About

I am currently an Adjunct Professor of Rhetoric at Deree, the American University of Greece, after having served as a Professor of Linguistics at Qatar University, where I have spent over a decade convincing students that the way people talk is at least as fascinating as what they actually say. Armed with a Ph.D. in Sociolinguistics from King's College London, an M.Phil. from Cambridge, and a BA summa cum laude from the University of Athens, I have accumulated enough degrees to keep several universities warm.

My research spans sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, rhetoric, intercultural communication, and their intersections with politics, popular culture, social media, and artificial intelligence. In other words, I study how humans talk, brand, argue, scroll, and prompt their way through life. I am the author of Sociolinguistics of Speech Style and Social Class in Contemporary Athens (Benjamins, 2014) and co-editor of the Routledge Companion to Language and Country Branding (Routledge, 2021), proof that academic books can have glamorous titles.

Never one to stay in a single lane, I have recently added Google-certified UX Design and a certificate in Human-Computer Interaction to my toolkit, bringing a linguist's eye for human behavior to the art of designing experiences that actually make sense to people. It turns out that understanding how humans communicate and understanding how they navigate interfaces are not so different after all.

I have received Teaching and Research Excellence Awards from Qatar University, multiple research grants, and I have also been shortlisted for two international awards in 2025, because overachieving is apparently a lifestyle.

When not decoding James Bond villains' speech styles or Qatar's World Cup branding, I can be found either singing with the Qatar Concert Choir, dancing with the Qatar Greek Folk Dancing Group, or representing Greece as a Qatar Museums Honorary Cultural Ambassador, which is essentially fieldwork with better costumes. 😉