Diana E. Popa, Ph.D.

Diana E. Popa holds a Ph.D. in linguistics (2005). She joined UVM in 2014, where she has taught undergraduate and graduate courses across three different departments. She is widely published and serves as editor and reviewer for several scholarly journals. She is the founder of the European Journal of Humor Research and the current topical editor for Culture in Code: Intercultural Competence in the Age of AI and Globalization, among other editorial roles. Her research interests focus on pragma-semiotics, multimodality, and language acquisition, exploring how multimodal resources influence meaning-making and communication across diverse cultural and educational contexts.