Curriculum

Curriculum

- Current position: Full Professor, SSD: L-LIN/12 (English Language and Translation), From 11.11.2017-present. University of Messina. Dipartimento Civiltà Antiche e Moderne.
- Awarded habilitation for Full Professorship from 20.07.2017, SSD L-LIN/12. 
- Previous position: Associate Professor, SSD: L-LIN/12 (English Language and Translation), 11.11.2017-10.01.2021. 


FUNDED RESEARCH PROJECTS AS PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR 

1) “EU-MADE4LL: European Multimodal and Digital Education for
Language Learning”.
Start: 01-09-2016 - End: 31-08-2019
Project Reference: 2016-1-IT02-KA203-024087
Programme: Erasmus+
Key Action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices
Action Type: Strategic Partnerships for higher education
Partners: 1) Università di Messina, 2) Università di Roma Tor Vergata, 3) L3S Leibniz Universität (Germany), 4) Aarhus Universitet (Denmark), 5) Università di Firenze, 6) University of Leeds (UK), 7) Rocca Creative Thinking (Sheffield, UK).
EU grant: 436853 EUR

2) “Modelli di interazione verbale e non verbale nella testualità del Web 2.0.” PRA 2008/2009 (University of Messina)
Project reference: ORME09LP9S

3) “Il blog fra oralità e scrittura: un’analisi sui markers modali nella lingua inglese." PRA 2006/2007 (University of Messina)
Preject reference: ORME07MJZP

4) "S.E.L.E.: Scientific English Learning Environment" (2005-2006), University of Messina

FUNDED RESEARCH PROJECTS AS ASSOCIATE

1) “ACT - Access through Text - Accessibilità mediata dai testi”.
PI: Anthony Baldry. PRIN 2009 (National research project).
Project reference: 2009RL3NF4_001 
Start date: 17/10/2011 - End date: 17/10/2013
Duration: 24 months 

RESEARCH INTERESTS
She has extensively published on multimodal discourse studies and digital textuality (c. 80 publications). In particular, her research strands can be divided along three main lines:
- Theoretical analysis of meaning-making and semiosis of communication from a multimodal perspective within the framework of systemic-functional grammar;
- Empirical studies blending qualitative and quantitative methodologies, respectively grounded on corpus linguistics with a focus on keyness analysis for verbal data and on critical multimodal discourse studies for visual data;
- Development of heuristics to unpack and analyse interactional phenomena typical of digital environments, with specific reference to video-mediated communication and blogging and with a focus on the interplay of spoken and written discourse in digital environments (i.e. mode-switching) and how language and other meaning-making systems, including but not limited to visuals, are interlaced in mediated digital contexts. 

RESEARCH ACTIVITIES IN INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH GROUPS

1) Research group on multimodality and semiosis of communication with Kay L. O'Halloran (Curtin University) and Janina Wildfeuer (Bremen University)
2) Research group coordinated by Harvard University on Creole languages and culture for "Dictionary of Caribbean and Afro-Latin American Biography", (Oxford University Press, 2016). 
2) Co-leader in a research group on “Testing and assessment” for the European Association CERCLES (Confédération Européenne des Centres de Langues de l'Enseignement Supérieur), 2009-2011.



EDITORIAL ACTIVITIES AND PEER REVIEWING

- Advisory board for "Teaching English with Technology" (ISSN: 1642-1027), 2014-present
- Peer reviewer for "System: An International Journal of Educational Technology and Applied Linguistics" (Elsevier, ISSN: 0346-251X).
- Peer reviewer for "CALL Computer Assisted Language Learning"
(Routledge), 2016-present. 
- Peer reviewer for "Cultus. The Journal of Intercultural Mediation and Communication" (ISSN 2035-2948), 2016-present.
- Peer reviewer for VQR 2011-2014 - GEV 10, 2016. 
- Peer reviewer for "Hermes. Journal of Language and Communication in Business" (ISSN 1903-1785), 2016-present.
- Peer reviewer for REPRISE, 2015-present. 
- Peer reviewer for "Ikala, Journal of Language and Culture" (ISSN: 0123-3432), 2015-present.
- Peer reviewer for "Corpora" (Print ISSN: 1749-5032 Online ISSN: 1755-1676), 2015-present.
- Editor-in-chief for “Quaderni di Ricerca del Centro Linguistico d’Ateneo Messinese”, 2007-2012.
- Peer reviewer for PRIN projects, 2012-present. 

