Yuanyuan He
Lecturer in Cognitive Linguistics and Intercultural Communication
China Foreign Affairs University
Department of English and International Studies
Visiting period: January 15–February 15, 2020
Yuanyuan He is Lecturer in Cognitive Linguistics and Intercultural Communication at the China Foreign Affairs University. Her research focuses on Cognitive Linguistics and intercultural communication as she is interested in investigating the development of critical cultural awareness from the perspective of Frame Semantics and Conceptual Blending Theory. At the moment, she is particularly interested in exploring framing-based cognitive processes and operations involved in critical cultural awareness.
Ljiljana Šari
Professor of Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian
University of Oslo
Department of Literature, Area Studies, and European Languages
Visiting period: February 22–March 9, 2018
Ljiljana Šari (University of Oslo) is Professor of Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian at the Department of Literature, Area Studies, and European Languages. Her current research relates to cognitive linguistics, semantics, pragmatics and discourse analysis. These studies examine metaphors and symbols in political discourse, multimodal presentation of migration in South Slavic media, and impoliteness in (online) discourse and interpreting. She also leads the research group in charge of the project Spatial Constructions in South Slavic: Semantics of Prefixes and Cognate Prepositions, which brings together an international group studying the conceptualization of space in Slavic languages.
Ana Albalat-Mascarell
Assistant Professor of English Language and Linguistics
Universitat Politècnica de València
Department of Applied Linguistics
Visiting period: December 20, 2023 – January 19, 2024
Ana Albalat-Mascarell is Assistant Professor at the Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain, where she works in the field of English Language and Linguistics. Her research combines perspectives from Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis and Corpus Linguistics, with a particular focus on metadiscourse strategies in political communication. She completed her PhD in Applied Linguistics in 2021 with a dissertation on the comparative analysis of election debates in North American and Spanish contexts. Her current research interests include critical discourse analysis, intercultural pragmatics, multimodality and the use of corpora to explore ideological discourse.
Mehmet Kahyaoğlu
Assistant Professor of Art History
Yaşar University, Izmir, Türkiye
Faculty of Science and Letters, Department of Science Culture
Visiting period: October 1, 2024 – January 31, 2025
Mehmet Kahyaoğlu is Assistant Professor of Art History at Yaşar University in Izmir, Türkiye. He received his PhD in Byzantine Art from Ege University and has over twenty years of teaching and research experience in art history, aesthetics, iconography, mythology, gastronomy, and visual culture. His interdisciplinary research explores the intersections between art, culture, and gastronomy, with a focus on how these domains reflect societal dynamics. He has taken part in international projects, including collaborations with Museum With No Frontiers and EU-funded programmes such as European Perspectives on Cultural Codes in Art and a Jean Monnet Module on multicultural coexistence. Currently, he is conducting research at the Department of Chemical Engineering, Materials and Industrial Production at the University of Napoli Federico II, where he investigates the intersection of art, engineering, and critical theory, exploring materials as metaphors, symbols, and conceptual tools.
