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THE CENTRE'S TEAM

Director
Teun A. van Dijk
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Teun A. van Dijk, is Founding Director of the Centre. Teun A. van Dijk was a professor of Discourse Studies at the University of Amsterdam until 2004 and is at present professor at Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona. For more information, see  www.discourses.org.

Contact: vandijk@discourses.org 

Centre Coordinator 
Lucía de la Presa
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Lucía de la Presa holds an International Phd in Language Sciences (University Pompeu Fabra) and an MA in Discourse Studies (University Pompeu Fabra). Her research interests include the study of mainstream and alternative media, social movements, and the role of discourse in processes of social and political transformation. She is also interested in the practice and development of transdisciplinary and decolonial  approaches to critical research.

Contact: 

delapresa@discoursestudies.org

Professor and Assistant for Events 
César Colorado
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César Colorado is a PhD in Linguistics Communication and Multilingual Mediation (Pompeu Fabra University-UPF). He is also an MA in Linguistics and Technological Applications (UPF) and holds a bachelor’s degree in Hispanic Language and Literature (University of Veracruz-UV, Mexico).

In addition to being a researcher in Discourse Analysis, he has worked as a paleographer, proofreader, translator (English-Spanish, Catalan-Spanish), journalist and radio producer. He has published articles and reports in several magazines and newspapers in Mexico and Spain.

Contact: 

cesar.colorado@discoursestudies.org​​​​​​

Associate Member and Project Coordinator
 
Patrícia Gouveia
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Patrícia Gouveia has a degree in History from the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro - UFRJ (1986), a Master's degree in Social Sciences from the Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro - UERJ (1997), and a PhD in Cultural Anthropology from the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro - UFRJ, in the Postgraduate Program in Sociology and Anthropology at IFCS/UFRJ (2003). She also has three post-doctorates: two are with the Universidade Federal de Viçosa, at PPGED-UFMG/BR (2003-2006 and 2007-2010) and one with the Universidade de Brasília - UnB, at the Postgraduate Program in Linguistics - PPGL/UnB (ongoing). At the Centre of Discourse Studies, she is Associate Member and the Coordinator for Region 1 of the project Discourse And Political Polarization in Latin America. She is also a researcher at LabEC/UnB affiliated with the Centre.  


Her academic work is centered primarily in the areas of Social Anthropology (Popular Groups and Social Markers of Difference); Migration, Memory and Experience; Discourses and Narrativities; and Applied Research and University Extension.

Contact: patricia.gouveia@discoursestudies.org

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Library and Event Assistant 
Amanda Barría Cárdenas
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Amanda Barría Cárdenas is a secondary school teacher in History and Social Sciences, she holds a Master's degree in Educational Research and Change from the University of Barcelona (UB), and she is currently studying for a PhD in Education and Society at the UB. Her research interests are related to the political and social history of education, initial teacher training and its relationship with studies of the discourse that teachers have regarding political and ideological concepts of citizenship and education for citizenship.

Contact: amanda@cecamericana.cl

Collaborator 
Paloma Elvira Ruiz
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Paloma Elvira holds an International PhD in Psychology from the Autonomous University of Madrid (2024), with a thesis on the political transformations of contemporary feminisms in the Spanish context. She has been connected to the Centre of Discourse Studies since 2017, and she currently serves as coordinator and researcher in an international project on the discursive legitimation of territorial inequalities and different forms of extractivism (such as energy or tourism), in collaboration with the Solidarity Network for Social Transformation (REDS). Her research interests include grassroots student and youth movements, (re)productive labor and territorial struggles, and her work is informed by critical ethnographic approaches as well as applied linguistics and discourse studies. 

Contact: paloma.elvira.ruiz@gmail.com 

Collaborator  
Laura Menna
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Laura Menna holds an International PhD in Language Sciences (Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona) and an MA in Linguistic Communication (University of Barcelona). Her academic background is in Spanish language and literature, critical discourse studies and ethnographic sociolinguistics. Her core research and political interests are the conditions and outcomes of knowledge production within migrant and antiracist social movements, from militant, discursive and philosophical perspectives. Her PhD dissertation draws on the concept of voice to ethnographically trace the mantero (street vendor) subject production in Barcelona and its intersections with issues of labor, (institutional) politics and (anti)racism, at local, national and global levels.

Contact: laura.menna.garin@gmail.com

Collaborator  
Carolina Rea
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Carolina Rea holds a Master's degree in Constitutional Law from the Universidad Iberoamericana and is a former Mexican civil servant. Her research interests are related to normative design, language and law and the application of discourse studies to legal practice in human rights and cultural rights from a critical perspective. She is a collaborator of the Centre of Discourse Studies in the field of discourse and law.

 

Contact: caroreagomez@hotmail.com

César Colorado
Lucia de la Presa
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