Background

I have an MA in English Language and Literature from The Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil; a Diploma in the Teaching of English Overseas (Dip.TEO) from the University of Manchester, and a Ph.D. in English from The University of Birmingham. I was formerly Professor of English Language and Applied Linguistics at the Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil where I taught for many years.

Teaching

The courses I teach are: Discourse, Culture and Communication, Media Language, Language and Gender, Narrative Analysis, and Translation Studies. I am the academic tutor for the MA programme in Translation Studies at CELS and I also convene the new MA programme in Critical Discourse, Culture and Communication, also at CELS.

Research

My research focuses on the critical analysis of a variety of texts. I am currently investigating how identities are construed semiotically in discourse and how multi-modes of communication contribute to the overall meanings of texts. A particular interest is the question of how gender and cultural representations are realised in the discourse of the media and in new technologies.

Conferences

I have presented some 80 papers at conferences in Argentina, Australia, Austria, Brazil, Britain, Chile, Cyprus, Denmark, Finland, Hungary, Italy, Ireland, Japan, Mexico, Spain, Sweden, The Netherlands USA.

I was involved in the organization of the following conferences in Birmingham:

• Critical Discourse Analysis Seminar – Birmingham , 6-7/4/1999. (50 participants)
• (with M. Toolan and Rosamund Moon) of the Pala (Poetics and Linguistics ) Conference, University of Birmingham , 4-7/4/2002 (120 participants)
• BAAL (British Applied Linguistics ) Seminar – Directions in Multimodal Research, 9/05/2005 , (30 partipants)
• (with Helen Sauntson) BAAL (British Applied Linguistics) Seminar 'Theoretical and Methodological Approaches to Gender and Language Study', 18/11/05 (40 participants).
• Critical Discourse Analysis Seminar – Birmingham , 7-9/6/2007. (40 participants).

These are my other relevant activities:

• Convenor of the Scientific Commission of Discourse Analysis, AILA (International Association of Applied Linguistics) (elected in August 1999).
• Referee for Abstracts for the Commission of Discourse Analysis, AILA (International Association of Applied Linguistics ) for 2005 Conference
• Member of Executive Committee the British Association of Applied Linguistics from September 2002/2003.
• Reviews Editor of The Journal of Visual Communication , London : Sage, 2001, 2002.
• Debates and Correspondence Editor , Critical Discourse Studies Journal , London , Routledge, from 2003.

Selected publications

• Language and Gender (Editora Atica, Brazil, 1991).
• Translation: Theory and Practice (ed with M Coulthard), Federal University of Santa Catarina Press, Brazil, 1991.
• News as Social Practice (Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil, 1997);
• Texts and Practices: Reading in Critical Discourse Analysis (ed with M Coulthard), (Routledge, 1996, which was one of the first collections in Critical Discourse Analysis);
• Revista Ibero Americana de Discurso y Sociedad, special issue on Language and Gender (ed with Luiza M Rojo), Madrid : Editora Gedisa, June, 1999.
• Social Semiotics – Special Issue – Critical Social Semiotics (ed with Theo Van Leeuwen), 2003, 13/1, London : Carfax.
• The Writer's Craft, the Cultures' Technology, (ed with Michael Toolan), Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2005.
• (with D. Figueiredo) Special Issue - Critical Discourse Analyses: Textual and Discursive Perspectives (Análises Críticas: Perspectivas Textuais e Discursivas), Journal Language in Discourse - Linguagem em (Dis)curso (Language in Discourse), Editora da UNISUL – Tubarão, Santa Catarina, Brazil, 2005
• Desvendando Discursos (ed with Leonor Scliar Cabral). Florianópolis: Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil, 2007.
• Identity Trouble: Critical Discourse and Contested Identities, (ed with Rick Iedema), London : Palgrave, forthcoming.