CV OF IRENE THEODOROPOULOU

Associate professor of Linguistics

Associate of King’s College London

Contact detailsDepartment of English Literature and LinguisticsCollege of Arts and SciencesQatar UniversityP.O. Box 2713, Doha,State of Qatar Office Tel: : +974 4403-4924Mobile: +974 33856193Office Location: Main Women’s Building, 134 Fax: (+974) 4403-4901 Email: irene.theodoropoulou@qu.edu.qa Webpage: https://qu.academia.edu/IreneTheodoropoulou

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Sociolinguistics (Modern Greek, (Gulf) Arabic and English)Discourse analysisIntercultural communicationComputer-mediated communicationRhetoricArchitecture

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EMPLOYMENT

February 2017 – today: Associate professor of Linguistics, Department of English Literature & Linguistics, Qatar University

February 2011 – February 2017: Assistant professor of Linguistics, Department of English Literature & Linguistics, Qatar University

July 2013: Instructor at the University of the Aegean Summer School ‘Language, Gender, and Sexuality: Discourses of Precarious Citizenship in Precarious Times. The Balkan Experience’. 1st - 14th July, 2013, Lesvos island, Greece

September 2010 – January 2011: Visiting assistant professor of sociolinguistics. Department of English Literature & Linguistics, Qatar University

September 2008 – June 2010: Part time lecturer in sociolinguistics, Modern Language Centre, King’s College London

September 2009 – June 2010: Part time teacher of Modern Greek language and culture, St. Cyprian Greek Cypriot Community School, London, UK

EDUCATION

2010 King’s College London (London, UK)Ph.D. in SociolinguisticsThesis: Indexicalities of Modern Greek speech style: A comparative sociolinguistic study on Athenian suburban class identities

2007 Linguistic Society of America Summer Institute 2007Stanford University (Palo Alto, CA)Coursework in sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology

2006 University of Cambridge (Cambridge, UK) MPhil. in English and Applied Linguistics (Merit)

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2005

2005

University of Athens (Athens, Greece)Ptychion (equivalent to B.A) in Greek Philology (major: linguistics)B.A dissertation: The use of interjections in comicsGPA: 9.08/10 (summa cum laude)

Linguistic Society of America Summer Institute 2005,Harvard University/MIT (Cambridge, MA)Coursework in sociolinguistics, creole linguistics and field research methods

2002 – 2003

1999 - 2000

1999

University of Vienna (Vienna, Austria)Coursework in applied linguistics, classics, byzantine history

University of Athens (Athens, Greece)Coursework in law

Apolyterio Lykeiou (High School Graduation Title). Arsakeio Hellenic Classical Lyceum of Psychico. Grade: 19 8/11 out of 20 (Excellent)

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AWARDS AND HONORS

Year Award/Honor

2015 Qatar University College of Arts and Sciences Research Excellence Award

2013 Qatar University College of Arts and Sciences Teaching Excellence Award

2010 Associateship of King’s College London (AKC)

2008 Mary Clark Travel Exhibitions' Travel Award King’s College London

2007 King’s College London Graduate School Roberts Travel Award

2006 St. Edmund’s College Tutorial Award. University of Cambridge.

2003

2002

IKY Award (for highest academic performance in the Department of Greek Philology during the academic years 2000-2001, 2001-2002, 2002-2003). Greek State Scholarships Foundation

Herder Scholarship from the Alfred Toepfer Foundation FVS in Hamburg, Germany for one year studies in Linguistics at the University of Vienna, Austria. Nominated as a scholar by Professor Georgios Babiniotis, Professor Emeritus of Linguistics and Former Rector of University of Athens, who was the Herder Award recipient in the category of Linguistics in 2002.

2000 Municipality of Aghia Paraskevi AwardEntrance in the Department of Philology/University of Athens after successfully sitting the Panhellenic Exams and achieving the highest grade (6078/6400) among approximately 3,500 applicants from all over Greece

1999 Award of Achievement. Hellenic Ministry of Education

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RESEARCH GRANTS

Year Research grant

2018 Qatar University Student Grant (QUST-2-CAS-2018-5) for the project titled ‘Constructing solidarity with Qatar online: A corpus linguistic approach’. Duration of the Grant: June 2018-December 2018. QR 3,548 (ongoing)

2015 Seed funding from the Center for Humanities and Social Sciences (CHSS–SF–14–7), College of Arts and Sciences, Qatar University, for an interdisciplinary project titled ‘Branding Qatar as a sports tourism destination: A social semiotic analysis’. Collaboration with Dr. Julieta Alos, Department of English Literature & Linguistics (Translation). Duration of the Grant: January 2015-May 2015. QR 20,000 (completed)

2013a Junior Scientists Research Experience Program (JSREP) Grant (JSREP 4-009-6-003) from Qatar National Research Fund for the project titled ‘Between offline and online Qatar: Sociolinguistics of globalized social class, gender and culture’. Duration of the Grant: 2013-2016. $267,986 (completed)

2013b Undergraduate Research Experience Program (UREP) Grant (UREP 13-094-5-023) from Qatar National Research Fund for the project titled ‘Developing an illustrated glossary of Qatar’s traditional architectural terminology’. Collaboration with Dr. Yasser Mahgoub, Department of Architecture & Urban Planning, Qatar University. Duration of the Grant: 2013-2014. $56,200 (completed)

