Carla Vergaro is Associate Professor of English Language and Linguistics. Her main research interests lie in pragmatic linguistics, rhetoric, text and discourse analysis, cognitive semantics, and contrastive linguistics. Her articles have been published in international journals such as English Studies, Journal of Pragmatics, English for Specific Purposes, Discourse Studies, Multilingua, Text and Talk, Linguistics and Education.
She pursued her undergraduate and graduate education at the University of Rome La Sapienza and Roma Tre, respectively.She was visiting fellow at the University of Edinburgh, Birmingham, and Michigan – Ann Arbor.
In the academic year 2001-2002 she was granted a Fulbright Fellowship from the University of Berkeley, California, sponsored by John R. Searle, Chair of Philosophy.
In the academic year 2013-2014 she was visiting professor on invitation from Hans-Joerg Schmid – Chair of Modern English Linguistics – at the Ludwig-Maximilians Universität in Munich, under the CAS Excellence Initiative.
She was member of the Panel of the European Doctorate in English Linguistics, University of León, Spain, and the scientific coordinator of a research project on contrastive rhetoric financed by the Italian Ministry of Higher Education.
She was the co-founder (with Sergio Rufini, Professor of English Literature), and vice-director (2006-2010) of the University of Perugia Language Center.