Concentration Area: Language and Meaning

Dircel Aparecida Kailer
PhD in Letters and Linguistics (UNESP, 2008)
Postdoctorate: Sociolinguistics and Dialectology (UFRJ, 2017)
Contact: dikailer@uel.br
ORCID: 0000-0002-4387-2066
Research line: Linguistic description and analysis
Interests: Sociolinguistic studies; Phonetic-phonological studies; Editing; Geolinguistics; Synchronic and diachronic lexical studies; Dialectology.


Edina Regina Pugas Panichi
PhD in Letters (UNESP, 1994)
Postdoctorate: Letters (UFMG, 2013)
Contact: edinaregina@uel.br
ORCID: 0000-0002-3887-7946
Research line: Text/discourse studies
Interests: Genetic Criticism, Stylistics, Semiotics


Esther Gomes de Oliveira
PhD in Linguistics (USP, 2000).
Contact: ego@uel.br
ORCID: 0000-0002-3673-2647
Research line: Text/discourse studies
Interests: Normative Grammar, Textual Linguistics, Cognitive Linguistics, Argumentative Semantics


Fabiane Cristina Altino
PhD in Language Studies (UEL, 2007)
Postdoctorate: Dialectology (UFRJ, 2015-2015); UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 13 NORD [França], 2011-2011)
Contact: fabiane@uel.br
ORCID: 0000-0002-5987-2028
Research line: Linguistic description and analysis
Interests: Geolinguistics; Dialectology; Dialectometry; Languages in contact; Historical Linguistics; Sociolinguistics.


Isabel Cristina Cordeiro
PhD in Language Studies (UEL, 2007)
Contact: isacris@uel.br
ORCID: 0000-0002-2391-9787
Research line: Text/discourse studies
Interests: Argumentative Semantics; Textual Linguistics; Cognitive Linguistics; Grammar and argumentation.


Lolyane Cristina G de Oliveira
PhD in Language Studies (UEL, 2013)
Contact: lolyane@uel.br
ORCID: 0000-0002-9606-6869
Research line: Text/discourse studies
Interests: Ideological argumentation in propaganda; Circulation of discourse genres at school; Referencing in discursive practices.


Marcelo Silveira
PhD in Letters – Philology and Portuguese Language (USP, 2007)
Contact: celosilveira@uel.br
ORCID: 0000-0002-6084-1325
Research line: Linguistic description and analysis
Interests: Indigenous languages; Linguistic variation and teaching; Argumentation and rhetoric; Bilingualism and multiethnicity; Discourse analysis.


Maria Isabel Borges
PhD in Linguistics (Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, 2009)
Contact: mariaborges@uel.br
ORCID: 0000-0002-3470-9566
Research line: Text/discourse studies
Interests: Linguistics; Portuguese Language Teaching; Morphosyntax; Grammar; Comic genres; Text and Discourse; Character analysis in comics.


Otávio Goes de Andrade
PhD in Language Studies (UEL, 2010)
Postdoctorate: Letters (UFSC, 2019)
Contact: goes@uel.br
ORCID: 0000-0002-2774-6254
Research line: Foreign language description and/or analysis; Language and Law.
Interests: Contrastive Linguistics; Lexicon; Interlanguage; Lexicography; Oral-Auditory Languages; Visual-Spatial Languages; Language Policies; Foreign Languages; Second Language Acquisition.


Rosemeri P Baltazar Machado
PhD in Language Studies (UEL, 2007)
Postdoctorate: Language Studies (UESB, 2025)
Contact: rosemeri@uel.br
ORCID: 0000-0002-3000-9941
Research line: Estudos do texto/discurso.
Interesses: Text/discourse studies
Interests: Discourse Analysis; Textual Genres; Sexuality; Signification processes; Effects of meaning; Prejudice; Ideological formations; Heterogeneity; Media; Advertising; Identity.


Vanderci de Andrade Aguilera
PhD in Letters (UNESP, 1990)
Postdoctorate: Letters (Universidad de Alcalá de Henares, 2007)
Contact: vanderci@uel.br
ORCID: 0000-0003-3052-3710
Research line: Linguistic description and analysis
Interests: Geolinguistics; Linguistic Atlas; Synchronic and diachronic lexical studies; Linguistic variation; Dialectology; History of Portuguese; Philology; Toponymy.

