Cinzia Bevitori

CURRENT AND PREVIOUS ACADEMIC POSITION

2019-pres. Professoressa Associata - English Language and Linguistics Alma-Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, Campus di Forlì

Dipartimento di Interpretazione e Traduzione (DIT)

2015-2019 Professoressa Associata - English Language and Linguistics Alma-Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, Campus di Forlì

Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche e Sociali (SPS)

2008-2015 Ricercatrice Confermata a Tempo Indeterminato, English Language and Linguistics

Alma-Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, Campus di Forlì

Dipartimento di Interpretazione e Traduzione (DIT)

2005-2008 Ricercatrice a Tempo Indeterminato - English Language and Linguistics

Università di Bologna, Dipartimento Studi Interdisciplinari Traduzione, Lingue e Cultura (SITLeC),
Facoltà di Scienze Politiche sede di Forlì

2004-2005 Assegnista di Ricerca “Corpora and Discourse: A quantitative and qualitative analysis of political and media discourse on the conflict in Iraq in 2003” (PRIN 2004-2006)
Università di Bologna, Dipartimento Studi Interdisciplinari Traduzione Lingue e Culture (SITLeC)

EDUCATION

1993/1994 Laurea di Dottore in Lingue e Letterature Straniere Moderne - Lingua e Letteratura Inglese 110/110 Lode (summa cum laude), Università degli Studi di Firenze.

1996/1997 M.A. in "Traduzione Multimediale per il Cinema e la Televisione", Università di Bologna, SSLMiT

2000/2001 M.A. in "Multimedialità e Didattica", Università degli Studi di Padova, Facoltà di Scienze della FormazioneDipartimento di Scienze dell'Educazione

2004/2005 Assegnista di Ricerca - “Corpora and Discourse: A quantitative and qualitative analysis of political and media discourse on the conflict in Iraq in 2003” (PRIN 2004-2006, Università di Bologna, Dipartimento Studi Interdisciplinari Traduzione Lingue e Culture (SITLeC)

TEACHING ACTIVITIES

Teaching activities - first and second-cycle degrees

2022-pres. Analysis of Political Language

LM - Second Cycle Degree Program - International Relations and Diplomatic affairs (LM-SID) UNIBO- Forlì Campus

2022-pres. Corpus-Assisted Discourse Studies

LM - Second Cycle Degree Program in Specialized Translation (SPEcTRA)
UNIBO- Forlì Campus

2025-pres. Academic Writing and Public Speaking

Bachelor International Relations (BIS)
UNIBO- Forlì Campus

Additional Teaching activities

2024-pres. Master (II level) in Diplomacy

University of Bologna - Forlì Campus

English for Diplomacy
Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MAECI).

2024-pres. Research Skills. Corpora, Linguistics and Technology Lab
LM - Second Cycle Degree Program in Specialized Translation

University of Bologna - Forlì Campus

VISITING ACADEMIC POSITIONS

2026 Winter School: Connected or Divided? Ethics and Inclusion in a Human-Centered Digital World,

Toyo University - Tokyo, 15-25 February 2026

Keynote address: No one Left offline: Eco-social meaning-making perspectives on digital inclusion and sustainability

2025 Invited Visiting Scholar, University of Gothenburg, Department of Applied IT

Gothenburg, October 2025

• Keynote Lecture at the Communication Collegium Seminar Series.

Climate at a Critical Juncture: Discursive Framings and the Language of Legitimation

• Served as expert discussant for the Final Seminar of PhD candidate J. Currie

Dissertation: In the Air We Breathe: A Corpus-Assisted Discourse Study of Climate Change in the Language of UK Politicians and Activists.

RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

PhD Supervision

2025-pres. Co-Supervisor: Leonardo Spadazzi (41 ciclo)
Title: Gemelli diversi? Rossija-1 e Fox Newsa confronto: analisi corpus-assisteddel discorso sull’Altro nei talk show politici nel biennio 2024-2025

University of Bologna - Forli Campus
PhD programme in Translation, Interpreting and Intercultural Studies

2025 Hosting Supervisor: PhD candidate: XU Yuyuan
University of Beijing. Visiting Research Project (funded by China Research Council)
University of Bologna – Forli Campus, January-July 2025

2023/2026 Supervisor: Martina Russo (38 cycle),
University of Bologna - Forli Campus
PhD programme in Translation, Interpreting and Intercultural Studies

Title: Language and Reconnection with Nature: A Grammar of Enchantment
PhD Viva March 2026. Final assessment: Excellent with honours.

