Daniela Cesiri

Daniela Cesiri is an Associate Professor at Ca' Foscari University of Venice, affiliated with the Department of Comparative Linguistic and Cultural Studies. Her research focuses on English for Specific and Academic Purposes, tourism language, corpus linguistics, and historical linguistics with a specialization in Irish English. She holds a PhD in English Historical Linguistics from the University of Salento (2008) and has conducted postdoctoral research on 19th-century Irish English. Her work bridges historical and applied linguistics, examining discourse structures in scientific popularization, food communication, and political rhetoric.

Teaching responsibilities include courses on English language and translation at both undergraduate and graduate levels. She supervises students in thesis projects related to linguistic analysis and cultural communication. Active in national and international research networks, she coordinates projects like DIETALY (MIUR-funded) and participates in initiatives such as the PRIN 2008 project on scientific discourse evolution.

• Research Areas: Food discourse analysis, tourism communication, metaphor use in political speeches, Irish English diachronics
• Recent Projects: 'Food-Related Communication for Children in English,' 'Translating Tourism and Cultural Heritage'
• Grants: FFABR 2017 (MIUR), Sapienza University of Rome's HUMANE-BIZCOMM-MODEL project

Her work has been published in journals like IPERSTORIA, Childhood in the Past, and Poetics. She serves on editorial boards for linguistic journals and is a peer reviewer for national/international funding bodies.