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פרופ' סילביה אדלר
The Academic Office of Student Administration, led by Prof. Silvia Adler, oversees every stage of undergraduate studies, from admission to graduation. Its responsibilities include the Admissions Office, the Status Division, the Examinations Division, the Registrar’s Office, and classroom scheduling. In addition, Prof. Adler chairs the Undergraduate Admissions Committee.
Prof. Adler holds B.A. degrees in English Language and Literature and in French Language and Literature, as well as M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in General and French Linguistics from Tel Aviv University. Over the years, she has taught at Tel Aviv University, the University of Haifa, and Sapir Academic College.
In 2011, she joined Bar-Ilan University’s Department of French Culture, where she teaches courses in French linguistics, general linguistics, sociolinguistics, pragmatics, phonetics, rhetoric, discourse and argumentation, and the Franco-Belgian comic tradition.
Prof. Adler is an active member of the Faculty of Humanities and serves on various committees both within and outside the university. At Bar-Ilan, she has served as Head of the Department of French Culture and as Head of the Gender Studies Program in the Interdisciplinary Studies Unit. She is currently a permanent member of the Faculty of Humanities Programs and Appointments Committee, Head of the M.A. track in Mono- and Multi-Modal Discourse Studies in the Department of French Culture, and a member of the University Senate. She has also served on the Senate Appointments Committee and chaired the Subcommittee for Institutes and Centers.
Her fields of expertise include general and French linguistics, multimodal discourse analysis, and argumentation. She has published more than 100 articles in leading journals, serves on the scientific committees of international journals and conferences, and is frequently invited to lecture at universities around the world.