2022/2025 Co-supervisor: Maheen Haider Alipoor (37 cycle)

University of Bologna - Forli Campus
PhD programme in Translation, Interpreting and Intercultural Studies

PhD Scholarship on Innovation and Green topics
ESF REACT-EU, PON 2014–2020 program “Tools for communicating the climate crisis and environmental sustainability from a gender perspective”
PhD Viva June 2025. Final assessment: Excellent.

PhD Committees and Examination Boards

2026 (May.) External Examiner

PhD candidate in Communication: John Curry (University of Gothenburg)

Title: In the Air We Breathe: A Corpus-Assisted Discourse Study of Climate Change in the

Language of UK Politicians and Activists

University of Gothenburg (Sweden)

2024 Alternate Member, PhD Final Examination Committee, Translation, Interpreting and Intercultural Studies (Final examination session, June–July 2024; extension session)

2023 Internal Member, PhD Final Examination Committee, Translation, Interpreting and Intercultural Studies (ref. 486-4) (Extension session)

2022 Member, PhD Admissions Committee, Translation, Interpreting and Intercultural Studies, 38th cycle (Appointed by Rector’s Decree no. 685/2022 and no. 830/2022)

2021 Chair, PhD Admissions Committee, Translation, Interpreting and Intercultural Studies (PNRR-funded positions) (38th cycle, Academic Year 2022/2023)

2018/2024 Member, PhD Board (Doctoral Committee), Translation, Interpreting and Intercultural Studies( 34th–39th cycles)

INTERNATIONAL/NATIONAL RESEARCH NETWORKS AND COLLABORATIONS

2025-pres. Member, COMMUNICATING SUSTAINABILITIES NETWORK

https:/www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/communicating-sustainabilities/

Project lead: Prof. Tom Bartlett University of Glasgow (UK)

2025-pres. Advisor, THE H4RMONY PROJECT
In collaboration with the University of Gloucestershire
Promoting Sustainable Narratives through AI

https://theh4rmonyproject.org/

Principal Advisor: Arran Stibbe - Project lead: Jorge Vallego

2025-pres. Member (with event organizations responsibilities), Interdepartmental Research Centre Punto Europa (CeSIPE)

Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna, Forlì Campus
https://centri.unibo.it/puntoeuropa/en

2023-pres. Vice-Director, Board of Directors, Scientific Committee, UNIBO Scientific Coordinator Interuniversity Research Centre Dis4Change:
Studies on Climate Change and Environmental Discourse (Decreto Rettorale del 23/03/2023)
https://dis4change-researchcentre.eu/

2023-pres. Member, Interuniversity Reserch Centre I-Land - Identity, Language and Diversity,

University of Naples L’ Orientale

2020-pres. Department Representative, ALMA MATER Research Institute on Global Challenges and Climate Change – ALMA CLIMATE
https://centri.unibo.it/climate/en
.Unit: Cultural, socio-economic, legal and political aspects of climate change

2020-pres. Member, Interdisciplinary Research Centre Corpora, Linguistics, Technology (CoLiTec)

University of Bologna, Forli Campus, DIT
https://centri.unibo.it/colitec/en

2005-pres. Member, Centro di Studi Linguistico-Culturali, Ricerca – Prassi – Formazione

(CESLIC) Università di Bologna
https://site.unibo.it/ceslic/it

AWARDS AND GRANTS

2024-2025 Principal Investigator PhD Research Project RER ESF:
“Communicating the ecological transition: eco-emotions, discursive practices, storytelling and ecological citizenship to address the challenges of climate change.”
Funded by the Emilia-Romagna Region within the framework of Research Training Projects: Territory, Ecological and Cultural, Economic and Social Transition towards Sustainability (PR ESF+ 2021–2027 – Regional Government Resolution No. 225 of 12/04/2024). CUP: J33C24000280006.

