Cassi Liardet

Cassi Liardet is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Linguistics at Macquarie University. Her research focuses on academic literacy, research communication, and Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL), with particular emphasis on grammatical metaphor and English Medium Instruction (EMI). She has developed the Macquarie Longitudinal Learner Corpus (MQLLC) and leads the ongoing 'Benchmarking Success' project exploring undergraduate writing assessment criteria. Cassi currently supervises PhD students researching Twitter discourse, EFL writing pedagogy, and co-authorship practices. She serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Second Language Writing.

Her research spans corpus linguistics applications, doctoral pedagogy, and cross-cultural academic writing challenges. Recent projects include examining thesis-by-publication practices and EMI implementation in Lebanon. Cassi has supervised over 15 graduate students since 2016, with completions focusing on Japanese scientists' ERPP, Saudi Arabian medical EMI, and Indonesian EFL learners' grammatical metaphor development. Active research collaborations include Australian PhD thesis dynamics and global academic discourse analysis.