Christina Samson (christina.samson@unifi.it) is Associate Professor of English Language, Translation and Linguistics at the University of Florence. Her research interests focus on historical pragmatics, sociolinguistics and corpus linguistics integrated with discourse analysis of specialised corpora in Late Modern English. She has founded the Corpora and Contemporary/Historical English Research group (CCHER) devoted to past and present communicative practices, dissemination of information/knowledge and language evolution within social, cultural/geographic dimensions. As co-founder of “Lexicon of Heritage” research unit (UNIFI) she has coordinated its Heritage dictionary portal. She is presently coordinator of the PRIN Florence Research Unit. Her publications include the diachronic and synchronic quantitative and qualitative analysis of propaganda, otherness, identity, discursive representations of colonial India and its mutinies, heritage websites and knowledge dissemination.
