Silvia Kunitz is Senior Lecturer in English at the Department of Language, Literature and Intercultural Studies at Karlstad University (Sweden). She completed her PhD in applied linguistics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA) in 2013. In her research, she relies on conversation analysis to explore how teaching and learning are accomplished as socially situated activities. She has recently co-edited the volume Teaching and Testing L2 Interactional Competence: Bridging Theory and Practice (2019, Routledge) with Rafael Salaberry. She is one of the associate editors of Classroom Discourse. She has also worked as a language teacher in Italy and the US and has been involved in teacher education, both at the pre-service and in-service levels in the US and Sweden.
