Polina Shvanyukova (polina.shvanyukova@gmail.com), PhD, is Associate Professor of English Language and Translation at the University of Udine. She has previously held postdoctoral positions in English Linguistics at the Universities of Florence and Bergamo where she worked and published in the area of historical English linguistics, as well as the history of English language teaching in Italy. She is the author of The Language of Historical Business Discourse in English: A Nineteenth-Century Perspective (2020). Her current research includes a project on women in American politics, with a specific focus on reproductive rights. She recently co-edited a special issue of RILA on “Teaching and Learning English in Italy: Past, Present and Future Perspectives” (forthcoming). She is Associate Editor-in-Chief and Corresponding Editor of Token: A Journal of English Linguistics.