2017 ANVUR/MIUR FFABR Fund for the Financing of Basic Research Activities (FFABR Fondo per finanziamento delle attività base di ricerca) (232/2016)

2016-2020 Horizon 2020 GLOBUS: Reconsidering European Contributions to Global Justice – Coordinator ARENA Funding: Research and Innovation Action, Horizon 2020, Societal Challenges 6: Europe in a changing world – Inclusive, innovative and reflective societies. GLOBUS website: http://www.globus.uio.no/researchUniversity of Oslo - ARENA Centre for European StudiesMember (UNIBO Unit)

2004-2006 Research Program of National Interest (PRIN 2004-2006) – member
University of Bologna, University of Siena, University of Roma 3, University of Milan La Statale
CorDis – CORPORA AND DISCOURSE - A quantitative and qualitative analysis of political and media discourse on the conflict in Iraq in 2003 - Member (UNIBO unit)

ACADEMIC LEADERSHIP AND SERVICE

2025-pres. Member of Scientific Board
Alma-Mater Studiurum – University of Bologna
Forlì Campus Central Library Biblioteca “Ruffilli”
https://forli.sba.unibo.it/en/about-us/organisation

2025-pres. Academic Tutor
Alma-Mater Studiurum – University of Bologna, Forlì Campus
Department of Political and Social Sciences (SPS)
Bachelor International Relations (BIS)

2018-pres. Coordinator of Erasmus+ Exchange Programme
University of Sussex – Brighton
Erasmus Plus – Key Action 1

0310 Social and Behavioural Sciences, not further defined
0312 Political sciences and civics

2025-pres. Academic Tutor Bachelor in International Studies (BIS)

2015-2024 Academic Tutor (Curricular Internship LT-SID Scienze Internazionali e Diplomatiche

2015-present Coordinator, Language Laboratories (BA Programmes SID & BIS

• Member, Final Examination Committee (BA in International and Diplomatic Sciences, BA in International Studies
• Member, Selection Committee for student traineeships, European Social Observatory (OSE), Brussels
• Member, Selection Committee for student traineeships, COSPE
• Member, Selection Committee for student traineeships, UNU-CRIS
• Member, Selection Committee, NATO Model Event
• Member, OFA Committee (Additional Learning Requirements)
• Member, TOLC/OPT Committee (admissions and placement tests)

Scientific organisations/Coordination of Academic Activities
Selection 2022-present

2026, May Member, Scientific Committee, CLAVIER Study Day, Evolving Discourses and Specialized Communication in Societal and Environmental Transformation: Linguistic Insights in the Age of
Sapienza University of Rome

Member, Scientific Committee, DN33 International Conference – “Discourse, Sustainability, and Education: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Climate and Communication”, University of International Studies of Rome (UNINT)

2025, July Co-Convener of the COLLOQUIUM: Changing climate, changing discourse: Exploring approaches, methods and connections within and beyond Systemic Functional Linguistics, ISFC50 2025 - University of Glasgow, Scotland, July 2025 Conference Chair: Tom Bartlett Conveners: Cinzia Bevitori (University of Bologna), Ben Clarke (University of Gothenburg), Matteo Fuoli (University of Birmingham) and Jane Johnson (University of Bologna)

2025, June Member, Scientific Committee, DIS-4Change Biennial International Conference – “Engaging Communities in Environmental and Climate In/Action: Narratives, Discursive Practices, and Transdisciplinary Approaches”, University of Bari Aldo Moro

2024, June Member, Scientific Committee, Summer School – “Climate Change Theories, Narration and Discourse: Sharing Knowledges, Methods and Practices”, University of Naples “L’Orientale”

2023, Nov. Member, Scientific Committee, CLAVIER 2023 – Framing Nature: Discourse Past and Present of Nature and the Environment. A Sustainability Perspective.