CONFERENCE PROGRAMME COMMITTE and CONFERENCE REVIEWING ACTIVITIES

- Reviewer for BAAL 2017, British Association for Applied Linguistics.
- Advisory board and reviewer for “Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis Across Disciplines”, CADAAD 2016
- Reviewer for ICOM 2016, 2017
- Reviewer for “The 8th International Conference on Society and Information Technologies: ICSIT 2017”, Orlando (USA).
- Reviewer for “The 7th International Conference on Society and Information Technologies: ICSIT 2016”, Orlando (USA).
- Program Committee Mis4TEL 2015, Methodologies and Intelligent Systems for Technology Enhanced Learning, University of Salamanca.
- Reviewer for "The 6th International Conference on Society and Information Technologies: ICSIT 2015", Orlando (USA).
- Reviewer for "The 5th International Conference on Society and Information Technologies: ICSIT 2014", Orlando (USA).
- Program Committee Mis4TEL 2014, Methodologies and Intelligent Systems for Technology Enhanced Learning, University of Salamanca.
- Program Committee Ebutel 2013, 3rd International Workshop on Evidence Based and User centred Technology Enhanced Learning, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento.
- Program Committee ebTEL 2013, 2nd International Workshop on evidenced-based Technology Enhanced Learning, University of Salamanca.
- Program Committee ebTEL 2012, 1st International Workshop on evidenced-based Technology Enhanced Learning, University of Salamanca.
- Reviewer for “The 8th International Conference on Education and Information Systems, Technologies and Applications, EISTA 2010”, Orlando (USA). 
- Reviewer for “The 4th International Multi-Conference on Society, Cybernetics and Informatics: IMSCI 2010” Orlando (USA).
- Reviewer for “The 2nd International Conference on Society and Information Technologies: ICSIT 2011” Orlando (USA).
- Reviewer for “The 9th International Conference on Education and Information Systems, Technologies and Applications, EISTA 2011”, Orlando (USA).

INSTITUTIONAL ACTIVITIES

- Coordinator for the BA in "Foreign Languages, Literatures and Language Mediation" at the University of Messina, 2016-present
- Member of Commissione paritetica, Department of ancient and modern civilisation, University of Messina, 2013-2016. 
- Advisory board for University Language Centre, University of Messina, 2010-2013.
- Coordinator of the University Language Centre, University of Messina, 2004-2006. 


ADVISORY BOARD and MENTORING of PhD programs


- Advisory board for PhD in "History of Mediterranean Europe. culture, Society, Institutions. Centuries XV-XX", strand: English language and linguistics, 2011-2015.
- Mentoring for the University of Milan, Italy, PhD in Information Technologies, 2008-2009. 
- External examiner for a PhD Degree in "Doctor of Philosohy" at the Faculty of Humanities, Department of English Language and Literature, University of Haifa, 2015. Title of the dissertation: "Interaction management in recreational video-mediated communication: Participation, multi activities, and visual playfulness in multiparty Google+ Hangouts". 

FELLOWSHIP

Visiting Academic, Centre for Multimodal Studies, Institute of Education, University of London, London, UK, 2010. 

AWARDS

2016 AIA Book Prize for a monograph in the field of English Language and Linguistics (years 2013-2016). 

MAIN PLENARIES/INVITED SPEAKER/INVITED PANELS

- Research talk "'This is chaos, baby'! Epistemologies, transcription methods and research agendas in video-mediated communication" at "The Multimodality Satellite of Language@Leeds", University of Leeds, 23 November 2018. 
- Invited plenarist at the Ecole Normale Superiére, Université Lyon 2, Laboratoire ICAR for the international Conference “Multimodality, temporality and multimodal corpora”, 16-18 February 2017.
- Invited panelist at the Symposium “Digital language research: from practices to critical awareness for the digital age” (Convenor: Jannis Androutsopoulos, Universität Hamburg, Germany), 18th World Congress AILA 2017 (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), “Innovation and Epistemological Challenges in Applied Linguistics”, 23-28 July 2017.
- Panel convenor "Multimodal resemiotisations across media: unpacking meanings and unveiling ideologies". (Convenors Maria Grazia Sindoni and Sandra Petroni; discussant Kay L. O’Halloran), University of Catania, 6th International Conference on Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis Across Disciplines, 5-7 September 2016. 
- Panel convenor "The invention of migration" (Convenors: Lorenzo Casini and Maria Grazia Sindoni; Discussant: Mirella Cassarino), XIII Conference “Migrants, Communities, Borders, Memories, Conflicts”, SeSaMo, Università di Catania, 17-19 March 2016.
- Invited speaker “Migrants are like cockroaches”. The language of othering in the British media", XIII Conference “Migrants, Communities, Borders, Memories, Conflicts”, SeSaMo, Università di Catania, 17-19 March 2016.
- Invited speaker "The language of migration: naming and understanding the 'other' across media", at the Workshop “Dislocating People(s) and Cultures”, Università degli studi di Napoli “Federico II”, 21 January 2016.
- Invited panelist, with "Multimodal corpus analysis of digital video data: Issues, challenges and potentialities", for the panel “Analysing multimodal digital discourse. Methodological foundations, methodological approaches and research practices for studying discourse in convergent media” (Convenors Christian Pentzold, Vivien Sommer), 1st International Conference “Approaches to Digital Discourse Analysis”, University of Valencia, 18-20 November 2015.

H-INDEX: 10
RG SCORE: 16.83

ASSOCIATION MEMBERSHIP

- ISFLA - International Systemic Functional Linguistics Association
- IATIS - International Association for Translation and Intercultural Studies
- AIA - Associazione Italiana Anglistica
- ESSE - European Society for the Study of English
- AISCLI - Associazione Italiana di Studi sulle Culture e Letterature di Lingua Inglese