Anna Gonerko-Frej, PhD, is the Head of the English Department at Szczecin University, Poland. She has created a programme for teaching cultural studies in a state secondary English-medium school in Szczecin and has been supervising it for the last 10 years. She holds a diploma of postgraduate studies in British Studies from Ruskin College, Oxford University, and Methodology from Warsaw University, Poland, and obtained a doctorate degree from Greifswald University, Germany. Her professional interests focus mainly on English as a lingua franca, linguistic imperialism, language policy, World Englishes, ELT methodology, intercultural education, material writing, British studies, and language and identity.
Małgorzata Sokół, PhD, is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Szczecin University, Poland. Her major fields of professional interest include social media, computer-mediated communication and computer-mediated discourse analysis, professional and institutional discourse analysis, genre theory, and corpus linguistics. She has researched into aspects of digital genre development and evolution in professional (specialist) and organisational communication, and investigated patterns of identity construction and evaluative language use in digital genres. She edited Perspectives on Othering and Stereotyping: Language, Literature, Culture (2010), co-edited Us and Them – Them and Us: Constructions of the Other in Cultural Stereotypes (2011), and authored Discoursal Construction of Academic Identity in Cyberspace: The Example of An E-Seminar (2012).
