KATARZYNA MOLEK-KOZAKOWSKA is Associate Professor of linguistics and communication and Head of the Department of English at the University of Opole, Poland, senior research fellow at Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Lithuania, and the leader of the CORECON project at Lucian Blaga University, Sibiu, Romania. With a background in English language and literature, she has specialized in political discourse analysis, policy and science communication, multimodality studies, as well as popular media and journalism studies. Since 2014 she has co-edited Res Rhetorica, an international open-access quarterly journal focused on rhetoric and linguistics, published by the Polish Rhetoric Society. Apart from an extensive publishing record embedded in both (critical) discourse studies and media and communication studies, she has successfully managed international research collaborations that resulted in several co-edited volumes with Polish and international publishers and thematic issues of Res Rhetorica. She serves on the board of several journals and book series, including Springer Nature's series "The Language of Politics".
SIMINA-MARIA TERIAN is Associate Professor with the Department of Romance Studies at the Faculty of Letters and Arts, Lucian Blaga University, Sibiu, Romania where she specializes in Romanian Syntax, Pragmatics, Digital Tools in Romanian Language Learning, and Romanian as a Foreign Language. She has published three books on discourse analysis, grammar theory and analysis, and a cognitive analysis of Romanian idiomatic expressions. She has been a member of several national research and institutional development projects, including The Fake News Phenomenon in Romanian. A Discursive-Computational Approach (FAKEROM), an interdisciplinary humanities and computer science project surveying a large-sized corpus and classifying news reports; and The Preservation, Transformation and Study of Romanian Linguistic Heritage in the Context of Globalization (PATLIRO), a research grant focusing on the use of digital tools in the study of Romanian as a foreign language.