Nashwa Elyamany is a professor of computational linguistics with a proven track record of academic achievements, professional development, and intercultural communication. She has been a certified IELTS speaking examiner for over twelve years, served as the Head of Languages Department and Associate Dean for Training and Community Service and is currently Associate Dean for Graduate Studies and Scientific Research at the College of Language & Communication, Arab Academy for Science, Technology & Maritime Transport (AASTMT), Smart Village, Egypt. She is interested in a wide array of interdisciplinary research projects in light of solid academic background and extensive coursework in areas of specialization. Recent publications include a multiplicity of genres incorporating diverse theories of Cognitive Linguistics and Stylistics, Sociolinguistics, Social Semiotics, Forensic Linguistics, Digital Humanities, Computer Vision, and Natural Language Processing. She delivered numerous presentations in several reputable conferences hosted by top-ranking universities in Egypt, Greece, UK, Spain, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and Jordan. She is acknowledged for her unique transdisciplinary scholarship and contributions at the juncture of “Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis” and “American Culture and Media Studies”. Her teaching and research are centered around the critical study of motivational and political speeches; digital narratives; musical numbers and military-themed videogames; translanguaging media; feature and Op-Eds articles; the aesthetics of TV ads, docu-dramas, forensic crime drama series, post-human representation in sci-fi/cli-fi films; conversational AI; and virtual influencers. She published over 45 research works, guest edited two special issues for Multimodal Communication and Language and Semiotic Studies (De Gruyter), wrote two Cambridge Elements, and received over two dozens of scientific publication awards for several papers published in Visual Communication, Visual Studies, International Journal of Legal Discourse, AI & Society, Discourse & Society, Social Semiotics, Multimodal Communication, Language and Semiotic Studies, Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, Cogent Arts & Humanities, The Social Science Journal, Convergence, Sociology, among others.