2023, Sept. Member, Organising Committee, CADS Bootcamp 2023 – “Theories and Methods for the Corpus-Assisted Analysis of Discourse: From Language that Denotes to Language that Expresses Phenomena”, University of Bologna, Residential University Centre of Bertinoro

2023, March Member, Scientific Committee, International Systemic Functional Congress (ISFC 2023), University of Sfax/Sousse, Tunisi

2022, Sept. Co-Convenor PANEL Climate Change Discourses and Beyond: Re-mediation and Re-contextualisation in News and Social Media AIAXXX EXPERIMENT AND INNOVATION: BRANCHING FORWARDS AND BACKWARDS CATANIA

EDITORIAL ACTIVITY

2022-pres. Editorial Board Memebership
Scientific journal Anglistica AION: An Interdisciplinary Journal – Top ranking (FASCIA A)
Role: Member

2015-pres. Peer-review Activity
Reviewer for:
Climate Policy, Critical Discourse Studies, Frontiers, JCads-Journal of Corpora and Discourse, Journal of Corpus of Language and Linguistics, Language, Context and Text, Pragmatic and Society, Text & Talk, Anglistica AION, ESP Across Cultures, Iperstoria, Lingue e Linguaggi, Mediazioni.

Conference, Seminar, and Workshop Participation

• 2026 C. Bevitori, M. Russo & J. Vallego, Ecodigital Literacies as Ecosocial Practice. An SFL-informed, AI-enhanced corpus approach to sustainable digital narratives, Paper presented at 34th European Systemic Functional Linguistics Conference (ESFLC34) Conference Theme: Ecosocial Environment, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, 1-3 July 2026
• 2026 C. Bevitori, & J. H. Johnson, Telling time, reading sustainable futures. Where linguistics meets anthropology in the discursive construction of climate change, Paper presented at DiscourseNet33, Discourse, Sustainability, and Education: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Climate and Communication, Università degli Studi Internazionali di Roma, 26-27 March 2026
• 2026 C. Bevitori, Discourse, Politics, and the Environment: An Ecolinguistic Perspective. Invited Talk at Language and Ecology in the Anthropocene: A Symposium on Ecolinguistics by R. Poole (University of Alabama). Online event, 5-6 February 2026.
• 2025 Co-Convener of the COLLOQUIUM: Changing climate, changing discourse: Exploring approaches, methods and connections within and beyond Systemic Functional Linguistics, ISFC50 2025 - University of Glasgow, Scotland, July 2025 Conference Chair: Tom Bartlett Conveners: Cinzia Bevitori (University of Bologna), Ben Clarke (University of Gothenburg), Matteo Fuoli (University of Birmingham) and Jane Johnson (University of Bologna)
• 2025 C. Bevitori, J.H. Johnson, Exploring Eco-Emotions in responses to climate change non-fiction: A Corpus-Informed Appraisal Study, Paper presented at the Panel ISFC50 2025, University of Glasgow, 7-11 July 2025.
• 2025 C. Bevitori (University of Bologna) and Katherine E. Russo (University of Naple “L’ Orientale”) “Because climate change is the crisis that will stay with us”: Crisis, Polycrisis, Permacrisis in the EU discursive space, Papaer presented at Corpus Linguistics International Conference 2025, University of Birmingham, 30th June-3rdJuly 2025
• 2025 C. Bevitori, J.H. Johnson, Emotions, Language, and Climate Action Understanding Readers' Emotional Engagement with Climate Change Books, Paper presented at the Biennial DIS-4Change International Conference,, Engaging Communities in Environmental and Climate In/Action: Narratives, Discursive Practices, and Transdisciplinary Approaches, 23-25 June 2025, University of Bari Aldo Moro.
• 2024 C. Bevitori, J.H. Johnson, “I just feel really inspired and full of energy to work towards a better future!” Eco-emotions in readers' reviews: a corpus-informed SFL study”, Paper presented at the 2024 European Society for the Study of English (ESSE 2024) Conference, University of Lausanne, Switzerland, 26-30 August 2024.
• 2024 G. Bencini, C. Bevitori, “What’s in a name? Representing aphasia and autism over time: a CaDS perspective”, Paper presented at the 7^th Corpora & Discourse International Conference, University of Innsbruck, 17-19 July 2024.
• 2024 C. Bevitori, J.H. Johnson, “How do I feel?” a corpus-informed SFL study of eco-emotions in readers' reviews”, Paper presented at the 49^th International Systemic Functional Congress - ISFC49, University of New South Wales, Sydney 1-5 July 2024.

