Nicholas Brownlees
Professor
Department of Languages, Literature and Intercultural Studie
University of Firenze
Italy
Biography
Professor Nicholas Brownlees : Professor of English Language (SSD L-Lin-12) From November 2016: Director of the Department of Languages, Literature and Intercultural Studies (LILSI) From November 2016: Member of the Academic Senate of the University of Florence - Appointed as a representative of the Department of Humanities and Training Directors for the four year period 2016/2020. From November 2016: Member of the Didactic Commission of the University of Florence. From 2014 to 2016: Coordinator of the Linguistic and Oriental Studies Section at LILSI From 2013 to 2015: Delegate Erasmus for the School of Humanities and Training From 2014 to 2015: President of the Degree Course in Humanities for Communication
Research Interest
Language and Translation - English Language
Publications
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Brownlees, Nicholas (2016). Reporting the United States of America in the Liverpool Mercury (1812). In: Marina Dossena, Stefano Rosso (edited by editors). Knowledge Dissemination in the Nineteenth Century, p. 137-156, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, ISBN: 1-4438-8984-9.
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Brownlees, Nicholas (2017). Contemporary observations on the attention value and selling power of English print advertisements (1700-1760). In: Minna Palander-Collin, Maura Ratia, Irma Taavitsainen (edited by). Diachronic Developments in English News Discourse, pp. 61-79, Amsterdam: John Benjamin Publishing, ISBN: 9789027200853.
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Brownlees, Nicholas (2017). The Concept of Periodicity in English pamphlet News. In: JOHN CIAPPELLI, VALENTINA NIDER. LA INVENCIÓN DE LAS NOTICIAS LAS RELATIVE DE SUCESOS ENTRE LA LITERATURA Y LA INFORMACIÓN (SIGLOS XVI-XVIII), pp. 77-88, Trento: University of Trento, ISBN: 978-88-8443-737-2.
