Rosana Villares
Assistant professor in English for Specific Purposes
Hello! I am an assistant professor at the University of Zaragoza and a member of the Digital Science Lab affiliated to the BIFI Research Institute and part of the research project GENCI 2.0 (Digital Genres and Open Science).
My main research interests are genre analysis and digital scientific communication, especially the dissemination of scientific knowledge on social media platforms, and how researchers use language and other semiotic resources to communicate to expert and non-expert audiences. I have also carried out research on corpus linguistics, internationalisation, and English for academic purposes.
In December 2019, I received my PhD in English Studies after defending my thesis, written under the supervision of Prof. Carmen Pérez-Llantada, where I examined the role of English and language strategies in the internationalisation of Spanish higher education from a top-down point of view, using corpus linguistics and critical discourse analysis. I have also been a visiting scholar at the Economic University of Bucharest (2017) and the University of Birmingham (2018). You can read my CV here and on LinkedIn.
If you want to get in touch, you can find me at rvillares@unizar.es