• 2023 G. Bencini, C. Bevitori, Constructing Disability Identities: Person-first and identity-first as a case study, Paper presented at Languaging Diversity International Conference (I-Land), Languaging identities in changing times: challenges and opportunities, Università di Torino, 14-16 Dicembre 2023
• 2023 C. Bevitori, with K.E Russo, Panel Co-Convenors : Framing, Re-framing and Counter-Framing Nature and Climate Change in Discourse to Effect Change and Action, International Conference CLAVIER 2023, Framing nature: discourses past and present of nature and the environment. A sustainability perspective, Università degli Studi di Milano, 22-24 Novembre 2023.
• 2023 C. Bevitori, J. H. Johnson, Future? Tense! : Exploring the Future in a climate change non-fiction corpus, Paper presented at the 12th International Corpus Linguistics conference (CL2023), University of Lancaster 3-6 July 2023
• 2023 C. Bevitori, K.E. Russo, Crisis as a “lesson to be learned”: Legitimation and consensus-building strategies in Covid-19 and Climate Change Discourse in the EU, Paper accepted at DNC5ALED: Discourses and their impacts on a world of multiple crises, University of Valencia, 25-28 July 2023
• 2023 C. Bevitori, Jane H. Johnson, Engaging with the Future. Paper accepted at PALA Conference 2023, University of Bologna, Bertinoro Residential Center, 12-16 July 2023
• 2023 D.R. Miller, C. Bevitori, Corpus-assisted SFL Research: Exploring the dynamics of (dis)empowerment in CSR reports, Paper presented at 48th International Systemic Functional Congress ISFC48 University of Sfax/Sousse - Tunisia 16-21 March 2023
• 2022 C. Bevitori, K.E. Russo, The Language of Crisis in the ‘Virocene’: A Critical Corpus-Assisted analysis of COVID-19 and Climate Change Discourse in the EU, Paper presented at International LinC (Linguaggi della Crisi) Conference The language of crisis from the pandemic to politics: forms of discourse and models of communication, Università degli Studi di Bari "Aldo Moro", 1-2 Decembre 2023.
• 2022 C. Bevitori, K.E.Russo, PANEL Convenors "Climate Change Discourses and Beyond: Re-mediation and Re-contextualisation in News and Social Media" AIA XXX EXPERIMENT AND INNOVATION: BRANCHING FORWARDS AND BACKWARDS CATANIA, 15th-17th September 2022
• 2022 C. Bevitori, J.H. Johnson, In search of climate-related human mobility across time and space: what’s missing?, Paper accepted at CADS Conf 2022 - 6th Corpora & Discourse International Conference [https://eventi.unibo.it/corpora-and-discourse-2022]26 August 2022 - 28 August 2022
• 2022 C. Bevitori, D.R. Miller, Engaging with stakeholders in Corporate Sustainability Reports: A corpus-assisted SFL study, Paper presented at 31st European Systemic Functional Linguistics Conference Theme: Social Semiotics and Sustainability, 24th-26th of August 2022 University of Odense (Denmark), 24th-26th August 2022.2021
• 2021 C. Bevitori, J. H. Johnson, "The challenges of adapting to a changing climate: Risk and Resilience in the press across the globe", Paper presented at CL2021 Corpus Linguistics International Conference, University of Limerick, 13/16 June 2021
• 2020 C. Bevitori, J.H Johnson, "Investigating climate resilience across genres over time: a cads perspective", Paper accepted at Corpora and Discourse International Conferences, University of Sussex 17-19 June 2020.
• 2020 C. Bevitori J.H. Johnson,''dapting to Risk? Analysing discourses of human mobility in the context of climate change", Paper accepted at the 30th European Systemic Functional Linguistics Conference: "Social Semiotics and Social Justice" Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, U.K. 1st to 3rd July, 2020
• 2019 C. Bevitori, Ways of meaning, ways of acting: the case of climate change in TED Talks, Paper accepted at the 29th29^th European Systemic Functional Linguistics Conference
  3-5 July 2019, University of Leiria, Portugal, SFL on multiliteracies, professional discourse and education.