2011 Start-Up Grant from Qatar University (QUSG-CAS-SPR-11/12-7) for a sociolinguistic project titled ‘Social class, language and globalization in contemporary Qatar’. Duration of the Grant: 2011-2012. $14,000 (completed)

2009 King’s College School of Humanities Small Grant. £500

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PUBLICATIONS

MONOGRAPH

Year/Status Title

2014 Sociolinguistics of Style and Social Class in Contemporary Athens. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. ISBN 9789027206480. Reviewed by Christopher G. Brown (2015) in the Journal of Greek Linguistics 15(2): 287-291 10.1163/15699846-01502007, Panayiotis Pappas (2015) in the Journal of Modern Greek Studies 33(2): 422-424 DOI: 10.1353/mgs.2015.0039, Penelope Gardner-Chloros (2017a) in Language in Society 46: 272-273 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0047404517000094, and Claire Ashmore (2017b) in Discourse & Society 28(5): 559-561 https://doi.org/10.1177/0957926517711001.

EDITED VOLUME

Year/Status Title

2007 with Charles Chang & Esuna Dugarova & Elina Vilar Beltrán & Edward Wilford (eds.) CamLing 2006: Proceedings of the Fourth University of Cambridge Postgraduate Conference in Language Research. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge Institute of Language Research

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ARTICLES IN PEER REVIEWED JOURNALS

Year/Status Title

In preparation aIn preparation b

Under review a

Under review b

Under revision aUnder revision b

Under review c

Forthcoming aForthcoming b

Forthcoming c

2018a

2018b

2016a

2016b

2016c

Branding Mykonos on Facebook: A digital sociolinguistic analysisConstructing solidarity with Qatar: A sociolinguistic analysis of the landscape of DohaNostalgic diaspora or diasporic nostalgia? Discursive and identity constructions of Greeks in QatarObama’s Athens speech: Intertextuality and communicative interfaces on FacebookMultilingual interaction in construction sites in QatarUndergraduate sociolinguistic research as a vehicle for empowering women in QatarΕθνογραφία, Κατάρ και εµπάργκο (Ethnography, Qatar and embargo) (In Greek)Social class fight as a Greek political discourse. Discourse & Society 30(1)Semioscaping eutopia: Constructing Qatar as a place in Qatar Airwaysadvertisements. In Stroud, Chris, Quentin Williams and Amiena Peck (eds.) Visceral Landscapes Special Issue. Sociolinguistic Studies 19(1)With Iglal Ahmed. Negotiating gender roles in intercultural communicationin Qatar. Journal of Arabian Studies.With Julieta Alos. “Expect amazing!”: Branding Qatar as a sports tourism d e s t i n a t i o n . Vi s u a l C o m m u n i c a t i o n . h t t p s : / / d o i . o r g /10.1177/1470357218775005Impact of undergraduate language and gender research: Challenges and reflections in the context of Qatar. Gender Studies. 10.2478/genst-2018-0007 Towards a sociolinguistics of popular literature: Northern Atheniansuburbanites in Modern Greek chick lit. Discourse, Context and Media. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcm.2017.05.007Mediatized embodied sociolinguistics: On the structure, entextualization and resemiotization of Varoufakiology. Discourse, Context and Media 14: 28-39. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcm.2016.08.003Translating the style of Aganaktismenoi on Facebook. Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication 35(5): 561-582. https://doi.org/10.1515/multi-2014-1019

2015a Politeness on Facebook: The case of Modern Greek birthday wishes. In: Locher, Miriam A., Bolander, Brook, and Höhn, Nicole (eds.), Special issue: Relational Work in Facebook and Discussion Boards/Fora. Pragmatics 25(1): 23-45. https://doi.org/10.1075/prag.25.1.02the

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Year/Status Title

2015b Sociolinguistic anatomy of mobility: The case of Qatar. Language & Communication 40: 52-66. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.langcom.2014.12.010

2014a With Joseph Tyler. Perceptual dialectology of the Arab world. Al-Arabiyya 47: 21-39. http://www.jstor.org/stable/24635371

2014b

2013

With Yasser Mahgoub. Investigating traditional Qatari architecture from an interdisciplinary perspective. Humanities and Social Sciences Review 3(4): 477-485. ISSN: 2165-6258Sociolinguistic variation in Athenian Greek. Journal of Greek Linguistics 13: 28-51. DOI: 10.1163/15699846-13130104

2011 Popular literature discourses of Athenian suburbia: Northern suburbs. Articulo - Journal of Urban Research [Online], Special issue 3 | 2010, Online since 13 December 2010, connection on 11 February 2015. URL : http://articulo.revues.org/1571 DOI : 10.4000/articulo.1571

2010 The globalization of Greek language: the case of sociolinguistic meta-language. TRANS. Internet-Zeitschrift für Kulturwissenschaften. No. 1 7 / 2 0 0 8 . W W W : h t t p : / / w w w . i n s t . a t / t r a n s / 1 7 N r /2-2/2-2_theodoropoulou17.htm

2009 Discourse markers vs. interjections: An interactional sociolinguistic approach. Language Forum: A Journal of Language and Literature 35 (1): 79-97

