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Contact:

pierfranca.forchini@unicatt.it

The INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC BOARD

Pierfranca Forchini, PhD

Project Director

The American Movie Corpus

ITALY


PIERFRANCA FORCHINI

(AMC Project Director & Chair of the International Scientifc Board)

Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (Milan, ITALY)


AMANDA C. MURPHY

(AMC Project Advisor & Vice-Chair of the International Scientifc Board)

Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (Milan and Brescia, ITALY)


FRANCESCA L. SERACINI

(AMC-Team Coordinator & Member of the  International  Scientific Board)

Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (Milan, ITALY)

EXTERNAL BOARD of AUTHORITATIVE SCHOLARS


The external scientific board of authoritative scholars includes various prominent academics

from disciplinary areas related to research into movie (audio-visual/screen) language,

corpus linguistics and multi-dimensional analysis.

The role of the board is to advise on scientific and technical aspects

and to fortify the AMC scientific base, validating the foundation on which it is built,

and help the AMC project establish credibility in the field.


UNITED STATES OF AMERICA


DOUGLAS BIBER

Northern Arizona University (Flagstaff, Arizona)


SUSAN CONRAD

Portland State University (Portland, Oregon)


VIVIANA CORTES

Georgia State University (Atlanta, Georgia)


ENIKO CSOMAY

San Diego State University (San Diego, California)


JESSE EGBERT

Northern Arizona University (Flagstaff, Arizona)


BETHANY GRAY

Iowa State University (Ames, Iowa)


JACK A. HARDY

Oxford College of Emory University (Atlanta, Georgia)


TOVE LARRSON

Northern Arizona University (Flagstaff, Arizona)


RANDI REPPEN

Northern Arizona University (Flagstaff, Arizona)


UTE RÖMER

Georgia State University (Atlanta, Georgia)


SHELLEY STAPLES

University of Arizona (Tucson, Arizona)


UNITED KINGDOM


JORGE DIAZ-CINTAS

University College London (London, England)


SUSAN HUNSTON

University of Birmingham (Birmingham, England)


MICHAELA MAHLBERG

University of Birmingham (Birmingham, England)


MIKE SCOTT

Lexical Analysis Software and Aston University (Birmingham, England)


PAUL THOMPSON

University of Birmingham (Birmingham, England)


INTERNAL BOARD of the AMC PROJECT


The role of the internal scientific board is to direct the project, take final decisions, select and coordinate the team, invite and get in contact with the scientific board and advise on scientific and technical aspects.

BRAZIL


TONY BERBER-SARDINHA

Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (São Paulo)


MARCIA VEIRANO PINTO

Federal University of São Paulo (São Paulo)



AUSTRALIA


MONICA BEDNAREK

The University of Sydney (Sydney)




HONG KONG SAR


ERIC FRIGINAL

Hong Kong Polytechnic University (Hong Kong)



ITALY


SILVIA BRUTI

Università di Pisa (Pisa)


MARIA PAVESI

Università degli Studi di Pavia (Pavia)



SPAIN


FREDERIC CHAUME

Universitat Jaume I (Castellón)