• 2019 C. Bevitori and J.H. Johnson, “Exploring diachronicity in specialized corpora to investigate discourse: the case of climate-induced migration”, Contribution at International Corpus Linguistics Conference, University of Cardiff – UK, 23-27 July 2019.
• 2018 C. Bevitori and J.H. Johnson, "Climate Change and Migration: Exploring the nexus", Paper presented at the Panel Environmental issues and the Anthropocene: Problems and Opportunities-14h ESSE International Conference, 29 August - 2 September, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic 2018,
• 2018 C. Bevitori and J.H Johnson, "Patterns of movement, patterns of meaning", Paper presented at the International CADaaD Conference, University of Aalborg, Denmark, 4-6 July
• 2018 C. Bevitori and J.H. Johnson, "Climate Change and Displacement: a diachronic-corpus-assisted discourse analysis of the migration-climate change nexus in the", Paper presented at Corpora and Discourse International Conference, University of Lancaster 22-24 June
• 2018 C. Bevitori and J.H. Johnson, "Language, mobility and climate change at the crossroad", Paper presented at IVACS International Biennial Conference, Univ.ersity of Malta, 13-15 June
• 2017 C. Bevitori, Debating ‘migration’: a corpus-assisted discourse analysis approach to an interdisciplinary agenda. Paper presented at the 21st International Conference Language for Specific Purposes, Interdisciplinary Knowledge-Making: Challenges for LSP, 27-30 June 2017, University of Bergen.
• 2017 C. Bevitori, “Exploring ‘justice’ through the lens of corpora. Paper accepted and presented at ICAME38, Orbis et Corpus: Looking at the World through Corpora, 24-27 May 2017, University of Prague.
• 2016 C. Bevitori, “Using Corpora to analyse Discourse” , Seminario nell’ambito del Progetto GLOBUS: Reconsidering European Contributions to Global Justice, November 2017, LABIC: Forlì
• 2016 C. Bevitori, "Across the border: the mediatization of the ‘migration crisis' in the Italian and British Press. Some reflections from a contrastive corpus-assisted meaning analysis perspective". Paper accepted at the 26^th European Systemic Functional Linguistics Conference, Functional Linguistic and Social Semiotic Approaches to the Media, 13-15 July, 2016 University of Salzburg, Austria
• 2015 C. Bevitori, “may God bless America” : Patterns of in/stability in Presidential Discourse. Contributo accettato al Convegno Internazionale Corpus Linguistics 2015, University of Lancaster 21-24 July 2015, UK.
• 2014 C. Bevitori, "Discourses of (in)security" in the State of the Union Addresses. A diachronic corpus-assisted discourse study". Contributo accettato al Convegno Internazionale 5th CADAAD Conference 1-3 September 2014, ELTE University Budapest, Hungary.
• 2013 C. Bevitori, "Healthy, Clean and Safe: Environmental Discourses within the State of the Union Addresses, Contributo accettato in forma di poster al Convegno Internazionale Corpus Linguistics 2013, University of Lancaster 23-26 luglio 2013
• 2013 C. Bevitori (and Paul Bayley), "In search for meaning: what corpora can/cannot tell", contributo nell'ambito del Themed Colloquium Ticklish trawling : the limits of corpus assistedmeaning analysis, Convernor Prof. D. Miller , Convegno Internazionale 24th ESFLCW, Coventry 1-3 luglio, 2013
• 2011 C. Bevitori (and P. Bayley), "Addressing the Congress: Language change from Washington to Obama (1790-2011)", contributo accettato al Convegno Internazionale CLAVIER 11 Tracking Language Change in Professional and Specialised Genres, Università di Modena 26-28 November 2011.
• 2011 C. Bevitori, "living up to the vision: The quest for ‘sustainability' in environmental news blogs", XXV AIA Conference, Regenerating Community, Territory, Voices, Memory and Vision,Contributo accettato in forma di poster, L'aquila 15-17 September 2011.
• 2011 C. Bevitori “Jumping on the green bandwagon: The discursive construction of green across 'old' and 'new' media genres at the interesection between corpora and discourse”, Contributo accettato al Convegno Internazionale, Corpus Linguistics 2011 - Discourse and Corpus Linguistics, University of Birmingham 20-22 luglio 2011.
• 2010 C. Bevitori, "Climates of meaning: The rhetorical functionality of “should” in UK and US editorials on climate change", contributo al 22nd ESFL Conference, University of Koper 9-11 luglio2010.
• 2010 C. Bevitori, "Gendered discourses on war at the intersection between party affiliation and institutional role: The case of legislative Assemblies", relazione su invito, BAAL Gender and Corpus Linguistics Event, University of Lancaster, 30 March 2010. at: http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/organisations/galsig/abstracts.htm
• 2009 C. Bevitori (2009), "Imagine, if you will…: Argumentative strategies in newspaper opinion articles on climate change". Contributo accettato alla Conferenza: AIA XXIV National Conference, Challenges for the 21st century: dilemmas, ambiguities, directions. Università Roma Tre, Roma, 1-3 October 2009.
• 2009 C. Bevitori, "The meanings of responsibility in the British and American press on climate change: a corpus-assisted discourse analysis perspective" Contributo accettato al Convegno Internazionale: PALC 2009 (Practical Applications in Language and Computers), Università di Lodz, Polonia, 6-8 Aprile 2009.
• 2006 C. Bevitori, “Engendering conflict? A corpus-assisted analysis of women MPs positioning on the war in Iraq”. Contributo accettato al Convegno Internazionale: Conflitti: strategie di rappresentazione della guerra nella cultura postmoderna./ Conflicts: strategies of representation of war in postmodern culture. Università di Bologna, aula Prodi, 5- 7 ottobre 2006.
• 2005 C. Bevitori, “Speech representation in parliamentary discourse. Rhetorical strategies in a heteroglossic perspective: a corpus-based study.” Contributo accettato al Convegno Inteernazionale: LSP 2005 – New Trends in Specialized Discourse. University of Bergamo , 29th August- 2nd September 2005.
• 2005 C. Bevitori (con P. Bayley), “To secure a better future for the people ...”: positive spin on political decisions. A corpus-based study of the British House of Commons in 2003. Contributo a ISFC – Systemic Functional Linguistics Conference 2005. University of Sydney 18-22 July 2005.
• 2005 C. Bevitori and P. Bayley, “Parliamentary Corpus: the House of Commons 2003”, CorDisworkshop, Bologna, marzo 2005.
• 2005 C. Bevitori and P. Bayley, “Discourse of Justification in the House of Commons”, con Paul Bayley CorDis workshop, Portico, luglio 2005.

