Marco VENUTI

Assistant Professor of English language, translation and linguistic [ANGL-01/C]

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Office: 110
Email: marco.venuti@unict.it
Phone: 0957102229
Web Site: unict.academia.edu/MarcoVenuti

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Marco Venuti, PhD in ESP at the Università di Napoli Federico II, is a tenured Researcher in English Linguistics at the Department of Humanities, Università di Catania, where he teaches Corpus Linguistics and ESP modules.

He is a founding member of the I-LanD (Identity Language and Diversity) inter-university Research Centre, as well as a founding member of the CInUm (Centro di Informatica Umanistica) and of the Neuro Humanities Research Centre at the University of Catania. He is currently the Department delegate to the coordination of research in Digital Humanities and Digital Sociology as well as a member of the Department Commission on Research activities.

He has recently been the P.I. of an interdepartmental and interdisciplinary project on Online Journalism (2020-2024), and is at present the Department PI of and interdepartmental research project on Crisis in/of Democracy, coordinating research on populism and the use of social media platforms.

His research interests focus on Critical Discourse Analysis, Corpus Assisted Discourse Studies, News Discourse, Political Discourse, Institutional Discourse, the role of Social Media in the public sphere, and the relationship between language and gender.

Tenured researcher in English Linguistics startin November 2014 at Dipartimento di Scienze Umanistiche, Università degli Studi di Catania

Tenured researcher in English Linguistics startin November 2014 at Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II

Post-doc, September 2005 - October 2006 at Dipartimento di Scienze Statistiche – Sezione Linguistica, 'Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, on TEI Coding and corpora creation on the 2003 Iraqi war.

PhD in Lingua Inglese per Scopi Specifici. Thesis title The Economist, The Financial Times And The Euro: A Corpus-Based Approach To The Analysis Of Metaphors.

MA in Traduzione del Testo Letterario Inglese at the Istituto Universitario Suor Orsola Benincasa, 1999/2000.

MA in Lingue e Letterature Straniere Moderne at the Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II. Dissertation title Narrazione, musica e oralità nei romanzi di Toni Morrison.

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