Mary Catherine LAVISSIERE

I. EDUCATION

24 March 2026. Habilitation à diriger des recherches (HDR), Linguistics, Université Bordeaux Montaigne. Inédit: Interactions in maritime professional press: the dynamics of specialized genres; Synthèse: Les textes de spécialité et leurs dynamiques (Specialized texts and their dynamics).

2017. PhD, Linguistics, Université Paris-Sorbonne, Thesis defense: 28 January 2017.

II. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Since Sept. 2019. Associate Professor, HDR. Nantes Université, Department of Foreign Languages and Cultures, Applied Foreign Languages, Centre de Recherche sur les Identités, les Nations et l’Interculturalité (CRINI), Nantes, France. 1,370 hours of class taught (48% undergraduate; 52% graduate).

2016- Aug. 2019. Assistant Professor. Head of Language Department for Paris and Oxford Campuses. Ecole de Management de Normandie, Le Havre, France. 780 hours of class taught (48% undergraduate; 52% graduate).

III. RESEARCH GROUP COORDINATION (3)

Since 2024. Co-coordinator, Special Interest Group Legal English (SIG) GERAS (GT Droit)

Since 2021. Co-coordinator of Theme 2-CRINI (Language for Specific Purposes).

2020-2024. Co-coordinator of French Legal Linguistics seminar.

IV. PROJECT COORDINATION (2)

01/2023-01/2027. Principal Investigator-Lexhnology: joint linguistic and NLP discourse structure modeling of legal texts for language pedagogy ANR-22-CE38-0004, PCR, (Consortium – CRINI/LS2N/LAIRDIL/ATILF), 42 months, 511,958 € and 50,000 € from Pays de la Loire Region of France).

2020-2021. Principal Investigator-LingLexNumériCorps-Amorçage (CRINI/LS2N/LAIRDIL/ATILF) I built and led an interdisciplinary team in linguistics, language acquisition, and information technology.

V. SUPERVISION (73)

PhD Candidates (1). Bonnard, W. (2023-), 50%. Intégration de l'analyse de discours dans un parcours d'apprentissage en anglais de spécialité. https://theses.fr/s370073 . Postdoctoral Contracts (1). Johnson, A. (2024-2025). 100% 12 months. Experiments linked to Lexhnology. Internships (6) 6m research interns for Lexhnology. Masters’ theses (65) since 2016.

VI. PUBLICATIONS (66)

Sc. Pub.: Peer-reviewed papers (27), Sc. ed books (2) (contract with Routledge for Inédit), High-level sel. sc. events (37). Selection of 5 sc. pub.: 1/ Belfathi, A., Hernandez, N., Laura, M., Bonnard, W., Lavissière, M.C., Jacquin, C., & Dufour, R. (2026). Coupling Local Context and Global Semantic Prototypes via a Hierarchical Architecture for Rhetorical Roles Labeling. In V. Demberg, K. Inui, & L. Marquez (Éds.), Proceedings of the 19^th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1 : Long Papers) (p. 2986‑3004). Association for Computational Linguistics. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2026.eacl-long.137 2/ Bonnard, W., Lavissière, M.C., Belfathi, A., Hernandez, N., Jacquin, C., & Monceaux-Cachard, L. (2025). “Steps” towards a corpus of SCOTUS opinions annotated using a Swalesian approach. Ibérica, 50, 45‑80. 3/ Boulton, A., Kalyaniwala, C., & Lavissière, M.C. (2025). Teaching Reading for Case Law in English for Legal Purposes. ASp, (87). https://doi.org/10.4000/13pod 4/ Lavissière, M.C., Boulton, A., & Bonnard, W. (2024). Integrating a Swalesean move analysis in reading legal texts. Etudes En Didactique Des Langues, 42, 31‑53 5/ Lavissière, M.C., Cartron, A. & Gautier, L. (2025). Legal Language and the Sea. De Gruyter Mouton. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111332543

VIII. MAIN SERVICES TO INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH COMMUNITY (5)

1/ Editorial board member (2) (ELAD-SILDA, International Journal of Language & Law), 2/ Peer reviewer (2) (Language Learning & Technology, Asp), 3/ Scientific organizing committee (4) (2026, Discourse: linguistic and computational approaches, Bordeaux, France; 2024, New perspectives on English for Specific Purposes (ESP) and interfaces, The European Society for the Study of English (ESSE) 2024 Conference, Lausanne, Switzerland; 2023, Legal Language & Discourse and the Sea. Focus conference at the International Language and Law Association, Nantes; 2022, Languages for specific purposes, specialized translation and LSP didactics workshop at the conference Crises, Défis, Innovations conference, Nantes; 4/ Scientific committee (1) (IAFLL 2026), 5/ Special issue editor (2) (ELAD-SILDA (2025); Cahiers de l’APLIUT (2023).

IX. SCIENTIFIC MEDIATION ACTIVITY (5)

1/ 2026, Art-Science Project, Play « Les arrêts en liberté. Nuit blanche des chercheurs, Nantes ; 2/ 2025, Workshop at Nantes Digital Week. « Apprendre face à l'IA, à quoi bon ? » with the Chaire UNESCO Ressources Éducatives Libres et Intelligence Artificielle (RELIA), Nantes ; 3/ 2025, SAPIENS et la MER : 300 000 ans de dépendance ? Passé sauvage Youtube broadcast and Nantes Université https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLnL8k02w2FdenGGgnelCAk--juxqNv1u9 ; 4/ 2024, Workshop « Détecter la structure du discours - humains versus AI », Fête de la Science, Nantes ; 5/ 2024, Art-Science Project, Play « Juge et chef d’orchestre ? », Nuit Blanche des chercheurs, Nantes.