NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS

Tidita ABDURRAHMANI

Associate Professor

Dean, Faculty of Technology and Business, Beder University College

Full-Time Lecturer, Faculty of Humanities and Law, Beder University College, Rruga Jordan Misja, Tirane

Email address: tabdurrahmani@beder.edu.al

ORCID: 0000-0001-9449-6884

Tidita Abdurrahmani is Dean of Faculty of Technology and Business Beder University, and a lecturer in the Humanities, English Studies, and Education Sciences. Mrs. Abdurrahmani has received a PhD in Graz Austria, and the academic degree of Associate Professor Doctor by the University of Tirana with domains of interest focusing on American literature and culture. She has been a lecturer on a university level for over 20 years, academic leader for over 8 years (among which holding position as Head of the Department of Education Studies, Dean Faculty of Philology and Education and Dean Faculty of Technology and Business). Mrs. Abdurrahmani has also been CEO involved in the leadership of an educational institute for 4 years and principal researcher in several projects in the field of education, humanities, and translation studies. Prof. Abdurrahmani has been acting as a chairperson or member of executive and editorial boards to several conferences in the field of Education and English studies as well as a chief editor to several journals.

Tidita Abdurrahmani has been involved in executing sociocultural and educational research for more than a decade and has been a contributor in researches on such issues as ethnic studies, American literature and cultural studies, postmodernist studies, curriculum design and assessment, educational reforms, curriculum and cultural orientation, psycholinguistics and child development, sociolinguistics and dealing with children of culturally heterogenous background, media literacy, inclusive education, and pre-service and in-service teacher training. In the position of head of an educational institution for over 4 years Prof. Abdurrahmani has been part of the policy designing and decision-making groups set up by the Ministry of Education and Science on such issues as curriculum design, curriculum evaluation and curriculum implementation, teacher pre- service and in-service training, the continuous professional development schemes for teachers and development of methodological and didactic material for teachers. The candidate has led as principal researcher several projects in the field of education and multiculturalism such as projects on child-friendly schools, no child left behind policy, projects for inclusive education for disabled children and marginalised strata, projects on inclusion of elements of multicultural elements in the curricula etc.

Jana BÉREŠOVÁ

Professor

Trnava University, Slovakia

Email address: jana.beresova282@gmail.com, jana.beresova@truni.sk

ORCID: 0000-0003-3336-5324

Jana Bérešová is a Professor at the Department of English Language and Literature at the Faculty of Education, Trnava University in Slovakia. She is intensively engaged in teacher training to improve modern language teaching. Her involvement in the ECML training and consultancy programme facilitates the integration of CEFR concepts into language education in European Union countries. Her second research area is linguistics, as both language competence and teaching mastery are essential for a competent language teacher.

Franck COLOTTE

Académie Nationale de Metz, France

Email address: franck.colotte@education.lu

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0001-9887-1271

Franck Colotte is a teacher-researcher in Luxembourg. He is a full member of the Académie Nationale de Metz (F). His research interests include especially Norman authors (Maupassant, Flaubert) and issues relating to the relationship between text and image.

Anca DOBRINESCU

Full Professor

Petroleum-Gas University of Ploiesti, Romania

Email address: adobrinescu@upg-ploiesti.ro

ORCID: 0009-0001-7781-6070

Anca Dobrinescu is full Professor at the Petroleum-Gas University of Ploiesti. She holds a PhD in British literature from the University of Bucharest. She teaches Modernist and Postmodernist literature to graduate and undergraduate students. She carries out research into issues related to literature and intercultural communication. She published Modernist Narrative Discourse. Virginia Woolf in 2001, The Discourse of Modernism. Lectures in the Modernist English Novel in 2004, British Culture and Civilization in 2005 and The Discourse of Modernism. The Novel and Travelling Across Cultures in 2014. She also wrote more than 70 articles on Modernist and Postmodernist literature, as well as British and American contemporary fiction and intercultural communication.

Marius-Virgil FLOREA

Shanghai International Studies University, Shanghai, China

E-mail address: floreamarius@foxmail.com

ORCID: 0009-0000-4550-5270

Marius-Virgil Florea was born in Romania and at present he is living in Shanghai, China, where he is working as a teacher at Shanghai International Studies University. He has a PhD in literature at Bucharest University with a thesis on Mircea Eliade’s Fantastic Literature, and a second PhD in comparative literature at Nanjing Normal University, with a thesis about Mo Yan and the Western and Eastern Influences (especially magic realism). His research interests involve analysing themes and motifs in fantastic literature, fantasy or magic realism.

Enkeleda JATA

Lecturer

Faculty of Economics and Agribusiness, Agricultural University of Tirana, Albania

Email address: ejata@ubt.edu

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0002-2013-9707

Enkeleda Jata has been an English lecturer at the Faculty of Economics and Agribusiness at the Agricultural University of Tirana since 2017. She earned her Master of Science degree in Translation and Interpreting from the Faculty of Foreign Languages and holds a Ph.D. in Pedagogy and Psychology.
From 2011 to 2017, she worked as a lecturer at the Department of English Language and Literature at Bedër University, where she taught a variety of courses at both the Bachelor’s and Master’s levels.
Between 2015 and 2017, she also worked as a part-time lecturer at the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Tirana.
In addition to her academic career, Dr. Jata has extensive experience as a freelance interpreter and translator, providing services for various conferences. She is also the author of several scientific articles published in local and international journals.
Areas of expertise: English for Specific Purposes, intercultural competence, teaching

