Salomi Boukala is Assistant Professor of Critical Discourse Analysis at Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, Greece, and Visiting Scholar at Newcastle University, UK. Her research specializes in Greek political discourse, with a broader focus on argumentation theory and Critical Discourse Studies, where she has published extensively. She is the author of European Identity and the Representation of Islam in the Mainstream Press: Argumentation and Media Discourse (Palgrave, 2019) and co-author of the forthcoming book The Language of Politics and the Greek Paradigm (Springer, 2025). In 2020, she co-edited the first volume on Critical Discourse Analysis published in Greece (Nissos Academic Publishing). Her research interests include the discursive construction of political and (supra)national identities, political rhetoric, discriminatory discourse, antisemitism, ethnographic approaches, and media discourses. She is also Principal Investigator of the research project CRITIC (Crisis Narratives: Beyond Pandemic Discourses in Greece), funded by the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation (2025-28). She is a visiting faculty member and teaches in the Doctoral program at Hellenic American University.
