Masahiro is a visiting scholar at Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics at University of Cambridge and also a visiting fellow at Wolfson College, University of Cambridge. He is a professor at College of Science and Engineering at Aoyama Gakuin University in Japan.

Masahiro’s research so far has been the application of cognitive linguistics in foreign language teaching. The primary way of the application is associated with spatial concept projection, through which learners understand the target concepts in terms of the embodied cognition utilizing spatial concepts. His current research interests are focused on analyzing the spatial concept-oriented metaphor approach from the perspectives of brain neural basis to confirm whether it is a neuroscientifically proven approach to improving learners’ L2 language proficiency.

Masahiro completed his Ed.M.at Harvard University, his Ed.D. at Temple University in the USA, his first Ph.D. at the University of Auckland in New Zealand and his second Ph.D. at the University of Tokyo in Japan.

Prachi Behrani is a Ph.D. Scholar in the department of English, Amity Institute of English Studies and Research, Uttar Pradesh, India. Her primary research interest lies in the role of Humour, especially in the African American traditions. She is currently teaching as a guest faculty in Delhi University’s NCWEB. Prachi is a published poet

Olga Kissova is well-experienced English and Russian language university teacher at University Zilina, Slovakia currently studying as a PHD student in DTI University, Slovakia. Working experience: Business English lecturer, interpreter in international business conferences Cyprus, Dublin. Erasmus+ Klaipeda University (2019 Lithuania), Universidad Granada (2020 Spain), La Laguna Universidad Tenerife, Canary Island (Spain 2020) University of Business and Law Prague (2021 online Czech Republic).

Suanmuanlian Tonsing is a doctoral student, Junior Research Fellow (JRF), at the Centre for the Study of Social Systems (CSSS), Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), India. His research interests include the anthropology of the state, digital anthropology, media and communications, cultural studies, sociology of body, and ethnicity. His forthcoming paper will appear in the reputed journal Discourse and Communications. Some of his other works also feature in RePLITO, and Doing Sociology.

Zahrah Sahib is a PhD candidate at the University of Sydney, Australia. She holds a BA in Psychology, BA in Philosophy, a double Masters in International Communication and International Relations, as well as a Master of Research. As an academic activist, her research pursuits are grounded in social justice and equitable representation.

Daniel Saleh Nourani received his M.A. degree in literature and theory from University of Tabriz and his academic interests include Romanticism, Psychoanalysis, Object (Thing) theory and New Materialism.