- Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics, Al. I. Cuza University, Iasi, Romania
- M.A. in Translation and Interpreting, Dunarea de Jos University of Galati, Romania
- TESOL Certificate, Trinity College, London, U.K.
- TESOL Certificate: Developing an Online Teaching Program, TESOL International Association
Areas of expertise
Multimodal Communication & Analysis; Biosemiotics; Cultural Heritage & Ecological Storytelling; Applied Linguistics, TESOL & Second Language Acquisition; Communication Across Media, Environments & Species
BIO
Diana E. Popa is a linguist and semiotician whose research examines how humans, environments, and cultural traditions co-construct meaning across multimodal forms of communication. Her work integrates pragma-semiotics, multimodal communication, and cultural heritage studies, with a focus on linguistic, visual, embodied, and environmental sign systems. She teaches in the School of World Languages and Cultures at the University of Vermont, where her scholarship draws on biosemiotics and ecological storytelling to investigate communication across species, landscapes, and heritage practices. She is an affiliate of the Gund Institute for Environment and contributes to interdisciplinary projects on narrative landscapes, seasonal knowledge, and more-than-human cultural heritage.
Courses
- LING 4400 - Techniques & Procedures in ESL
- LING 3990 - Semiotics
- LING 2620 – Pragmatics
- LING 2400 - TESOL and Applied Linguistics
- HCOL 2000 – Multimodal Communication
- LING 1400 - Structure of English Language
- SPCH 1400 – Effective Speaking
- LING 1010 FYS: Deconstructing Humor
- HCOL 1000 Cultural Heritage
- SPCH 096: Effective Interviewing
- LING 096 - WLS: Deconstructing Humor
- ESOL 096 - Communication: Current Events
- ENGS 001 - FW: Written Expression
Bio
Diana E. Popa is a linguist and semiotician whose research examines how humans, environments, and cultural traditions co-construct meaning across multimodal forms of communication. Her work integrates pragma-semiotics, multimodal communication, and cultural heritage studies, with a focus on linguistic, visual, embodied, and environmental sign systems. She teaches in the School of World Languages and Cultures at the University of Vermont, where her scholarship draws on biosemiotics and ecological storytelling to investigate communication across species, landscapes, and heritage practices. She is an affiliate of the Gund Institute for Environment and contributes to interdisciplinary projects on narrative landscapes, seasonal knowledge, and more-than-human cultural heritage.
Courses
- LING 4400 - Techniques & Procedures in ESL
- LING 3990 - Semiotics
- LING 2620 – Pragmatics
- LING 2400 - TESOL and Applied Linguistics
- HCOL 2000 – Multimodal Communication
- LING 1400 - Structure of English Language
- SPCH 1400 – Effective Speaking
- LING 1010 FYS: Deconstructing Humor
- HCOL 1000 Cultural Heritage
- SPCH 096: Effective Interviewing
- LING 096 - WLS: Deconstructing Humor
- ESOL 096 - Communication: Current Events
- ENGS 001 - FW: Written Expression