CHAPTERS IN REFEREED BOOKS

Year/Status Title

2018a

2018b

Social status, language and society in the Arab world. In: Benmamoun, Abbas & Reem Bassiouney (eds.) The Routledge Handbook of Arabic Linguistics. Oxon: Routledge, 371-386. ISBN 9781138783331 pub: 2018-01-04 URL https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Handbook-of-Arabic-Linguistics/Benmamoun-Bassiouney/p/book/9781138783331Η δοµή και οι λειτουργίες των ερωτήσεων στον λόγο ενός Έλληνα πολιτικού [Structure and functions of questions in the speech of a male Greek politician]. Στο: Παυλίδου, Θεοδοσία-Σούλα (επιµ.) Ερωτήσεις. Δοµές - Λειτουργίες - Χρήσεις. Θεσσαλονίκη: ΙΝΣ. (In Greek)

2015a Diglossia. In: Wright, James (ed.) Elsevier International Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioral Sciences. Second Edition. Oxford: Elsevier, 417-423. ISBN 9780080970868 URL https://www.elsevier.com/books/international-encyclopedia-of-the-social-andampamp-behavioral-sciences/wright/978-0-08-097086-8

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2015b Διεπιδραστική κοινωνιογλωσσολογία [Interactional sociolinguistics]. Στο: Γεωργαλίδου, Μαριάνθη, Μαρία Σηφιανού, Βίλλυ Τσάκωνα (επιµ.) Ανάλυση Λόγου: Θεωρία και Εφαρµογές. Αθήνα: Εκδόσεις Νήσος, 234-267. (In Greek) ISBN 9789609535854 URL https://www.politeianet.gr/books/9789609535854-sullogiko-nisos-analusi-logou-239892

2015c Intercultural communicative styles in Qatar: Greek and Qataris. In: Raddawi, Rana (ed.) Intercultural Communication with Arabs: Studies in Education, Professional, and Societal Contexts. New York: Springer, 11-26. ISBN 978-981-287-254-8 URL http://www.springer.com/la/book/9789812872531

2014 Facebook talk: An interactional analysis of Aganaktismenoi Wall discussions. In: Christodoulidou Maria (ed.) Greek Talk-in-Interaction. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 262-289. ISBN 978-1-4438-6168-7 URL http://www.cambridgescholars.com/analyzing-greek-talk-in-interaction

2013 Sociolinguistic profile of the Generation of 700 Euros. In: Frangaki, Georgia, Thanassis Georgakopoulos and Charalambos Themistocleous (eds.) Current Trends in Greek Linguistics. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 177-196. ISBN 978-1443840255 URL https://www.amazon.com/Current-Trends-Linguistics-Georgia-Fragaki/dp/1443840254

2010a A stylistic perspective on Athenian suburbia as a culture of conflicting social constructities. In: Baumbach, Sibylle (ed.) Regions of Culture – Regions of Identity. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 151-174.

2010b Authentication of the Athenian ‘new-rich’ and ‘new-poor’ suburbanite identities. In: Parpală, Emilia & Carmen Popescu (eds.) Comunicare, Identitate, Cultură [Communication, Identity, Culture]. Craiova: Editura Universitaria, 219-232.

2008 Football register formation: The case of Greece’s triumph in EURO 2004. In: Lavric, Eva & Gerhard Pisek & Andrew Skinner & Wolfgang Stadler (eds.) The Linguistics of Football (Language in Performance, vol 38). Tübingen: Gunter Narr, 333-342.

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ARTICLES IN CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

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2013

With Iglal Ahmed. Negotiating gender roles in intercultural communication in Qatar. In: Proceedings of the IAFOR Conference on International Education 2016. Hawaii, USA, 8-11 January.

With Yasser Mahgoub. The sociolinguistic meanings of traditional architecture: A study of Qatari traditional architecture. In: Proceedings of the Third National Built Heritage Forum 2013. Al Madinah Al-Munawwarah, Saudi Arabia, 8-12 December.

2010a From style to identity via indexicality. In: Meyerhoff, Miriam, Chie Adachi, Agata Daleszynska and Anna Strycharz (eds.) The Proceedings of Edinburgh Summer School of Sociolinguistics 2010. http://www.lel.ed.ac.uk/sssocio/proceedings/Irene.pdf (08/08/2011)

2010b Stylistic meaning in interaction. In: Proceedings of the i-mean@uwe Conference (Meaning in Interaction). University of the West of England, Bristol, 23-25 Apri l 2009. ht tp: / /www.uwe.ac.uk/hlss/ l las/events/0809/i-mean/conferenceproceedings.pdf (08/08/2011)

2010c Parodying northern suburban Athenian speech style. In: Proceedings of the 5th Athens Postgraduate Conference in Linguistics. University of Athens, 29-31 May 2009 . http://athenslinguistics.web.officelive.com/Documents/Proceedings5.pdf (08/08/2011)

2009a Speech style as persuasion mechanism. In: Giannakis, Giorgos K. & Mary Baltazani & Giorgos I. Xydopoulos & Tasos Tsaggalidis (eds.) Proceedings of the International Conference on Greek Linguistics 8, 489-502. http://www.linguist-uoi.gr/cd_web/docs/english/037_theodoropoulouICGL_OK.pdf (08/08/2011)

