Anna Mongibello (PhD) is Associate Professor of English Language and Translation
at the University of Naples "L'Orientale". Her current research interests range from
digital activisms, New Media Discourse, Digital Discourse and Social Media
Discourse analyzed from a multimodal and discursive perspective; computermediated
communication; Media and News Discourse; the intersections of
language, ideology and power explored through corpus-based critical discourse
analysis; e-learning, virtuality, digital environments and intercultural
communicative competence; digital tools for TEFL. She is a member of the Board of
the Italian Association for Canadian Studies. In 2012 she was awarded the Doctoral
Student Research Award issued by the Government of Canada and the
International Council for Canadian Studies.