Cornelia Ilie (Professor and PhD) is a reseracher at Strömstad Academy, Sweden. She was Professor of Linguistics and Rhetoric at Malmö University, Sweden and Visiting Professor at the Hellenic American University, Athens, Greece. She was research fellow at Lancaster University, UK and research scholar at U.C. Berkeley, and held visiting professorships at universities in Austria, Finland, Greece, Italy, Romania, Spain, and the UK. She is the founder and president of ESTIDIA (European Society for Transcultural and Interdisciplinary Dialogue). Her research interests are mainly interdisciplinary and she has published extensively on intercultural rhetoric and argumentation, political, media and academic discourses. She has authored the following books: The use of English in institutional and business settings: An intercultural perspective (Peter Lang, 2007); European parliaments under scrutiny: Discourse strategies and interaction practices (John Benjamins, 2010); Evolving genres in web-mediated communication (Peter Lang, 2012); Argumentation across communities of practice: Multi-disciplinary perspectives (John Benjamins 2017); Challenging leadership stereotypes through discourse: Power, management and gender (Springer 2017).

E-mails: cornelia.ilie@stromstadakademi.se, cornelia.ilie@gmail.com