Francesca Coccetta

Francesca Coccetta is an Associate Professor at Ca' Foscari University of Venice, affiliated with the Department of Comparative Linguistic and Cultural Studies and the Interdepartmental Center SELISI in Treviso. Her research focuses on Multimodal Discourse Analysis, Corpus Linguistics, and English Language Teaching with a specialization in Scientific and Medical Discourse. She teaches multimodal analysis and translation across various degree programs including Medicine, International Economics, and Communication Studies.

Recent publications analyze video abstracts (2024-2022) as emerging academic genres, with methodological frameworks for multimodal corpus construction and phase-based structural analysis. Her work extends to medical communication and cultural discourse studies, including European Capital of Culture promotional materials and Twilight Saga narrative analysis. She employs data-driven learning and intersemiotic competence frameworks in educational contexts.

Active in international research projects like the Living Knowledge EU initiative (2009-2011) and PRIN (2005-2007), she has presented at conferences including EUROCALL, Learner Corpus Research Conference, and International Symposium on Multimodal Environments. Her academic career includes visiting positions at University of Sydney (2018) and Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (2020) under Erasmus+ mobility programs.