Lucia LA CAUSA
Lucia La Causa holds an MA in Comparative Languages and Literatures and a PhD in Interpretation Studies. She worked as a Research Fellow at the Department of Humanities of the University of Catania for four years. She is currently an Adjunct Professor of English Linguistics and Communication 1 at the Department of Humanities and of Business English at the Department of Economics. In addition, she serves as Senior Tutor for the courses English Language and Translation 1 and English Language and Translation 2.
Her research interests focus on English sociolinguistics, with particular attention to World Englishes, intercultural pragmatics, contact literature, audiovisual translation (AVT), and critical discourse analysis, especially from multimodal and feminist perspectives.
She has presented her research at numerous national and international conferences.
- Adjunct Professor of English Language and Communication 1 (BA Programme in Communication Studies – L-20)
- Adjunct Professor of Business English (Master’s Degree Programme in Business Administration – LM-77)
- Adjunct Professor of English Language (B1 Level, 3 ECTS Credits)
- Research Fellow
- Senior Tutor for English Language and Translation 1 and English Language and Translation 2 (BA Programme in Modern Languages – L-11)
- PhD in Interpretation Studies
- Tenured Teacher of English Language in Upper Secondary Education (AB24)
- Qualified Teacher of English Language in Lower Secondary Education (AB25)
- MA in Comparative Languages and Literatures, University of Catania
- BA in European Languages and Cultures, University of Catania
- English Linguistics
- English Sociolinguistics
- World Englishes
- Intercultural Pragmatics
- Contact Literature
- Audiovisual Discourses and Translation (AVT)
- (Multimodal) Critical Discourse Studies
- Feminist Critical Discourse Studies
- Language and Diversity
- English Language Teaching and Learning