Laura Di Ferrante is from Naples (Italy) and lives in Rome, where she is Assistant Professor of English Language and Linguistics at Sapienza University, in the Department of Communication and Social Research. Co-founding editor and co-editor in chief of E-JournALL – EuroAmerican Journal of Applied Linguistics and Languages (ranked as a Class A journal by Anvur), her education background and work experience have been carried out both in Italy and the United States. Her main research interests focus on workplace and media discourse, intercultural pragmatics, and applied linguistics. She holds a Ph.D. in Linguistics and Teaching of Italian to Foreigners (2008, University for foreigners of Siena, Italy), and a Ph.D. in English Linguistics and Tesol (2013, Texas A&M University-Commerce); she also holds a Laurea (5-year degree) in Communication Sciences (2003, Sapienza University of Rome). She has taught at Texas A&M University-Commerce, Collin College (TX), RomaTre University, Federico II University, University for Foreigners of Siena. She is a member of the following research teams: CLAVIER – Corpus and Language Variation in English Research – unità di Sapienza Università di Roma; SPAM – Società e Politica Americana, Dipartimento di Comunicazione e Ricerca Sociale, Sapienza Università di Roma; Applied Linguistics Laboratory at Texas A&M University-Commerce.
A full list of her publications is available here.