MEMBERSHIP OF SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES

• International Aassociation for Discourse Studies - DiscourseNet
• International Ecolinguistics Association (IEA)
• European Society for the Study of English (ESSE)
• International Systemic Functional Linguistics Association (ISFLA)
• European Systemic Functional Linguistics Association (ESFLA)
• Italian Association of Anglistics (AIA)

SELECTED RESEARCH AND EDUCATIONAL INNOVATIVE PROJECTS (1998-2003)

Participation (junior researcher) in national and international projects on:

• multilingual corpus development;
• computer-assisted language learning (CALL);
• •online language education;
• ESP materials development;
• language certification and assessment;
• EU Leonardo projects on technology-enhanced language learning

Research projects (up to 2004)

• 2003/2004
  University of Bologna (Forlì Campus), CLIRO (Language Center)
  Design and creation of tests for language skills (for students of political science and international relation) .
• 2002/2003
  University of Bologna (Forlì Campus), CLIRO (Language Center)
  Research Project: Re-views. On-line Reading Skills.
  Self-access course, intended for use in an academic, non-native setting . Upper Intermediate level
• 2001/2002
  University of Bologna (Forlì Campus), SSLMIT
  Leonardo Project in partnership with the University of Lancashire (UK) and the University of Valencia (SP), and SINFORM (IT). Project Manager: Prof. M. Soffritti
• 2000/2001
  University of Bologna (Forlì Campus), SSLMIT
  Leonardo Project: WELL – Web Environment For Language Learning For Trade Union And Vocational Training Sectors. In partnership with the University of Newcastle (UK) and SINFORM (IT). Project Manager: Prof. M. Soffritti.
• 1998/2000
  University of Bologna (Forlì Campus), CLIRO
  Research Project: MeDiArte: Learning English through Culture and Heritage.
  self-access hypermedia course, intended for use in an academic and non-native setting. Intermediate level
  1998/1999
  University of Bologna (Forlì Campus), CLIRO
  Research Project: New Europe: The European Integration
  Creation of multilingual corpora