Discurso & Sociedad

Gema Rubio is a writer's assistand and coordinator of the committee at Discurso & Sociedad. She is a doctor in linguistic communication and multilingual mediation at the University of Pompeu Fabra. Her doctoral thesis deals with the discourse of the People’s Party about immigration subjects. After graduating from English Philology at the Complutense University of Madrid, she did a master’s degree in Language Studies at the University of Lancaster, England.

Research

Her fields of research have to do with Critical Discourse Analysis. Rubio is especially interested in political discourse due to the possibilities that it has to spread around and determine public opinion. Moreover, she is particularly interested in immigration, discrimination and racism and the representations of these through discourse.

E-mail: gema.rubio@gmail.com