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The Open University, UK
Suman Gupta
Suman is Professor of Literature and Cultural History at The Open University, UK. He has led a series of international collaborative projects since 2002. Recent books include: Usurping Suicide (Zed 2017, with M Katsarska, T Spyros and M Hajimichael), Digital India and the Poor: Policy, Technology and Society (Routledge 2020), What is Artificial Intelligence (World Scientific 2020, with P Tu), Political Catchphrases and Contemporary History (Oxford University Press 2022), The Practical Philosophy of AI Assistants (World Scientific 2023, with P Tu).
Philip Seargeant
Philip is Senior Lecturer in Applied Linguistics at The Open University, UK. His recent publications include The Art of Political Storytelling (Bloomsbury Academic 2020) and The Emoji Revolution (Cambridge University Press 2019), Taking Offence on Social Media (Palgrave Macmillan 2017, with C Tagg and A A Brown). He has won awards for his short films on language and communication, including the viral series The History of English in Ten Minutes. He is a frequent contributor to publications such as Wired, The New European, Prospect, The Huffington Post, The Washington Post and The Independent.
The University of Nicosia, Cyprus
Tao Papaioannou
Tao is Professor of Communications at the University of Nicosia. Current research interests include digital media and political and civic participation, media literacy and education, social media and youth practice, digital media and learning and research methodology for studying networked communication. She is author/coauthor of many journal articles and book chapters on these subjects. Her latest book is Media representations of anti-austerity protests in the EU: Grievances, identities and agency (with Suman Gupta, Routledge, 2018).
Michael Hajimichael
Michael is a Professor and the Head of the Department of Communications at the University of Nicosia. Mike is a performance poet, recording artist, DJ, radio presenter, and freelance writer. He is particularly interested in art and social justice, media literacy, citizen’s media, colonial writing/texts, applied ethnomusicology, media representation and semiotics, and the impact of technology on creative musical processes. He also produces a weekly radio show online on Nice Up Radio (USA) and writes as a music freelancer for UK Vibe Magazine. His books include: Usurping Suicide (Zed 2017, with S Gupta, M Katsarska, T Spyros) and Bob Marley and Media: Representation and Audiences (Rowman and Littlefield 2023)
Arab Open University Jordan
Tahrir Hamdi
Tahrir is Professor of Decolonial Studies at the Arab Open University, and Branch Director of AOU Jordan. Her current research interests revolve around political discourse, specifically how political catchwords are utilized to influence public opinion and political, social, cultural and economic decisions both nationally and internationally. Her research interests also include the complexities of space -- historical/temporal, geographical and imaginative -- within the anti-colonial and resistance spheres. Her latest book is Imagining Palestine: Cultures of Exile and National Identity (I.B. Tauris/Bloomsbury 2022).
The University of Sofia, Bulgaria
Alexandra Bagasheva
Alexandra is Professor of Linguistics and Deputy Dean of Students Affairs and National Projects at Sofia University, Bulgaria. She has published mainly in the fields of word-formation and phraseology, Cognitive Linguistics, and Cultural Linguistics. She is a member of the International Cognitive Linguistics Association. She is a member of the editorial boards of Contrastive Linguistics and Yearbook of Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski” and a member of the advisory boards of Explorations in English Language and Linguistics (ExELL), The SKASE Journal of Theoretical Linguistics and Zeitschrift für Wortbildung / Journal of Word Formation.
Milena Katsarska
Milena is Lecturer at the Department of English Studies and the Philology Faculty Vice Dean of International Relations at Plovdiv University, Bulgaria. Her research interests are in institutional disciplinary historiography, the prefatorial discourse surrounding American literature in Bulgarian translation, and Bulgarian popular culture. Her recent books include: Usurping Suicide (Zed 2017, with S Gupta, M Hajimichael, T Spyros), Parapositions: Prefacing American Literature in Bulgarian Translation 1948-1998 (Plovdiv University Press 2021).
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