Staff
Ricardo Napoleão de Souza
I am lecturer of Business Communication and academic writing in the English department withing the Language Center. I also co-teach Multilingual and Multicultural Business Settings (Flespråkiga og multikulturella affärssammanheng) with colleagues the Swedish department.
In addition to teaching, I am a university researcher (universitetsforskare/yliopistontutkija) at the University of Helsinki, where I do research on how language contact impacts the linguistic structure of several languages.
I have a PhD in linguistics and my research concerns phonetics and phonology, mostly in the realm of prosody and suprasegmental variables.
My teaching experience beyond Hanken includes extensive teaching in the US, Brazil and Finland.
At Berlitz I taught English, French and Portuguese classes to business audiences, including CEOs, CFOs and other high-ranking individuals from several companies.
I have taught undergraduate linguistics and language courses in the US and at the University of Helsinki in Finland.