Giuseppe Balirano has a PhD in English Linguistics, and is an Associate Professor at the University of Naples L’Orientale. He is the founder of a research consortium, I-LanD, investigating language, identity and diversity, and his main publications include Languaging Diversity (co-edited with M.C. Nisco, 2015); Variation and Varieties in Contexts of English (co-edited with J. Bamford and J. Vincent, 2012); and Indian English on TV (2008).
Maria Cristina Nisco has a PhD in English Linguistics, and is a Research Fellow at the University of Naples L’Orientale. Her main publications include Agency in the British Press: A Corpus-based Discourse Analysis of the 2011 UK Riots (2016); Languaging Diversity (co-edited with G. Balirano, 2015); and The Routes of English: (Un)Mapping the Language (2010).