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FABIO I. M. POPPI

ABOUT

Dr. Fabio I. M. Poppi is Chief Research Fellow at Vilnius Tech (Lithuania) and Research Associate Professor at the University of Łódź (Poland).

Characterized by an interdisciplinary background in critical discourse studies and qualitative social research, he works on the sociocultural dimensions of the identity, social interaction, deviant behavior, and Italian culture, often using a discourse analytical, narrative, and interactional pragmatic approach.

Among the international journals where he has published are Information, Communication & Society, Journal of Pragmatics, Discourse, Context & Media, Migration Studies, Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict, European Journal of Criminology, Critical Criminology, Deviant Behavior and Discourse & Communication.

WORK

(Latest work experiences. For a detailed version of my curriculum vitae, send a request via the contact form)

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VILNIUS TECH
(VILNIUS, LITHUANIA)

2022 -

Faculty of Creative Industries

UNIVERSITY OF ŁÓDŹ
(ŁÓDŹ, POLAND)

2019 -

Department of Pragmatics
Department of Italian Studies

SECHENOV UNIVERSITY
(MOSCOW, RUSSIA)

2019 - 2022

Institute of Linguistics and Intercultural Communication

UNIVERSITY OF GDAŃSK
(GDAŃSK, POLAND)

2018- 2019

Institute of English and American Studies

EDUCATION

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SOCIETY, LANGUAGE & COMMUNICATION STUDIES
(PHD)

2013-2017

UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA - UEA
(UNITED KINGDOM)

SOCIOCULTURAL LINGUISTICS
(MA)

2012-2013

GOLDSMITHS COLLEGE,
UNIVERSITY OF LONDON

(UNITED KINGDOM)

SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
(BSC + MSC)

2005-2010

UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE
(ITALY)

PUBLICATIONS
(Click on the titles to open a link to the publication.)

2025

Poppi F. I. M.
"Limen Transitus: Negotiating Identities of Criminality and Solidarity Among Border-Crossing Facilitators"
Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power

Poppi F. I. M.
“Conformans Novas Selves: The Significance of Balkan Route Migrants’ Possible and Future Narrative Identities.”
Migration Studies.

Poppi F. I. M.
“In Tempore Repetito: The Crafting Style of Crime Narratives and Its Role in Recidivism and One-Time Offending.”
Deviant Behavior.

2024

Poppi F. I. M.
“Resistentia Feminarum in Visionibus: Joint Fantasizing as a Practice of Migrant Women's Narrative Resistance to the Caporalato System.”
The International Review of Victimology.

Poppi F. I. M.
“Ad Nauseam: Nationalism and Racism in Italian Food Stories.”
Food, Culture & Society.

Poppi F. I. M.
“Abyssus Abyssum Invocat: Victim/Criminal Dynamics in the Construction of Successful Criminal Identities.”
Deviant Behavior.

Poppi F. I. M.
“Alter Ego: The Impact of Criminal Identity on Situational Identities in the Narratives of an Organized Crime Member.”
Social Identities.

Poppi F. I. M.
“Modus Narrandi Sceleris: Temporal Shifts in the Style of Crafting Crime Stories.”
Narrative Inquiry.

Poppi F. I. M.
“Per Imaginem ad Veritatem: Joint Fantasizing of Crime.”
Criminal Justice Studies.

Poppi F. I. M., Copes H.
“Identitas per Fabulam: Joint Fantasising in the Construction of Criminal Group Identities.”
Critical Criminology.

2023

Poppi F. I. M.
“In Dubio Pro Reo: The Impact of Certainty and Uncertainty on the Identities and Beliefs of an Organized Crime Member.”
Deviant Behavior.

Poppi F. I. M.
“Non Serviam: Narrative Dimensions of Organized Crime Resistance and Susceptibility.”
International Journal of Law, Crime and Justice.

Travaglino G. A., d’Aniello C., Poppi F. I. M., Pacilli G. A.
“Naming the Threat: Investigating Lay Definitions of Organized Crime in Italy and the US.”
Psychology, Crime & Law.

Poppi F. I. M.
“Mater Familias: Counter-Narratives of Sexism and Heteronormativity in the Italian Food Culture.”
Food, Culture & Society.

Poppi F. I. M.
“Principiis Obsta: Strategies of Narrative Resistance to Italian Organized Crime Governance.”
Deviant Behavior.

Poppi F. I. M., Ardila A.
“In Nomine Diaboli: The Ideologies of Organized Crime.”
European Journal of Criminology.

2022

Poppi F. I. M.
“Melita, Domi Adsum: Sessismo e Eteronormatività nelle Narrative Enogastronomiche.”
Italian Culture.

Poppi F. I. M.
“Fiat Panis: Identity Representation and Identity Change in Food Narratives.”
Consumption Markets & Culture.

Poppi F. I. M., Beccaria F.
“Vinum Regum: Classic Themes in Fine Drinking Stories.”
Leisure Studies.

2021

Poppi F. I. M., Sandberg S.
“Ex Malo Bonum: Ambiguity in Stories of Organized Crime.”
Deviant Behavior.

