosis mimicking malignancy. Zia's articles highlight innovative endoscopic treatments for tracheoesophageal fistulas and address complex cases like cystic fibrosis exacerbations in gender-affirmed patients. His research integrates microbial cell-free DNA analysis with host-response profiling to improve diagnostic accuracy in critical illness. No scientific awards were explicitly noted in the provided texts. His clinical work bridges hospital medicine with advanced diagnostic methodologies, contributing to both clinical practice and academic discourse in pulmonary and critical care medicine.

• Applied Linguistics
• Language Education
• Global Englishes
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Andrew Pollard is a Senior Lecturer in English Language and Linguistics and Course Coordinator of the Master of Applied Linguistics at the Faculty of Arts and Society. His research focuses on global Englishes, English as a lingua franca, and their pedagogical applications in ASEAN+3 contexts. He investigates prosodic features of English varieties, oral corrective feedback, and language policy in EMI institutions. His teaching spans applied linguistics and education, covering global Englishes, language testing, and curriculum design. Key research projects include a 2021 study on multimodal academic literacy support videos (discourse analysis) and pandemic-driven shifts to online learning. His articles explore corrective feedback paradigms, mobile-assisted learning, and EMI contexts. He serves on editorial boards for journals like Australian Review of Applied Linguistics and Asian EFL Journal . Supervises postgraduate research and contributes to teacher training initiatives. Research trends emphasize technology integration (CALL-MALL), pandemic impacts on education, and meaning-oriented pedagogy. No scientific awards listed, but active in grant-funded projects. Advises on EAP curriculum design and academic literacy programs.