About us

Organisation


Executive Board

President– Cornelia Ilie

Professor of Linguistics and Rhetoric, Strömstad Academy, Sweden
Visiting Professor, Hellenic American University, Athens, Greece (2017–)
Founder and President of ESTIDIA (European Society for Transcultural and Interdisciplinary Dialogue)

Advisory Board

Diana Boxer, University of Florida, USA
Donal Carbaugh, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA
Marcelo Dascal + , Tel Aviv University, Israel
Bart Garssen, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Claire Kramsch, UC Berkeley, USA
Ivanka Mavrodieva, Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”, Bulgaria
Itesh Sachdev, University of London, UK
Stephanie Schnurr, University of Warwick, UK
Arie Sover, The Open University of Israel, Israel
Hiromasa Tanaka, Meisei University, Japan
Anna Triandafyllidou, European University Institute, Florence, Italy
Jef Verschueren, University of Antwerp, Belgium
Ruth Wodak, Lancaster University, UK
Francisco Yus, University of Alicante, Spain


Founding members

Sedef Algi – Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey
Elena Buja – ”Transilvania” University of Brasov, Romania
Costanza Cucchi – Catholic University, Milan, Italy
Elena Gheorghita – State University of Moldova, Chisinau, Moldova
Cornelia Ilie – Malmö University, Sweden
Izabela Lazar – University of British Colombia, Vancouver, Canada
Adrian Lesenciuc – “Henri Coanda” Air Force Academy, Brasov, Romania
Raluca Mihaela Levonian – University of Bucharest, Romania / University of Calabria, Italy
Malcolm MacDonald – University of Warwick, UK
John McKeown – MEF International School Istanbul, Turkey
Esther Pascual – Shanghai International Studies University, China
Angel Raluy – University of Vic, Barcelona, Spain
Daniela Roventa-Frumusani – Bucharest University, Romania
Hussain Al Sharoufi – Gulf University for Science and Technology, Kuwait
Mariselda Tessarolo – University of Padua, Italy


Website and Social Media Manager 

Valentin Vanghelescu – University of Bucharest, Romania

Website Volunteer 

Ksenia Wróblewska – University of Warsaw, Poland