Academic Career
Higher Education
- 2011 – 2018 Bar Ilan University, Department of French Culture, PhD. Dissertation: “A Discursive and Rhetorical Analysis of the Keyword Cultural Diversity in Institutional Discourses” (French).
- 2007 – 2010 Universidad de Buenos Aires, Courses in Cultural Studies and Semiotics.
- 2003 – 2006 Bar Ilan University, Department of French Culture, MA (Cum Laude). Thesis: “The Semiotics of Up and Down in Albert Camus’ La Chute” (94).
Research Grants
- 2022 Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut Essen, International Postdoctoral Fellowship
- 2020 Paul Desmarais Centre for the Study of French Culture, European Forum at the Hebrew University, Individual Research Grant
- 2011 – 2014 Bar-Ilan University’s Presidential Grant for Outstanding PhD Candidates
Research Interests
- Rhetorical Argumentation and Qualitative Discourse Analysis
- Institutional Discourse
- Expert discourse, science communication
- Conceptual history and global intellectual history
- Transfer, mediation and translation of concepts, intercultural communication
Selection of five publications
- “Rhetorical Strategies of Legitimacy and Authority in Times of Covid-19: The Case of Belgian PM Wilmès”, Argumentation et Analyse du Discours 28. (French) [going online April 15]
- “Metaphors of Cultural Diversity at UNESCO: Legitimation Strategies of a New Keyword in Institutional Discourse”, Metaphor and the Social World 12(2). DOI: 10.1075/msw.20018.kor
- “The Cultural Factor in Discourse Analysis: The Polemic between France and the US Regarding the Meaning of Cultural Diversity”, Le Discours et la Langue 12.1 (French).
- “Biodiversity and Cultural Diversity: Trajectory of an Analogy (2001-2010)”,Argumentation et Analyse du Discours 21 (French). DOI: 10.4000/aad.2711
- “Towards a Rhetorical and Argumentative Analysis of the ‘Petite Phrase’ ‘Culture Isn’t a Commodity Like Any Other’ (1993-1999)”. Mots. Les Langages du Politique 117:19-33 (French). DOI : 10.4000/mots.23215