Catherine Elizabeth Riley

Catherine Elizabeth Riley is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Humanities and Assistant Professor at the School of International Studies at the University of Trento. Her work bridges Higher Education, Language Education, and Intercultural Communication, with a focus on quality assurance, stakeholder engagement, and pedagogical innovation.

• Research Interests: Quality culture in higher education, CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning), language policy, student-centered syllabus design, intercultural competence, and European educational frameworks.
• Publications: Recent work includes a 2024 study on quality culture development in higher education and a 2017 edited volume on intercultural language teaching practices.
• Expertise: Critical discourse analysis, language policy, international relations, and translation studies.