RUSSO KATHERINE ELIZABETH

Katherine Elizabeth Russo (PhD, University of New South Wales, Sydney)
Professoressa Ordinaria in Lingua e Traduzione - Inglese (L-Lin/12)
Dipartimento di studi letterari, linguistici e comparati
Università di Napoli “L’Orientale
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1807-8693

Delegata del Rettore all'Orientamento e Tutorato
Delegata del Rettore alla Disabilità e D.S.A.

Bionote:
Katherine E. Russo, PhD University of New South Wales (Sydney), is Full Professor in English Language, Linguistics and Translation at the University of Naples L’Orientale. Her research ranges across the fields of Critical Discourse Studies, World Englishes, Audio-visual/Translation Studies, Post-colonial, Whiteness and Gender Studies. Her recent research centers on Freedom of Movement, Climate Change and Climate-induced Migration Discourse, Hate Speech in Crisis Discourse, Populist Discourse, and Social-media Activism Discourse. She has published numerous articles, chapters and edited volumes, among which “The Representation of ‘Exceptional Migrants’ in Media Discourse: The Case of Climate-induced Migration” (with Ruth Wodak, 2017). She is the author of Practices of Proximity: The Appropriation of English in Australian Indigenous Literature (2010), which won the ESSE Book Award in 2012, Global English, Transnational Flows: Australia and New Zealand in Translation (2012) and The Evaluation of Risk in Institutional and Newspaper Discourse: the Case of Climate Change and Migration (2018).
She has been a member of the Management Committee of the European Programme - COST Action IS1101 “Climate change and migration: knowledge, law and policy, and theory” and has participated as a researcher in several European Funded Projects (Tempus Project – TETRAI and the Erasmus + Projects SBATEYL and FOM@Play).
She is the PI of the University of Naples L’Orientale local unit of the European Key Action 2 Programme “Freedom of movement at play: EU citizens' identity and transnational discourses” and Director of the Interuniversity Research Centre Dis4Change: Studies on Climate Change and Environmental Discourse.