2009b Speech style and meta-representations: Acts of (dis)affiliation. In: Weigand, Edda (ed.) Dialogue Analysis XI. Proceedings of the IADA 11th Conference on ‚Dialogue Analysis and Rhetoric’, University of Münster, March 26-30, 2007. Volume 2/08, 363-377. h t t p : / / w w w . u n i - m u e n s t e r . d e / L i n g / i a d a / d o w n l o a d /iada.online.series_volume02.pdf(08/08/2011)

2009c Τρεις στρατηγικές πειθούς και η διδασκαλία τους (Three persuasion strategies and their teaching) [In Greek]. In: Proceedings of the Workshop on Theatre and Rhetoric in Education: Shared Dreams and Visions, Athens, 20 December 2008. http://rhetoricineducation.com/επιµορφωτικές-δράσεις/ (08/08/2011)

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Year/Status Title

2007 Μετάφραση και ιδιολεκτική ποικιλότητα (Translation & idiolectal variability) [In Greek]. In: Proceedings of the First Meeting of Greek Translatologists. Thessaloniki: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.http://my.enl.auth.gr/translation/PDF/Theodoropoulou.pdf (08/08/2011)

BOOK REVIEWS – BOOK NOTESYear Book review

2017

2013a

Book review of Ingrid Piller (2016). Linguistic Diversity and Social Justice. An Introduction to Applied Sociolinguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Sociolinguistic Studies 11(2-4): 461–465.

Book note on David Machin (2010). Analysing Popular Music: Sound, Image, Text. London: Sage. Discourse and Society 24(4), 508-510.

2013b Book review of Alastair Pennycook (2012). Language and Mobility: Unexpected Places. London & Clevedon: Multilingual Matters. Linguistlist.org (http://linguistlist.org/issues/24/24-2566.html, posted on 2/7/2013)

2012a Book review of Dimitris Koutsogiannis (2011). Digital Literacy Practices and Identities. Thessaloniki: Center of Hellenic Language. Glossologia 20, 89-93. (In Greek)

2012b Book note of Abdellah Chekayri (2011). An Introduction to Moroccan Arabic and Culture. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press. Elanguage (http://elanguage.net/blogs/booknotices/?p=2173, posted on 2/7/2012)

2011a Book review of Bróna Murphy (2010). Corpus and Sociolinguistics. Investigating age and gender in female talk. Elanguage. (http://www.elanguage.net/blogs/booknotices/?p=1933, posted on 9/1/2012)

2011b Book review of Peter Garrett (2010). Attitudes to Language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Elanguage. (http://elanguage.net/blogs/booknotices/?m=201111, posted on 26/11/2011)

2011c Book review of Graeme Trousdale (2010). An Introduction to English Sociolinguistics. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. Elanguage (http://elanguage.net/blogs/booknotices/?m=201111, posted on 29/11/2011)

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Year Book review

2010a Book review of Costas Canakis, Venetia Kantsa & Kostas Yiannakopoulos (eds.) (2010). Language and Sexuality (through and) beyond Gender. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. (http://linguistlist.org/pubs/reviews/get-review.cfm?subid=4529781, posted on 6/11/2011)

2010b Book note on Kimberly Jones & Tsuyoshi Ono (eds.) (2008). Style Shifting in Japanese. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. Elanguage (http://elanguage.net/blogs/booknotices/?p=1684, posted on 11/8/2011)

2010c Book note on Jennifer Hay, Margaret Maclagan & Elizabeth Gordon (2008). Dialects of English. New Zealand English. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. Language in Society 39(2), 295-296.

2010d Book note on Paulo Quaglio (2009). Television Dialogue. The sitcom Friends vs. natural conversation. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company. Elanguage (http://elanguage.net/blogs/booknotices/, posted on 21/3/2010)

2010e Book note on Alexandra Jaffe (ed.) (2009) Stance. Sociolinguistic Perspectives. New York: Oxford University Press. Elanguage (http://elanguage.net/blogs/booknotices/, posted on 18/3/2010)

2008a Book review of Marjorie Harness Goodwin (2006). The Hidden Life of Girls. Games of Stance, Status and Exclusion. Malden, Massachusetts, and Oxford, U.K.: Blackwell Publishers. Journal of Sociolinguistics 12(5), 705-9

2008b Book review of Vally Lytra (2007). Play Frames and Social Identities. Contact Encounters in a Greek Primary School. Pragmatics and Beyond New Series. Amsterdam/Phi ladelphia: John Benjamins . Linguis t l i s t (h t tp : / /www.linguistlist.org/issues/19/19-2105.html, posted on 08/08/2011)

NON ACADEMIC BOOKS & OUTPUTS

Year Title

20162014a

With Jana Masri. A Mini Guide on Nonverbal Communication with Arabs. With Yasser Mahgoub, Amal Al Abaidli, Nahed Al Zoabi, Moza Al Thani, Amal Hourani, Sara Al Sada & Abeer Abou Nadi. An Illustrated Glossary of Traditional Qatari Architecture. Bilingual edition in English and Arabic.

2014b With Yasser Mahgoub, Amal Al Abaidli, Nahed Al Zoabi, Moza Al Thani, Amal Hourani, Sara Al Sada & Abeer Abou Nadi. Doha Malawal (Doha in the past). Bilingual board game in English and Arabic.

