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.

Cornelia Ilie is Professor of Linguistics and Rhetoric at Strömstad Academy, Sweden, member of Academia Europaea, Visiting Professor at Hellenic American University, Athens, Greece, and Professor Emerita at Swami Vivekananda University, Kolkata, India. Previously she was Professor at Örebro University and Malmö University, Sweden. She was research fellow at Lancaster University, UK and research scholar at U.C. Berkeley, and held visiting professorships at universities in Austria, Finland, Greece, Italy, Spain, Romania and the UK. She is the founder and President of ESTIDIA (European Society for Transcultural and Interdisciplinary Dialogue), Board member of IPrA (International Pragmatics Association), member of of ECPR (European Consortium for Political Research), and Member of ESF (European Science Foundation) College of Expert Reviewers.

Her research interests are interdisciplinary and internationally anchored. She has published extensively on institutional pragmatics and discourse practices (with a focus on political and parliamentary, media genres, business communication, and academic interaction), gender in communities of practice, intercultural rhetoric and argumentation.

Prof. Ilie has coordinated or participated in several international research projects, such as ERN-LWE – The European Research Network on Learning to Write Effectively (COST Action IS0703, 2009-2012); GENPARDIS – Gender and Parliamentary Discourse Practices (funded by the Swedish Research Counci, 2010-2013); The Ukraine Conflict as Battlefield of Competing Legitimisation Discourses, (funded by the University of Zürich, Switzerland, 2015-2017); Gender Bias in the Media and Its Critical Analysis, funded by Waseda University, Japan, 2008-2010); Assuming Citizenship Roles: Deliberative Dialogues in Schools (funded by The Baltic Sea Foundation, Sweden, 2004-2006).

In addition to numerous book chapters, refereed journal and encyclopedia articles, her recent publications include the following books: The Use of English in Institutional and Business Settings: An Intercultural Perspective (Peter Lang, 2007); European Parliaments under Scrutiny: Discourse Strategies and Interaction Practices (John Benjamins, 2010); Evolving Genres in Web-mediated Communication (Peter Lang, 2012); International Encyclopedia of Language and Social Interaction (Wiley-Blackwell, 2015); Parliaments and Parliamentarism: A Comparative History of Disputes about a European Concept (Berghahn Books, 2016), Argumentation across Communities of Practice: Multi-Disciplinary Perspectives (John Benjamins 2017); Challenging Leadership Stereotypes through Discourse: Power, Management and Gender (Springer 2017); Pragmatics and Its Interfaces (John Benjamins, 2018); Questioning and Answering Practices across Contexts and Cultures (John Benjamins, 2021); Manufacturing Dissent: Manipulation and Counter-Manipulation in Times of Crisis (John Benjamins, 2024); Discourses of War and Peace: 21st Century Perspectives (John Benjamins, forthcoming 2025).

Her courses are concerned with language and social interaction, intercultural communication, argumentation strategies in political, parliamentary and media discourse, rhetoric and critical thinking in academic writing, business and leadership communication. She is a visiting faculty member and teaches in the Ph.D. in Language and Communication programme.