Kamila Ciepiela is Associate Professor at the Institute of English Studies, University of Łódź where she lectures on General Linguistics, Sociolinguistics and Discourse Analysis.

Her research interests span issues of the self and identity and how the two are embedded in different discourse practices. She is particularly interested in linguistic performance of the self and an application of ‘small story’ framework in the analysis of situated identity performance. Currently her research interests focus on linguistic approaches to identity, multimodal communication, and health communication. Her writings have appeared in various journals, and her major work “EFL Teacher Identity: From Mental Representation to Situated Performance” was published in 2013 with Łódź University Press. She has presented at national and international conferences and she is the head of the biennial conference series “Personal Identity through a Language Lens” held at the University of Lodz.