SHORT CV

Salomi Boukala is Associate Professor of Critical Discourse Analysis in the Department of Social Anthropology at Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, Athens, Greece. She holds a BA in Social Anthropology and Social Policy from Panteion University, an MA in Mass Communications from the University of Leicester (UK), and a PhD in Linguistics from Lancaster University (UK), where she specialized in Critical Discourse Analysis under the supervision of Distinguished Professor Ruth Wodak, one of the leading scholars in the field.

Her doctoral research adopted an interdisciplinary approach, integrating theories and methodologies from Critical Discourse Studies (CDS) with key perspectives from the social sciences. Through its multi-level analytical framework, the her thesis contributed to both Discourse Studies and Political Sciences by demonstrating the value of interdisciplinary research for the study of language, society, and politics.

She currently serves as Director of the Institute for Political Research at the National Centre for Social Research (EKKE) and is the Principal Investigator of the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation (HFRI)-funded project Crisis Narratives: Beyond Pandemic Discourses in Greece (CRITIC).

Salomi Boukala has participated in several major international research projects, including the European Commission-funded projects INFOCORE: (In)forming Conflict Prevention, Response and Resolution – The Role of Media in Violent Conflict and Right-Wing Populist Politics and Discourse. These projects have generated a substantial body of scholarly publications on media discourse, political communication, and contemporary European politics.

Her monograph, European Identity and the Representation of Islam in the Mainstream Press: Argumentation and Media Discourse (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019), advances the study of the discursive construction of European identity during periods of financial and socio-political crisis. Combining argumentation theory, Gramscian perspectives, and the Discourse-Historical Approach, the book offers a critical discourse analysis of European media representations of Islam and their implications for identity formation.

In 2020, she co-edited, together with Professor Anastasia Stamou (AUTh), the first Greek-language volume on Critical Discourse Analysis, published by Nissos Academic Publishing, thereby contributing to the institutional development of the field in Greece.

Her research lies at the intersection of Critical Discourse Studies, political communication, political theory, European studies and social anthropology. Her principal research interests include political and media discourse, the discursive construction of political dichotomies, post-politics, the relationship between social media discourse and identity, online ethnography, nationalism and supranational identities, language ideologies, and the ethnography of Jewish communities.

She has extensive teaching experience in discourse studies, qualitative research methods, media studies, linguistic anthropology, and sociolinguistics at undergraduate and postgraduate levels.