Jennifer Sclafani, Alexander Nikolaou

Jennifer Sclafani is Assistant Professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of Massachusetts Boston. Her teaching and research interests include political discourse analysis, critical applied sociolinguistics, language and gender, intercultural communication, heritage language maintenance, and the discursive construction of identity in contexts of migration. She is the author of Talking Donald Trump: A Sociolinguistic Study of Style, Metadiscourse, and Political Identity (Routledge, 2017).

Alexander Nikolaou, a faculty member at Hellenic American University, holds a PhD in English from the University of Birmingham, UK. He teaches linguistics and academic literacy courses, drawing on extensive experience teaching English for Academic Purposes (EAP), English for Specific Purposes (ESP), and English as a Foreign Language (EFL) in Greece and the UK. Dr. Nikolaou is an Associate Member of the British Association of Lecturers in English for Academic Purposes (BALEAP). His research interests encompass L2 motivation, linguistic landscapes, corpus-assisted discourse analysis, and the discursive construction of identity.