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CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

Year Conference

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2018b

2018c

Constructing solidarity with Qatar: A sociolinguistic analysis of the landscape of Doha. Oral presentation at the Globalising Sociolinguistics (GloSoc2) ‘Communicating in the city’ conference. Leiden University, The Netherlands, 13-15 December. Branding Mykonos on Facebook: A digital sociolinguistic analysis. Oral presentation at the Sociolinguistics Symposium 22. University of Auckland, New Zealand, 26-30 June.Language, power and interaction in construction sites in Qatar. Oral presentation at the colloquium ‘Managing people with language: language policy, planning, and practice in multilingual blue-collar workplaces’ at the Sociolinguistics Symposium 22. University of Auckland, New Zealand, 26-30 June.

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2015a

Obama’s Athens speech: Intertextuality and communicative interfaces on Facebook. Oral presentation at the 25th Modern Greek Studies Association Symposium. Stockton University, USA, 2-5 November.Social class fight as a Greek political discourse. Oral presentation at the 4th International Conference on Languaging Diversity (Language and Social Class). University of Cagliari, Italy, 28-30 September.

Goodbye, Mr. Bond! Speech style change and mediatized authenticity of 007's villains. Poster presentation at the New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV) 45 conference. Simon Fraser University and the University of Victoria, 3-6 November.(Non)verbal structure of a Greek politician’s questions. Oral presentation at the Symposium on Modern Greek questions and answers. Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 13-15 October.Attitudes to the Qatari dialect: Solidarity and prestige. Oral presentation at the Panel on covert prestige of local non-standard codes in the Arab world, organized by Reem Bassiouney and Valentina Serreli. Sociolinguistics Symposium 21, University of Murcia, Spain, 15-18 June.Using sociolinguistic research as a vehicle for empowering women. Oral presentation at the Women’s Studies Circle. Georgetown University in Qatar, 30 March.With Iglal Ahmed. Negotiating gender roles in intercultural communication in Qatar. Oral presentation at the IAFOR International Conference on Education 2016. The Hawaii Convention Center, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, 8-11 January.

Greek politics is cool again: On the structure, entextualization and resemiotization of Varoufakiology. Oral presentation at the 6th International Language in the Media conference. University of Hamburg, Germany, 7-9 September.

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Year Conference

2015b “Doctor, give me another chance!”: Im/politeness in email correspondence between students and faculty members. Oral presentation at the 9th International Im-Politeness conference. University of Athens, Greece, 1-3 July.

2015c Sociolinguistic anatomy of mobility: Evidence from Qatar. Oral presentation at the The Sociolinguistics of Globalization: (De)centring and (de)standardization conference. The University of Hong Kong, 3-6 June 2015.

2015d Social class and super-diversity. Oral presentation in Georgetown UniversityRoundtable (GURT 2015). Georgetown, Washington DC, 7-9 March 2015.

2014a Social class reflections in a superdiverse city: Western expats in Doha, Qatar. Poster presentation at the Sociolinguistics Symposium 20. Jyväskylä, Finland, 15-18 June.

2014b with Yasser Mahgoub. Social semiotics of traditional Qatari architecture: An interdisciplinary approach. Oral presentation at the Encompassing the Multimodality of Knowledge Conference. Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark, 8-10 May.

2014c From utopia to eutopia: Linguistic and multimodal realizations of hope in the landscape of Qatar. Oral presentation at Linguistic Landscapes 6 Conference. University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa, 9-11 April.

2013a With Yasser Mahgoub, Amal Al Abaidli, Amal Hourani, Nahed Al Zoabi, Sara Al Sada, Moza Al Thani and Abeer Abu Nadi. The sociolinguistic meanings of traditional architecture: A study of Qatari traditional architecture. Oral presentation at the Third National Built Heritage Forum. Al Madinah Al-Munawwarah, Saudi Arabia, 8-12 December.

2013b With Yasser Mahgoub, Amal Al Abaidli, Amal Hourani, Nahed Al Zoabi, Sara Al Sada, Moza Al Thani and Abeer Abu Nadi. An interdisciplinary approach to the study of traditional Qatari architecture. Poster presentation at the Qatar Foundation Annual Research Conference 2013, Doha, Qatar, 24-25 November.

2013c Between offline and online Qatar: Sociolinguistics of global identities and culture(s). Oral presentation at the 1st ISLE (Post-)Doctoral Spring School "Englishes in a Multilingual World: New Dynamics of Variation, Contact and Change", University of Freiburg, 15–19 April.

2012a Social class from a globalized sociolinguistic perspective: a case study of Qatar. Oral presentation at the 13th Language and Society Conference. University of Auckland, 28-29 November.

2012b Translating the style of Aganaktismenoi on Facebook. Oral presentation at the conference ‘Greece in Translation’. Oxford University, 5-6 October.

2012c Language, social class, and globalization in contemporary Qatar. Oral presentation (in absentia) at the conference ‘Ethnography of Communication: The Ways Forward’, Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska, 10-14 June.

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Year Conference

2012d Sociolinguistics of the ‘right to the city’: the case of contemporary Athens. Oral presentation in the panel titled ‘Urban linguistic practice and performance in the Greek-speaking city’. Sociolinguistics Symposium 19, Freie Universität Berlin, 21-24 August.

2012e Sociolinguistics of revolution in world’s capital cities: from organization to realization. Panel in sociolinguistics Symposium 19, Freie Universität Berlin, 21-24 August.

