Chiara Prosperi Porta is Associate Professor of English Language and Translation in the department of Communication, Philosophy and Performing Arts, Roma Tre University. She is also member of Roma Tre – Sapienza PhD joint programme in Linguistics.
From 2002 to 2024 she taught as Adjunct Professor (B.A. and M.A. levels) in the Faculties of Economics, Humanities, Law and Medicine at Sapienza University of Rome, where she also earned a research fellowship for several years (2007-2009; 2009-2011; 2016-2017; 2018-2019; 2020-2021).
She was also Adjunct Professor (B.A. and M.A. levels) in the Faculty of Humanities at Tor Vergata University of Rome in 2018-2020.
She taught ESP for the Ministry of Defence in the II level University Master Course “Management Systems for Quality, Environment and Safety” for the Military at Sapienza University of Rome and the Carabinieri foreign languages centre (CLE).
She served as Member of the Commission in ministerial public procedures for the Italian Foreign Office (2008), the Ministry of Justice (2011-2012) and the National Institute for Social Security (2018).
She is Member of the Italian Association of English (AIA), the European Society for the Study of English (ESSE) and the interuniversity research centre CLAVIER (Corpus and LAnguage Variation InEnglish Research).
She serves on the Advisory Board of CIRLaM - Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Language and Medicine- Department of Precision Medicine of Luigi Vanvitelli University, Naples.
She also serves on the editorial board of the class A journal Studi sull’Oriente Cristiano (ANVUR area 10/ANGL-01).
In her research areas of expertise, she reviews for the American Journal of Linguistics, as well as for class A journals (ANVUR area 10/ANGL-01): IPERSTORIA-American studies and English Language, Linguistics and Translation and TOKEN -Journal of English Linguistics.
Her research interests are mainly in ESP and EAP, with particular reference to specialised discourse and genre analysis, new media genres and communication in academic and institutional settings. She has published widely on these subjects, including a book European Institutional English Rome (2018), and recent articles “Knowledge Dissemination and Ideology in the Discourse of Securitisation and Control in the EU “(2019), “The discursive topicalisation of trust, ethics and ideology in European security issues” (2021), "Building Science on Autobiographical Experience: Self-writing as an Ethical Resource in Medical Reviews" (2024). She has also co-edited the volume Argumentation, Ideology and Discourse in Evolving Specialized Communication (2021).