Concentration Area: Language and Education

Andréia da C Malheiros Santana
PhD in Education (UNESP, 2011)
Postdoctorate: Education (UFSCar, 2012-2013); Lettres et Civilisations Étrangères (UNIVLYON2 [França], 2023-2024)
Contact: andreiacunha@uel.br
ORCID: 0000-0003-0231-6570
Research line: Teaching/learning and teacher education in Portuguese and other languages.
Interests: Mother Tongue Teaching Materials; Teacher Training; Portuguese Language Teaching; Academic Literacies and Scientific Publicization; Teaching Evaluation.


Cláudia Cristina Ferreira
PhD in Language Studies (UEL, 2007)
Postdoctorate: Translation Studies (UFSC, 2019-2020); Letters (MACKENZIE, 2024).
Contact: claucrisfer@uel.br
ORCID: 0000-0003-4605-3733
Research line: Teaching/learning and teacher education in foreign languages
Interests: Multimodality; Literacies; Cultural aspects in teaching and learning processes, teacher education, and translation practice.


Eliana Maria S Donaio Ruiz
PhD in Linguistics (UNICAMP, 1998)
Postdoctorate:Applied Linguistics (UNICAMP, 2010-2012)
Contact: elianaruiz@uel.br
ORCID: 0000-0002-7169-8464
Research line: Teaching/learning and teacher education in Portuguese and other languages
Interests:Applied Linguistics; Teaching/learning and teacher education in Portuguese and other languages; Text production; TDIC (Information and Communication Technologies) and Portuguese language teaching; Collaborative writing; Multiliteracies at school.


Joyce Elaine de Almeida
PhD in Linguistics and Portuguese Language (UNESP, 2005)
Postdoctorate: Linguistics (UnB, 2013-2014)
Contact: joyal@uel.br
ORCID: 0000-0001-5102-5847
Research line: Teaching/learning and teacher education in Portuguese and other languages
Interests: Linguistic variation in the school context; Educational Sociolinguistics; Linguistic variation in foreign languages.


Juliana R Assunção Tonelli
PhD in Language Studies (UEL, 2012)
Postdoctorate: Language Didactics(UNIGE, 2013 [Genébra]); Letters(UnB, 2018); Letters(UNEMAT, 2019).
Contact: jtonelli@uel.br
ORCID: 0000-0001-5102-5847
Research line: Teaching/learning and teacher education in foreign languages
Interests: Linguistic education in languages with young children; Language teaching for migrant children; Teacher education for language education with young children; Language education and inclusion.


Michele Salles El Kadri
PhD in Language Studies (UEL, 2014)
Postdoctorate: Applied Linguistics (Unicamp, 2018) e Education (UFES, 2020)
Contact: misalles@uel.br
ORCID: 0000-0002-5836-4988
Research line: Teaching/learning and teacher education in foreign languages
Interests: Language teaching; Teacher training; International and national models and practices; Multiliteracies pedagogy; Teacher beliefs and ideologies; Implementation of bilingual schools.


Sheila Oliveira Lima
PhD in Education (USP, 2006)
Postdoctorate: Language and Literature Didactics (Universidad de Buenos Aires, 2023)
Contact: sheilalima@uel.br
ORCID: 0000-0002-0993-8228
Research line: Teaching/learning and teacher education in Portuguese and other languages.
Interests: Reader training; Literacy; Orality; Literature teaching; Portuguese language teaching; Teaching practices; Public reading policies; Literary reading; Portuguese language teacher education.


Telma Nunes Gimenez
PhD in Linguistics and Modern English Language (Lancaster University, 1994)
Postdoctorate: Linguistics (Kettering Foundation, 1997) and (University of London, 2014)
Contact: tgimenez@uel.br
ORCID: 0000-0001-6143-3895
Research line: Teaching/learning and teacher education in foreign languages
Interests: Foreign language teaching/learning; Teacher training; Educational policies; Globalization; Internationalization of Higher Education; Language policies; Bilingual education; Applied linguistics; Educational technologies.


Vera Lúcia Lopes Cristovão
PhD in Applied Linguistics and Language Studies (PUC, 2002)
Postdoctorate: Education and Psychology (University of Aveiro, 2022), Linguistic Studies (UFMG, 2012), Textual Genres (University of California – Santa Barbara, 2012), Applied Linguistics (PUC-SP, 2008)
Contact: cristova@uel.br
ORCID: 0000-0001-7875-6930
Research line: Teaching/learning and teacher education in foreign languages
Interests: Textual genres; Academic-scientific literacies; Teaching/learning/evaluation of foreign languages; Teacher training; Didactization of genres; Foreign language education; Applied linguistics.
