Dr Mihaela Iorga
Associate Professor Faculty Education for Academic Literacy
Contact:
Email: [email protected]
School: School of Liberal Arts
About
Dr Mihaela Iorga is a PhD graduate from the University of Portsmouth. Her academic interests include TESOL, media discourse analysis, corpus linguistics, foreign languages, and politics, particularly surrounding the Brexit phenomenon in Europe. She has experience teaching undergraduate and postgraduate students at the University of Portsmouth, Richmond American University London, University of Northampton London, but also abroad, at the University of Nebraska Omaha, United States.
Qualifications
- PhD Area Studies, University of Portsmouth (2023)
- MA Applied Linguistics and TESOL, University of Portsmouth (2018)
- BA Area Studies, University of Portsmouth (2016)
Teaching & Learning
- LANG 3100 Fundamentals of English for Academic Writing and Oracy
- LIBA 4301 Academic Research and Writing
Research Interests
- Academic skills/ Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL)/ English for Academic Purposes (EAP)
- Language acquisition and linguistics/ intercultural communication/ area studies
- Analysing political and media discourse, using frameworks such as Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA)/sociolinguistics
- International relations/politics, with focus on migration, race, gender, ethnicity issues, as well as the European Union, Brexit and British politics and media
- Identifying and analysing conceptual metaphors, based on the Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT) framework
Research outputs
- Iorga, M. (2025). Narratives of Immigration in the EU. Migrants in the Romanian and British Press. Palgrave Macmillan.
- Iorga, M. (2025). The representation of migrants in the Romanian press. In C. Taylor, S. Goodman & S. Dunmore (Eds.),The Discursive Construction of Migrant Identities. Bloomsbury.
- Iorga, M. (2023, January 12). “MIGRANTS ARE ENEMIES” andother metaphors describing immigrants in the Romanianand the British press 2006 – 2018. SCDTP.
https://southcoastdtp.ac.uk/migrants_describe_romanian_british_press_2006_2018/ - Iorga, M. (2022). [Review of the book European Identities inDiscourse: A Transnational Citizens’ Perspective, by F.Zappettini]. Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis Across Disciplines, 14(1), 1-4.
