Jürgen Jaspers is Professor of Dutch Linguistics at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Belgium. He studied Germanic languages and obtained his PhD in 2004 from the University of Antwerp, where he was Postdoctoral Research Fellow for the Flemish Research Foundation and part-time Lecturer before moving to his current post. He graduated as drama teacher at the Toneelacademie Maastricht (NL) in 2009. He publishes widely on classroom interaction, urban multilingualism, and language ideology, and is the editor of special issues and book volumes, including, recently, Critical perspectives on linguistic fixity and fluidity (2019, Routledge, with Lian Malai Madsen).

Prof. Jones’ research interests include language and digital media, health communication, and language and sexuality. He has published thirteen books and over eighty journal articles and book chapters. Among his recent publications are Spoken Discourse (Bloomsbury, 2016), Language and Media: A resource book for students (Routledge, 2020), and Understanding Digital Literacies: A practical introduction 2nd edition (Routledge, 2021). He is also the editor of the Routledge Handbook of Language and Creativity (Routledge, 2016). He is particularly interested in the ways media are changing norms and practices around visuality, sexual intimacy, and surveillance.

Alexandra N. Lenz is acting director of the ‘Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage’ and professor of German Linguistics at the University of Vienna. She has been Speaker of the Special Research Programme ‘German in Austria. Variation – Contact – Perception’ (since 2016), as well as leader of three of its eight project parts. The focal point of her research lies in the areas of socio and variationist linguistics (focus on phonology, syntax and lexis), dialectology, research into language attitudes, language change, and digital humanities. She serves as a Full Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, as well as being a member of scientific advisory boards of several leading linguistic institutions in Europe.

Angela Reyes is Professor in the Department of English at Hunter College, City University of New York (CUNY), and Doctoral Faculty in the Program in Anthropology at the CUNY Graduate Center. She works on theories of semiotics, racialization, and coloniality. Her research examines historical and contemporary formations of language and personhood in the U.S. and the Philippines. Her books include: Oxford Handbook of Language and Race (with H. Samy Alim and Paul V. Kroskrity), Discourse Analysis Beyond the Speech Event (with Stanton Wortham), Beyond Yellow English (with Adrienne Lo), and Language, Identity, and Stereotype Among Southeast Asian American Youth.