Susan Ehrlich is Professor of Linguistics in the Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics at York University, Toronto, Canada. She has written extensively on language, sexual violence and the law and is currently working on a project that investigates intertextual practices in the legal system, demonstrating how such an investigation can shed light on broader patterns of social inequalities. Recent books include The Handbook of Language, Gender and Sexuality (co-edited with Miriam Meyerhoff and Janet Holmes) and Discursive Constructions of Consent in the Legal Process (co-edited with Diana Eades and Janet Ainsworth).
Michelle Lazar is Associate Professor and Head of Department of English Language & Literature at the National University of Singapore. With research interests in critical discourse analysis and multimodality, Michelle has published widely in the areas of gender, sexuality, media and politics. She was recipient of the 2018 IGALA Best Article Award for her research on the discourse of homonationalism in a global southern context.
Grace Diabah is a Senior Lecturer and immediate past Chair/Head of the Department of Linguistics, University of Ghana. Her teaching and research focus on language and gender, and language use in specific domains (especially business). Her scholarly works cover a wide range of language and gender issues in African contexts – in domains such as education, media and business. Some of her works include Projecting masculinities or breaking sociolinguistic norms? The role of women's representation in students' profane language use; From ‘Recharger’ to ‘Gidi Power’: The representation of male sexual power in Ghanaian radio commercials; Liberia’s ‘Iron Lady’ vs. George Weah. Grace has recently been selected as a Fulbright Scholar, on the African Research Scholar Programme (ARSP), for her project on the use of gendered (foul) language in social media spaces.
Lal Zimman is an Associate Professor of Linguistics and Affiliated Faculty in Feminist Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His work is broadly focused on the linguistic practices of transgender speakers, and uses a mixture of sociophonetic, discourse analytic, ethnographic, and experimental methods. He has published on a range of linguistic issues affecting trans communities, and his current work focuses on the language of trans people of color with a focus on trans Latinx identities. He is General Editor of OUP’s Series in Language, Gender, and Sexuality.