On September 24 at 12:30 p.m., in Auditorium 215 at the Faculty of Communication, Dr. Līga Romāne-Kalniņa from the University of Latvia will deliver an open lecture, 'Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis in the Research of Gender Stereotypes and Bias in Social Media Discourse'. Everyone is welcome to participate!
Dr. Līga Romāne-Kalniņa is a Postdoctoral researcher at the English Department of the Faculty of Humanities, University of Latvia working at the intersection of Gender Studies, Critical Discourse Studies, Corpus Linguistics, Cognitive Linguistics and Digital Humanities. Holding a PhD in Applied Linguistics from the University of Latvia (2022), her doctoral research applied corpus-based critical discourse analysis to the rhetoric of the presidents of the Baltic States in the period between 1918 and 2018, earning her the University of Latvia Annual Award (2022) and the Young Scientist Award of Latvian Academy of Sciences (2023).
She has published several scientific articles and presented her research at numerous international conferences and symposia, including at the University of Cambridge (2025), with research mobility at the Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science of Lancaster University (2026) and the University of Granada (2026).
Her current ERDF and Latvian Council of Science-funded interdisciplinary and industrial postdoctoral research project titled 'Gender Bias Through a Digital Lens: A Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis and Corpus-Based Platform Development for Analysing Gender Bias in Latvian Social Media', combines linguistics (MCDA), gender studies, and computer science to develop an AI-assisted MCDA analysis platform for the detection and analysis of gender bias and stereotypes in social media – a study that has also opened an early, developing interest in the study of online hate speech and misogyny, including manipulative, covert forms of hate speech (i.e. soft hate speech).