Piergiorgio Trevisan - Università degli Studi di Trieste - Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici - English language and Translation.
Associate Professor of English Language and Linguistics. His research interests include stylistics, critical discourse analysis, systemic functional linguistics for experimental stimulus design in neurolinguistics.

Massimiliano Demata (DPhil Oxford) is Associate Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Turin.
He has published books, journal articles and book chapters on political and media discourse, the language of borders and the nation, populism, conspiracy theories and computer-mediated communication. His latest monograph are Discourses of Borders and the Nation in the USA (Routledge 2022) and, with other authors, Voices of Supporters. Populist parties, social media and the 2019 European elections (John Benjamins 2023). He has co-edited the volume Conspiracy Theory Discourses (John Benjamins 2022), has edited or co-edited four special issues of major journals, and is the editor of the Journal of Language and Discrimination. He has been visiting professor and has lectured in Austria, France, Germany, Israel, Luxembourg, the UK and the USA.

Nicoletta Vasta - Università degli Studi di Udine - She is Full Professor of English Language.
Her research interests lie in domain-specific discourse analysis, multimodality and digital media in educational contexts, which she investigates from a systemic-functional and critical linguistics perspective. Formerly Vice-President of AIA (Associazione Italiana di Anglistica), she co-edited a special issue of its journal "Textus" on "Identity Construction and Positioning in Discourse and Society" (with C.R. Caldas-Coulthard, 2009). Her latest volume is "Multiliteracy Advances and Multimodal Challenges in ELT Environments" (with A. Baldry, 2020). She is currently completing a monograph on podcasting as a hybrid genre and its ideological and educational impact on revisiting the past.