Maria-Ionela NEAGU

Associate Professor

Petroleum-Gas University of Ploiești, Romania

Email address: ionela.neagu@upg-ploiesti.ro

ORCID: 0000-0002-2785-9224

Maria-Ionela Neagu is Associate Professor in the Philology Department, Faculty of Letters and Sciences, Petroleum-Gas University of Ploiesti. Her major research and teaching interests are in the fields of English Linguistics, Critical Discourse Analysis, Argumentation Theory, Cognitive Semantics, Applied Linguistics, and ELT Methodology. She has published widely in reputed academic journals and national and international conference proceedings. Her works include three monographs, namely Politici lingvistice educationale in Romania/Language Education Policies in Romania (Petroleum-Gas University of Ploiesti, 2008), Decoding Political Discourse. Conceptual Metaphors and Argumentation (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), From Structure to Discourse (Petroleum-Gas University of Ploiesti, 2020), and four edited volumes, as follows: Persuasive Games in Political and Professional Dialogue (co-editor) (John Benjamins, 2015), Information and Persuasion. Studies in Linguistics, Literature, Culture, and Discourse Analysis (co-editor) (Peter Lang, 2017), Voyage and Emotions across Genres (Peter Lang, 2020), and Multimodal Communication and Soft Skills Development (co-editor) (Peter Lang, 2022).

Loredana NETEDU

Associate Professor

Petroleum-Gas University of Ploiești, Romania

Email: loredana.netedu@upg-ploiesti.ro

ORCID: 0009-0006-5515-5888

Loredana Netedu is Associate Professor at Petroleum-Gas University of Ploiesti, Department of Philology, Faculty of Letters and Sciences. Her fields of interest include Middle Age and Romantic Romanian literature, Cultural studies, Children literature and Romanian language as a foreign language. She holds a PhD in Philology from the University of Bucharest, on the 19^th century Romanian literature.

Adina Oana NICOLAE

Associate Professor

Petroleum-Gas University of Ploiești, Romania

Email address: adina.nicolae@romanianmetaphorresearch.org

ORCID: 0009-0008-8731-1771

Adina Oana Nicolae is Associate Professor in the Department of Philology at the Faculty of Letters and Sciences, Petroleum-Gas University of Ploieşti, Romania. She holds a Ph.D. in Philology from the West University of Timişoara, awarded in 2011. Her scholarly work spans several areas, including cognitive metaphor theory, cognitive linguistics, multimodal communication, sociolinguistics, English for Specific Purposes (ESP), and translation studies.

Dr. Nicolae is the author of several significant publications, including English for Business and Economics: Establishing Foundations (2023), Metaphor in the Written Business and Economics Discourse (2015), and English Phonetics and Phonology: A Primer (2011). She has also contributed numerous articles to peer-reviewed journals and has presented her research at various international conferences, focusing on applied linguistics and related fields.

Irena SHEHU

Lecturer

Bedër University College, Albania

Email address: ishehu@beder.edu.al

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5408-9982

Irena Shehu is engaged as a full time lecturer at Bedër University College, covering mainly subjects related to Linguistics in Bachelor and Master Program. She has received a Bachelor Degree in the University of Shkoder “Luigj Gurakuqi” in “American and British Studies”. Later, she has received a Master of Science diploma in the University of Tirana, in the program “Intercultural and Tourism Language and Communication”. Furthermore, in 2016 she has received PhD degree on Education and Psychology, at European University of Tirana.

To add more to her educational background, it is important to note that she has attended many training programmes and gained a lot of other qualifications in the field of English Language Teaching. The most important one is CELTA program in London, from July – August 2018. Dr. Shehu has a long experience, more than 10 years, in teaching students at the high school and university level. She has gained the title “Qualified Teacher” from ASCAP (Quality Assurance Agency for Teachers in Pre-university Education System).

She is a board member in several scientific conferences and journals. She is the author of a number of articles published in conferences and scientific journals at home and abroad focusing on teaching foreign languages.

Furthermore, she is the head of the English Language and Education Department at University College Bedër.

Her areas of expertise are: teaching, education, linguistics, research methodology and cultural aspects of English Language Studies. She is a good speaker of English, French and Italian.

Ágnes VIRÁG

Assistant Professor

Eszterházy Károly Catholic University of Eger, Hungary

Email address: agnesvirag84@gmail.com

ORCID: 0000-0002-3746-9916  

Ágnes Virág is an art historian and communication expert. As an Assistant Professor, she teaches Art History at the Institute of Fine Arts and Art Theory and at the Institute of Media and Design at the Eszterházy Károly Catholic University of Eger, and Digital and Visual Communication at the Department of Library and Information Science at the University of Debrecen. Her research area focuses on visual political communication in political art (e.g., in political cartoons, on posters, on news websites) by highlighting such concepts as democracy, parliament, body policy, and symbolic activities. She applies qualitative and quantitative corpus research, discourse analytical methods through the prism of conceptual metaphor and metonymy theory. Her research was published in international journals (Intersections: East European Journal of Society and Politics, Central European Journal of Communication) and in special thematic volumes (International Discourses of Authoritarian Populism: Varieties and Approaches, Cognitive Linguistic Studies: Visual Metaphors, Reflections on Emotions, Populism and Polarisation).