Dimitris Serafis is Assistant Professor at the Department of Communication and Information Studies, Faculty of Arts of the University of Groningen. His research interests lie at the intersection of critical discourse studies, multimodality and argumentation studies, with his current focus being on topics such as racism and hate speech, authoritarianism and populism in times of crises in Europe. His research has been published in journals such as Critical Discourse Studies, Discourse & Communication, Journal of Language and Politics, Topoi, Journal of Argumentation in Context, Informal Logic, Social Semiotics. He is the author of the monograph Authoritarianism on the front page: multimodal discourse and argumentation in times of multiple crises in Greece (2023, John Benjamins) as well as the co-editor of the “Critical perspectives on migration in discourse and communication” (2021, Studies in Communication Sciences; with J. Drzewiecka & S. Greco).

Email: d.serafis@rug.nl | X (Twitter): @DimitriSrf | Personal webpage: https://www.rug.nl/staff/d.serafis/?lang=en