D. (Dimitris) Serafis, Dr

I am an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Groningen. My research has a strong interdisciplinary orientation, drawing on (multimodal) critical discourse studies, social semiotics and argumentation theory, with my particular focus being on topics such as racism and hate speech, populism and authoritarianism in contexts of 'crisis' in Europe. I have published internationally on these topics in academic journals such as Critical Discourse Studies, Journal of Language and Politics, Discourse & Communication, Social Semiotics, Journal of Argumentation in Context, Informal Logic, Topoi. I am the author of the book Authoritarianism on the Front Page: Multimodal discourse and argumentation in times of multiple crises in Greece (2023, John Benjamins) My recent publications also include ‘Soft Hate Speech: Critical Perspectives from Discourse and Argumentation Studies’ (Critical Discourse Studies, 2025; co-edited with S. Assimakopoulos) and ‘Critical Perspectives on Migration in Discourse and Communication’ (Studies in Communication Sciences, 2021; co-edited with J. Drzewiecka & S. Greco). I am the Editor of the international peer-reviewed CADAAD Journal – Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis Across Disciplines as well as sit at the editorial board of academic journals such as Argumentation (Springer) and Journal of Argumentation in Context (John Benjamins).