Francesca Maria VIGO

Francesca Vigo lectures in English Language and Linguistics at the University of Catania, DISUM. She holds a PhD in English and Anglo-American Studies, a Diploma in Social Communications, an MA in Applied Linguistics and a Post-graduate diploma in Literary Translation.  Her main research fields focus on Sociolinguistics, Language and Gender Studies, Diversity narratives, Language contact, Pragmatics in multilingual contexts, World Englishes, and Translation. Lately, she has focused on migrant and migration narratives, imagery as a category of meaning construction, and social attitudes construction towards LGBTIs. She has extensively published in national and international publications on these topics. She is the thev national PI of the PRIN project The eco-friendly flexible teaching Model (EFFTMod). A survey of existing experiences for the creation of a good practice network, she was also PI of other research project. She is in the University Panel for Quality Assessment.