Qatar University

Faculty Member, English Literature and Linguistics

Assistant Professor in Sociolinguistics and Discourse Analysis

College of Arts and Sciences

About

I was born in Athens, Greece. My undergraduate studies at the Universities of Athens and Vienna were in Greek philology (classics, Modern Greek literature) and linguistics (historical, theoretical, applied). I did an MPhil. in English and applied linguistics at the University of Cambridge and a PhD in Modern Greek sociolinguistics at King's College London. My PhD thesis investigated the relationship between speech style and social class identity on the basis of a comparative sociolinguistic study between the northern and the western suburbs of Athens; the former are stereotypically associated with wealthy and educated classes, while the latter with less well-off people.
My current research interests lie in Modern Greek, (Gulf) Arabic, and English sociolinguistics and discourse analysis. I recently received a grant from Qatar University to look into the sociolinguistics of globalization in contemporary Qatar. In addition, I teach a range of courses in (socio)linguistics and discourse analysis.

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