Dynel M., Poppi F. I. M.
“Fidelis ad Mortem: Multimodal Discourses and Ideologies in Black Lives Matter and Blue Lives Matter (Non)Humorous Memes.” Information, Communication & Society.

Poppi F. I. M., Urios-Aparisi E.
“Erga Omnes: Multimodal Metaphors of Consumerism.”
Lege Artis.

Poppi F. I. M.
“Sancte et Sapienter: Joint Fantasizing as the Interactional Practice of Micro and Macro Contextual Understanding.”
Pragmatics and Society.

2020

Poppi F. I. M., Bolognesi M., Ohja A.
“Imago Dei: Metaphorical Conceptualization of Pictorial Artworks Within a Participant-Based Framework.”
Semiotica.

Poppi F. I. M.
“Pro Domo Sua: Narratives of Sexual Abstinence.”
Sexuality & Culture.

Dynel M., Poppi F. I. M.
“Caveat Emptor: Boycott Through Digital Humor on the Wave of the 2019 Hong Kong Protests.”
Information, Communication & Society.

Poppi F. I. M., Dynel M.
“Ad Libidinem: Forms of Female Sexualisation in RoastMe Humor.”
Sexualities.

Poppi F. I. M., Sandberg S.
“A Bene Placito: Narratives of Sex Work.”
Narrative Inquiry.

2019

Dynel M., Poppi F. I. M.
“Quid Rides?: Targets and Referents of RoastMe Jocular Insults.”
HUMOR: International Journal of Humor Research.

“Omnia Vincit Amor: Narratives of Sexual Promiscuity.”

Sexuality & Culture.

Poppi F. I. M., Verde A.
“Odi et Amo: Discursive Strategies and Ambiguity in the Narratives of Violence.”
European Journal of Criminology.

Dynel M., Poppi F. I. M.
“Arcana Imperii: The Power of Humorous Retorts to Insults on Twitter.”
Journal of Language Aggression & Conflict.

Poppi F. I. M., Kravanja P.
“Aurora Musis Amica: Metaphoric Conceptualization of Depression in Online Visual Representations.”
Visual Communication.

Poppi F. I. M., Kravanja P.
“Actiones Secundum Fidei: Antithesis and Metaphoric Conceptualization in Banksy’s Graffiti Art.”
Metaphor and the Social World.

Poppi F. I. M., Urios-Aparisi E.
“De Corporibus Humanis: Ideology and Metaphor in the Representation of the HUMAN BODY Domain in Cinema.”
Metaphor & Symbol.

Poppi F. I. M., Kravanja P.
“Sic Vita Est: Visual Representation in Painting of the Conceptual Metaphor LIFE IS A JOURNEY.”
Semiotica.

Dynel M., Poppi F. I. M.
“Risum Teneatis Amici?: The Socio-Pragmatics of RoastMe Humor.”
Journal of Pragmatics.

2018

Poppi F. I. M.
“Machina Ex Homine, Homo Ex Machina: Metaphor and Ideology in Shinya Tsukamoto's Tetsuo: The Iron Man.”
Metaphor and the Social World.

Dynel M., Poppi F. I. M.
“In Tragoedia Risus: Analysis and Function of Dark Humour in a Post-Terrorist Attack Discourse.”
Discourse & Communication.

Poppi F. I. M., Di Piazza S., Travaglino G. A.
“Talis Pater, Talis Filius: The Role of Discursive Strategies, Thematic Narratives and Ideology in Cosa Nostra Family Discourse.”
Critical Discourse Studies.

Poppi F. I. M., Gattinara P.
“Aliud Pro Alio: Context and Narratives Within a Neo-Nazi Community of Practice.”
Journal of Language and Politics.

2017

Poppi F. I. M., Di Piazza S.
“In Nomine Patris: Discursive Strategies and Ideology in the Cosa Nostra Family Discourse.”
Discourse, Context & Media.

Poppi F. I. M., Kravanja P.
“Annuntiatio Domini: Metaphoric Conceptualization and Gesture Analysis in Painted Representations of the Annunciation.”
Public Journal of Semiotics.

MEDIA

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NEWS
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Participation in the 5th Narrative Criminology Symposium (15–17 June 2025, Swansea University, Wales) as keynote speaker and workshop leader. I will present on narrative methods and crafting styles, focusing on how individuals construct meaning through narratives of crime, identity, and resistance

Participation in EUROCRIM 2025 – The 25th Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology (3–6 September 2025, Athens, Greece) as speaker and co-chair, with Sveinung Sandberg and Jennifer Fleetwood, of the pre-conference on narrative methods and their applied developments.

Invitation to contribute to the forthcoming Special Issue of the International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology (IJOTCC) on "Truth & Lies" in the context of narrative criminology, guest edited by Anja Emilie Kruse, Lois Presser, and Sveinung Sandberg.

Two new articles have been published. Limen Transitus: Negotiating Identities of Criminality and Solidarity Among Border-Crossing Facilitators appears in Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power (2025), a journal exploring the complexities of identity in global contexts. Conformans Novas Selves: The Significance of Balkan Route Migrants’ Possible and Future Narrative Identities is featured in Migration Studies (2025), a journal dedicated to advancing interdisciplinary research on migration processes, experiences, and policies.

CONTACTS

fabioimpoppi@me.com

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