Professor Dr. Louise Ravelli

Biography

Professor Louise Ravelli is a distinguished academic at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, within the School of the Arts and Media. She has a long-standing interest in understanding how communication works, particularly through language, images, and multimodal texts in the built environment. Her expertise lies in multimodal discourse analysis and systemic-functional linguistics. Professor Ravelli has authored important works, including 'Multimodality Built Environment: Spatial Discourse Analysis' (Routledge, 2016), 'Museum Texts: Communication Frameworks' (Routledge, 2006), and 'Doctoral Writing in Creative and Performing Arts' (Libri UK, 2014). She serves as the joint Chief Editor of the journal Visual Communication and plays an advisory role for the Journal of English for Academic Purposes. In her current research, she supervises multimodal projects that span various domains, including spatial design and web analysis. She has contributed to multiple research initiatives, providing reviews for esteemed journals and acting as an external reviewer for research bodies, including the Australian Research Council and the European Science Foundation.

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