2011a Qatar’s postmodern culture: Evidence from its (socio)linguistic landscape. Oral presentation at the Comparativism, Identity, Communication (CIC 2011) International Conference. University of Craiova, Romania, 21-22 October.

2011b Sociolinguistic variation in Athenian suburban Greek. Oral presentation at the 10th International Conference on Greek Linguistics (ICGL). Democritus University of Thrace, 1-4 September.

2011c with Andwatta Barnes & Abdou Ndoye & Sam Meekings (2011). Assessing second language learners’ critical thinking skills in Higher education. Oral presentation at the 2011 Qatar (Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages) TESOL Conference, College of North Atlantic, Doha, 8-9 April.

2010a Meta-representations of Athenian suburban social classes: A discursive analytic approach. Oral presentation at the Faculty Presentation series of the Department of English Literature and Linguistics, Qatar University, 8 December.

2010b Sociolinguistic variation and social class in contemporary Athens, Greece. Oral presentation in the Panel ‘Explaining Class’. NWAV 39, San Antonio, Texas, 4-6 November.

2010c Between popular and actual culture: Style across genres. Oral presentation at the Sociolinguistics Symposium 18. Southampton, UK, 1-4 September.

2010d Thanks everyone for your wishes’. A typology of politeness stylistic features in the reception of birthday wishes on Facebook. Oral presentation at the Fifth International Symposium on Politeness. University of Basel, Switzerland, 30 June–2 July.

2009a Stylization in Athenian Greek: A case study of Western suburbanites stylizing Northern suburbanites. Oral presentation at the 9th International Conference on Greek Linguistics. University of Chicago, 29-31 October.

2009b Double-voicing in Modern Greek. Oral presentation at the 12th International Conference on Dialogue Analysis: Polyphony and Intertextuality in Discourse. Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, 15-18 September.

2009c Interactional variation in Athenian Greek. Invited oral presentation at the 5th International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 5). Copenhagen, 25-27 June.

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2009d Stylistic meaning in interaction. Oral presentation at the i-mean@uwe Conference (Meaning in Interaction). University of the West of England, Bristol, 23-25 April.

2008a Popular culture representations of suburban Athens: Τhe case of Northern suburbs. Paper presented at the Interdisciplinary Conference in the Humanities & Social Sciences: Revisiting the 'Urban' and the 'Rural': Spatial Representations and Practices. Luxembourg, 4-5 December.

2008b Constructing gender in Greek popular culture: The case of Northern suburban Athenian women. Paper presented at the Postgraduate Conference: Gender and Identity in Contemporary Greece. Oxford University, 18 October.

2008c Indexicality, style and conversation. Presentation at the Sociolinguisticsfest 2008 Workshop. University of Indiana in Bloomington, 13 June.

2008d Stylization as a mechanism for denaturalizing identity. Presentation at the Arizona Linguistics & Anthropology Symposium. University of Arizona in Tucson, 9-11 May.

2008e Social class construction through speech style: Evidence from Modern Greek. Presentation at the Sociolinguistics Symposium 17: Micro and Macro Connections. Amsterdam, 3-5 April.

2008f Athenian suburban speech style(s): Kifisia vs. Peristeri. Invited presentation at the Modern Greek Section Graduate Seminar 2008, held at the Faculty of Modern & Medieval Languages, University of Cambridge. Cambridge, 17 January.

2007a Where IS and VS meet: The case of speech style. Oral presentation at the 8th International Conference on Greek Linguistics. University of Ioannina, 26-29 August.

2007b Speech style as persuasion mechanism. Oral presentation at the 11th International Conference on Dialogue Analysis and Rhetoric. Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, 26-30 March.

2007c The use of interjections in comics. Invited poster presentation at the Georgetown University Round Table 2007 “Little Words: Their History, Phonology, Semantics, Pragmatics, and Acquisition. Washington, DC, 8-11 March.

2007d On the interaction between questionhood and politeness: Evidence from intonation. Poster presented (in absentia) at the 2007 International Conference on Linguistics in Korea. Seoul, 19-20 January.

2006 A comparative study between SBE and Standard Greek Question Intonation: barriers of Politeness. Oral presentation at the LangUE 2006, 30 June, University of Essex.

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COURSES TAUGHT (at Qatar University and King’s College London)

Introduction to Language

Introduction to Linguistics

Sociolinguistics

Sociolinguistics (Honors)

Capstone Integrated Skills in Sociolinguistics

Language & Gender

Language & Society

Language & Media (self-designed course)

Discourse Analysis

Intercultural Communication

Seminar in Language & Linguistics: Sociolinguistics of Computer-Mediated Discourse (self-designed course)

Topics in Linguistics: Bilingualism

History of English

Advanced Reading Comprehension

English for Diplomatic Purposes

Modern Greek for Beginners and Advanced students

Modern Greek Society and Culture (post 1974) (self-designed course)

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UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT RESEARCH PROJECT SUPERVISION

1) Moza Al Thani, Nahed Al Zoabi, Amal Al Abaidli, Amal Hourani, Sara Al Sada & Abeer Abou Nadi. An Illustrated Glossary of Traditional Qatari Architecture. September 2012 - September 2013. Joint UREP project supervision with Dr. Yasser Mahgoub, Department of Architecture & Urban Planning, Qatar University. 4th prize in the Qatar National Research Fund UREP competition 2014.

