Postdoc research: "Multimodal indicators of mainstream populism in Greek politicians’ interaction"
Supervisor: Assistant Professor Pantelis Vatikiotis
Argyro Kantara studied theology in the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and English language and literature at the Kapodistrian University of Athens. She completed her Masters’ degrees in teaching english for specific purposes (TESP) at Aston University, social research methods at Open University and her PhD on hybridity in election campaign interviews in the Center for Language and Communication Research, Cardiff University. She is currently working on her postdoctoral research on the relationship between multimodality and mainstream populism under the supervision of assistant professor Pantelis Vatikiotis.
Argyro has worked as an EFL/ESP/EAP teacher and freelance translator. Currently she words as a University Teacher in the Cardiff School of Modern Languages, and as an External Postgraduate Research Supervisor at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David, UK. As an hourly paid lecturer, she has taught the following modules: Understanding Communication (Cardiff University), Language in Society, Language, Power and Ideology, Communication and the Workplace (University of South Wales). She has worked as a postgraduate seminar tutor in the following modules: Introduction to Language, Introduction to Media Communication, Language and the Mind, Understanding Communication, How Language Works II, Reading and Writing in the Digital Age (Cardiff University). Argyro has worked at IST College as Head of English Language Programmes, Co-ordinator of the English Language, Communication and Literature Programme and lecturer in the following modules: Language and Mind, Introduction to Language and Communication, Issues in English, Meaning and Interpretation. She has supervised UG dissertations in areas such as: Dyslexia and TEFL, Teaching Productive Skills to Young Learners, Discourse Analysis of Advertisements, and Language Disorders in Aphasic patients, IST College, Greece. She has supervised MA dissertations in areas such as: critical discourse analysis of newspapers, corpus linguistics, forensic linguistics, language of social media. Twice she has contributed to the MA Research Experience Module (Cardiff University). She is currently supervising MA dissertations in penal populism and interaction in police call centres, and Prof Doc theses in areas such as: multimodality and translation, gender and translation, literary translation, use of metaphors in economic news, gendered classroom interaction, academic discourse analysis, intercultural communication competence.
Argyro has published articles and chapters in edited volumes on journalism, political communication, populism, intercultural and professional communication. External profiles:
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5885-1287
Research Gate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Argyro_Kantara
Academia: https://cardiff.academia.edu/ArgyroKantara
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=isqoJu4AAAAJ
