
Visiting language professor, EU International Relations and Diplomacy Studies Department
Visiting professor, Language Service (Bruges Campus)
Bart Defrancq (BE) is visiting language professor for French at the College of Europe. He is a senior researcher at Ghent University, where he was granted his Ph.D. in linguistics, and a visiting assistant professor at the University of Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium. He teaches general and French linguistics at both universities, and part of his research and teaching focuses on terminology management and European terminology. He has lectured on European terminology at the College of Europe (since 1993), at various ministries in Sofia (1996-1998), Warsaw (1998) and Ljubljana (1998) and at the Council of the EU (2004-2006).
Bart Defrancq is the author of L'interrogative enchâssée: Structure et interprétation(2005) and one of the editors of Contrastive Analysis in Language: Identifying Linguistic Units of Comparison (2004).