2) Walaa Kassem. Representations of Palestine in Arab social media. September - December 2013

3) Tasnim Ali & Zeinab Mohammed. A comparative study between Sudanese female and male students' use of slang. September - December 2014.

4) Sara Hassary, Sara Al Qawassimi & Noha Selim. Sociolinguistic variation and change in Bahrain. September - December 2014. Best Undergraduate Student Research Poster in the Qatar University Annual Research Forum. May 2015.

5) Naeema Al Yahari & Haia Al Kubaisi. Female discourses in the Holy Qur'an: A discourse analysis. September - December 2015.

6) Maryam Doghan. Sociolinguistic analysis of the linguistic landscape of Souq Waqif. September - December 2015.

7) Laura Hansen & Hedayh Al Hajri. Representations of Syrian refugees in German and Saudi Arabian media. September - December 2015.

8) Juman Al Kadi, Afraa Al Marri and Ethar Al Nour. Code switching patterns among Qatar University students. February - June 2016.

9) Reham Al Soraihi & Bibi Rahima Abou Taleb. Snapchat use by Khaliji and South Asian female artists: Language and semiosis. February - June 2016.

10) Yasmin El Ali. Perceptual dialectology of the Arab world by Qataris and Palestinians. February - June 2018.

11) Shahd Abuhussein & Lolwa Al-Thani. Discourse analysis of Sheikh Tamim’s speeches after the 5th of June 2017. February - June 2018.

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12) Moza Al-Ghanim, Mariam Al-Zeyara, Dana Al-Subaie & Budour Sayyed Ahmad. Negotiating national identity on Twitter before and after the diplomatic crisis in Qatar. February - June 2018.

13) Bayan Alkahlout, Hadil Alkaiat, Ghufran Amin & Hesa Bbahzad. Constructing solidarity with Qatar in social media: Qataris and Egyptians. February - June 2018.

SCHOLARSHIPS

Year Scholarship

2009 Bursary (registration fee waiver) from the Organizing Committee of the Sociolinguistics Symposium 18

2009 The New York Institute Minigrant

2008-2010 Alexander Onassis Scholarship. Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation

2008 Scholarship from the International Federation of Arts Councils & Culture Agencies (IFACCA)

2007-2009 Foundation for Education and European Culture (Ίδρυµα Παιδείας και Ευρωπαϊκού Πολιτισµού) Scholarship

2007-2010 Greek State Scholarships Foundation (IKY) Scholarship

2006 Department of Byzantine & Modern Greek Studies Library Studentship 2006/2007. King’s College London.

2005 Sophia Savvidou’ Scholarship. Alumni Association of Filekpedeftiki Etaireia Schools (SAFE)

2005 Alexander Onassis Scholarship. Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation

2005 University of Edinburgh UK/EU Master’s Scholarship (declined)

2005 George and Marie Vergottis Cambridge Bursary

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Year Scholarship

2004 The International Summer Program of 2004 - University of Vienna Scholarship

2002 Herder Scholarship for studies in linguistics at the University of Vienna, Austria, after recommendation of Professor Georgios Babiniotis, former Rector of the University of Athens and holder of the Herder Prize 2002.

2000-2004 IKY Scholarship. Greek State Scholarships Foundation

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ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICE

2018-today

2017-today

2017-2018

2015-2016

2015-2016

2015-2016

2015-2016

2014-2015

2014-2015

2013-2014

2012–2013

2012-2013

2012-2013

2012-2013

2012-2014

2010-2015

Chair of the Department of English Literature & Linguistics Student Success Committee (department’s representative in the CAS Student Success Committee)Member of the Scientific committee of the Conference on Asian Linguistic Anthropology 2019 Chair of the Department of English Literature & Linguistics Engagement and Activities Committee (department’s representative in the CAS Engagement Committee)Chair of the Department of English Literature & Linguistics Research CommitteeMember of the Department of English Literature & Linguistics Hiring CommitteeMember of the Department of English Literature & Linguistics Student Activities CommitteeMember of the Qatar University College of Arts and Sciences Outreach Committee (Organization of Greek Studies Day 2016 and Sports & Society Workshop 2016)Chair of the Department of English Literature & Linguistics Student Activities CommitteeMember of the Department of English Literature & Linguistics Hiring CommitteeMember of the Qatar University College of Arts and Sciences Research CommitteeMember of the Academic Program Review Committee (Department of English Literature & Linguistics)Member of the Faculty Annual Review Committee (Department of English Literature & Linguistics)Chair of the Department of English Literature and Linguistics Outreach CommitteeChair of the Department of English Literature and Linguistics Program Learning Outcomes CommitteeMember of the Department of English Literature and Linguistics, Qatar University Strategic Plan CommitteeMember of the Assessment Committee of the Department of English Literature and Linguistics, Qatar University

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2010-2011

2011

2008–2009

2008

Member of the ‘Distinguished Lecture Series and Distinguished Professorships’ committee in the Department of English Literature & Linguistics, Qatar UniversityMember of the organizing committee of the conference ‘Linguistics in the Gulf 3’, 6-7 March 2011Research student representative in the Department of Byzantine & Modern Greek Studies (King’s College London)Co-organizer of the Workshop on Theatre and Rhetoric in Education: Shared Dreams and Vi s ions , A thens , 20 December 2008 . h t t p : / /rhetoricineducation.com/επιµορφωτικές-δράσεις/

