Eftihia Saxoni earned her PhD in English Literature from the University of Edinburgh (2025), specializing in literary theory and, specifically, narratology. During her doctoral studies, she taught undergraduate courses in literary and interdisciplinary subjects. In 2024, she became a reader for the James Tait Black Memorial Biography Prize and served as a representative and co-host for the biography category during the Prize ceremony. In her research, Eftihia explores the significance of contextual narratology in the study of the interplay between form and content in gender-conscious novels. She proposes an expanded form of formalism that moves beyond traditional structuralist foundations, highlighting the need for more critically engaged narratological frameworks. She is an adjunct faculty member of Hellenic American University/College at the English language and Literature program.
Zhu Hua is Professor of Language Learning and Intercultural Communication and Director of International Centre for Intercultural Studies at the Institute of Education, University College London (UCL). She is a Fellow of Academy of Social Sciences, UK, and Chair of the British Association for Applied Linguistics (BAAL). Her research draws on her experience of intercultural living and working in China and the UK, and centers on multilingual and intercultural communication and language development.
Zohar Kampf is Associate Professor of Language and Communication and Vice-Dean for Teaching Affairs in the Faculty of Social Sciences, at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is the author of two books and of more than 70 chapters and articles in leading discourse, communication and international studies journals. His scholarly work aims to understand one of the most fundamental puzzles of human communication—the relationship between words and deeds. It concerns questions such as how speech acts construct our social realities under conditions of publicity and how mediated interactions can transform political processes. Since 2017 he has served as associate editor for Journal of Pragmatics. He is a visiting faculty member and teaches in the Doctoral program at Hellenic American University.
Dániel Z. Kádár (D.Litt, FHEA, PhD) is Chair Professor and Director of the Center for Pragmatic Research at Dalian University of Foreign Languages, China. He is also Research Professor and Head of Research Centre at the Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He is the author of 24 books and edited volumes, published with publishing houses of international standing such as Cambridge University Press, and is co-editor of Contrastive Pragmatics: A Cross-Disciplinary Journal. His most recent books are Politeness, Impoliteness and Ritual: Maintaining the Moral Order in Interpersonal Interaction (Cambridge University Press), and Intercultural Politeness – Relating across Culture (Cambridge University Press, with Helen Spencer-Oatey). He is a visiting faculty member and teaches in the Doctoral program at Hellenic American University.
Veronica Kalas is a visiting faculty member at Hellenic American University teaching courses for the Study Abroad Programs. She holds a first degree in Classical Archaeology and History of Art with high Distinction and Honors from Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, a MA in History of Art and Archeology and a Ph.D in Art History and Archaeology, from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. She has been a lecturer at Ann Harbor, University of Michigan, Wayne State University and Albion College. Dr. Kalas has been the recipient of numerous grants and fellowship awards such as the Grant for Intensive Turkish Language study at Bosphorus University, from the American Research Institute in Turkey, and in recent years has published many peer reviewed articles and conference papers.