Roberta Piazza is Senior Lecturer in English Language and Linguistics at the University of Sussex, UK. Her interests range from media analysis and stylistics to personal and social identity. Her recent publications include The Discourse of Italian Cinema and Beyond and Telecinematic Discourse: Approaches to the Fictional Language of Cinema and Television (co-edited).
Alessandra Fasulo is Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Portsmouth, UK. She has published in the areas of language socialisation, narrative, psychotherapeutic discourse and communication in intellectual disability.