2006 – 2008 Research Students Representative in the Language, Discourse and Communication Centre Management Group (King’s College London)

2007 Coordinator of the Modern Greek Studies Postgraduate Seminar at the Byzantine & Modern Greek Studies Department, King’s College London

2006 Treasurer in the CamLing 2006 Organizing Committee, Cambridge University

ACADEMIC REVIEWING

Journal of Sociolinguistics, Language in Society, Sociolinguistic Studies, Discourse & Society, Discourse, Context and Media, Discourse & Communication, Linguistic Landscape Journal, Applied Linguistics, Language Policy, Journal of Politeness Research, Glossologia, Brno Studies in English, International Journal of the Sociology of Language, Journal of Modern Greek Studies, Aegean Working Papers in Ethnographic Linguistics, Arab World English Journal, International Journal of Applied Linguistics and English Literature, Benjamins.

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PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

Hellenic Association for the Promotion of Rhetoric in Education – cofounder and memberLinguistic Society of America - memberUK Linguistic Ethnography Forum - memberInternational Association for Dialogue Analysis (IADA) - memberCambridge University Linguistics Society - memberModern Greek Studies Association - memberHellenic Society for Terminology (ELETO) - memberInternational Pragmatics Association (IPrA) - memberOnassis Scholars Association - member

SUMMER SCHOOLS

2010 International Summer School: Sociolinguistic Perspectives (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)Coursework in sociolinguistics

Summer School of Sociolinguistics (University of Edinburgh, Scotland)Coursework in sociolinguistics

2009 The New York – St. Petersburg Institute of Linguistics, Cognition and Culture (St. Petersburg, Russia)St. Petersburg State UniversityState University of New York (SUNY)Coursework in language and gender and in language and music

2008 Summer School ‘Regions of Culture – Regions of Identity’University of Giessen, University of Marburg (Giessen/Marburg, Germany)Coursework in cultural geography and cultural studies

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2005

2004

2003

Alfred Toepfer Foundation F.V.S & Haus Rissen – International Institute for Politics and Economics (Hamburg, Germany)Coursework in European politics

International Summer Program of 2004 University of Vienna (Strobl, Austria)Certificate with distinction in European art, history, contemporary politics

Civic Concepts International - International Youth Leadership Conference (Prague, Czech Republic)Participation in a week-long youth forum on world politics, international relations and justice

Catholic University of Lublin – 10th Central European Summer School in Generative Grammar (Lublin, Poland)Coursework in phonology, semantics, syntax, language and mind

WORK AND RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

2009 - 2010 Modern Greek language teacher (GCSE level) at the St. Cyprian Greek-Cypriot Community School in London, UKFreelance researcher for the Oxbridge Research Group (sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, applied linguistics, Modern Greek language)Language reviewer for Medefield

2007 - 2010 Tutor in Linguistics, Ancient Greek, Latin and Modern Greek. Cambridge Blue Tutors

2007 Library assistant. Maughan Library, King’s College London. Greek title cataloguing

2005 Member of research team investigating the pronunciation of –r- in Boston area. Conducting interviews with native Cambridge, MA firemen, processing the interview transcripts with VARBRUL. This work has been done during June – August 2005 in the framework of the summer course “Introduction to Sociolinguistics”, given by Penelope Eckert and Norma Mendoza – Denton in the Linguistics Society of America Summer Biannual Institute, held in Harvard/MIT

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Member of research team investigating and codifying Bima language (Nggahi Mbojo), which belongs to the Austronesian languages and is being spoken in East Samoa Islands in Indonesia. My team’s task was to interview a native speaker of that language and try to elicit as much grammatical and pragmatic information as we can, in order to create a Bima – English lexicon (Shoebox/Toolbox) and a Grammar. Apart from that, I have conducted a small research concerning politeness vs. rudeness formations in Bima language (June-August 2005)

2003 - 2005 Member of research team of the program with title: ‘Design and development of flexible systems of digital management of lingual resources with application in the Greek and Latin Language’ (October 2003-June 2005). Instructor: Professor Maria Voutsinou – Kikilia, University of Athens)

Instructor of Rhetorical Art in the Evening Groups of Arsakeia and Tositseia Schools in Athens, Greece (October 2003 – June 2005)

MEDIA APPEARANCES AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT

Interview to Mr. Benjamin Plackett at Al Fanar Media about traditional architecture in Qatar: http://www.al-fanarmedia.org/2016/02/a-qatari-researcher-scrambles-to-document-early-doha/ (accessed 21/9/2018)

Radio interview to Mr. Periklis Vasilopoulos in ERA1 (“Athens Calling” show) on the 30th of November 2015 (in Greek)

Contributor to the blog “Qatar Quick” with an article on who Qataris are. https://qatarquick.com/author/irene-theodoropoulou (accessed 21/9/2018)

Member of Honorary Cultural Ambassadors Program, Qatar Museums.

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LANGUAGES

Greek native

English second language

German fluent

Ancient Greek advanced (reading and translation skills)

Latin

Modern Standard Arabic

advanced (reading and translation skills)

intermediate

Turkish basicRussian basicBima fieldwork

COMPUTER SKILLS

Varbrul, Praat, SPSS, Shoebox/Toolbox, Elan, Atlas.ti, Blackboard

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