Paola Giorgis holds a BA and MA in English and North-American Literature and Studies and a PhD in Anthropology of Education and Intercultural Education. She has also had training in Critical Socio-linguistics and in the rhetorical strategies of persuasion and manipulation in contemporary public debates. Her main interest regards a critical, intercultural and interdisciplinary approach to (foreign) languages able to develop an awareness on how words are used and mobilized in education and public discourse, and how they can both serve processes of manipulation and domination, as well as of empowerment and emancipation. She has published two monographs, several articles, chapters in collective works and has participated to many international conferences. She is co-founder and member of wom.an.ed (women’s studies in anthropology and education), and is affiliated to several international associations of Linguistics and Intercultural Studies. Her most recent publication (2018) is Meeting Foreignness. Foreign Language and Foreign Language Education as Critical and Intercultural Experiences. Boulder CO, New York NY: Lexington, Rowman & Littlefield. She teaches English, Literature and Visual Arts.

Email: paola.giorgis@womaned.org