Katherine E. russo

Katherine E. Russo, PhD University of New South Wales (Sydney), is Associate Professor of English and Translation at the University of Naples L’Orientale. Her research ranges across the fields of Critical Discourse Analysis, World Englishes, Audio-visual/Translation Studies, Post-colonial, Whiteness and Gender Studies. Her recent research centres on Hate Speech, Climate Change and Climate-induced Migration Discourse, Populist Discourse, and Social-media Activism. She has published numerous articles and edited volumes, among which “The Representation of ‘Exceptional Migrants’ in Media Discourse: The Case of Climate-induced Migration” (with Ruth Wodak, 2017) and Intersezionalità e Genere (with Anna Mongibello, 2021). She is the author of Practices of Proximity: The Appropriation of English in Australian Indigenous Literature (2010), which won the ESSE Book Award in 2012, of Global English, Transnational Flows: Australia and New Zealand in Translation (2012) and The Evaluation of Risk in Institutional and Newspaper Discourse: the Case of Climate Change and Migration (2018).