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Tommaso Milani

Professor

Department of Swedish, multilingualism, language technology
Telephone
+46 31-786 44 18
Mail
tommaso.milani@svenska.gu.se
Postal address
40530 Göteborg

Professor

Department of Swedish, multilingualism, language technology
Telephone
+46 31-786 44 18
Mail
tommaso.milani@svenska.gu.se

About Tommaso Milani

I joined the Department of Swedish at the University of Gothenburg in August 2017. My research interests include language politics, language ideologies, language, gender and sexuality (with a focus on masculinities), Critical Discourse Analysis, multimodality, and performativity theory.

I completed my PhD at Stockholm University in 2007 with a thesis entitled "Debating Swedish: Language Politics and Ideology in Contemporary Sweden". The thesis explored the ways in which language politics, language ideology and national identity are entwined in debates over the Swedish language. After Stockholm, I moved to the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom where I was a Post-Doctoral Fellow on a large project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) on the ways in which multilingualism is thematised on a website created by the BBC with the aim of promoting linguistic diversity in the United Kingdom.

After Leeds, I moved to the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. There I conducted research on the ways in which gender, sexuality and race are imbricated in public spaces (online communities for men who are looking for other men, queer feminist protests against mainstream LGBT Pride parades, etc.)

I am co-editor (with Susan Ehrlich, York University) of the journal Language in Society.

Research projects

Citizen and democracy education for newly arrived adult migrants? A policy ethnographic study of Civic Orientation in three urban municipalities in Sweden (VR - dnr 2018-04091)

The role of language in segregation and gentrification processes: linguistic landscapes in Gothenburg, Sweden (VR - dnr 2018-01169)