MARÍA J. PANDO CANTELI (Coordinator) - Universidad de Deusto (Spain):

She is professor in the Department of Modern Languages and in the Department of Communication, where she teaches undergraduate courses in English and Comparative Literature, and graduate courses in Cultural Studies, European Studies, and Gender. She received her doctorate degree in Languages and Literatures in 2001, and has taught at the University of the Basque Country (UPV) (1998-2001) and at Santa Clara University (USA) (2004).

Her research interests focus on gender and the media, and early modern literary and cultural studies. She is currently engaged in a project on “Transnational women networks in early modern Europe”, intitiated as a Fulbright visiting scholar at Stanford University.

ESTHER FERRER (Administrative) - Universidad de Deusto (Spain):

She got her degree in Humanities: Communication at the University of Deusto in 2004. She spent 6 months at the Faculty of Communication Sciences in Bologna (Italy) as part of the Erasmus exchange program and is actually teaching English and Spanish to undergraduate students at the University of Deusto.

COSTANTINO MARMO - Università di Bologna (Italy):

http://www.unibo.it/docenti/costantino.marmo

SERENA DI BENEDETTO - Università di Bologna (Italy):

http://www.lettere.unibo.it/Lettere/Facolta/Pesonale/tecnicoamm/Di+Benedetto.htm

GISELA REDEKER - Rijksuniversiteit Groningen (Netherlands):

http://www.let.rug.nl/~redeker/

(Ph.D. UC Berkeley). Professor of Communication Studies. Department of Communication and Information Sciences and Center for Language and Cognition Groningen (CLCG). Faculty of Arts, University of Groningen.

RIMKE  GROENEWOLD - Rijksuniversiteit Groningen (Netherlands):

http://www.rug.nl/staff/r.groenewold/index

Rimke Groenewold has recently started her PhD project at the Faculty of Arts in Groningen. Her project deals with fictive interaction in aphasic Dutch.

JEAN-CLAUDE GUYOT - Université catholique de Louvain (Belgium):

Pedagogical coordinator at the School of Communication (COMU) of the Catholic University of Louvain (UCL) and at the School of Journalism of Louvain (EjL).

Vice-President of the Conseil Supérieur de l'Audiovisuel, Media authority in the French Community of Belgium.

GERARD DERÈZE - Université catholique de Louvain (Belgium):

Professor at the School of Communication (COMU) of the Catholic University of Louvain (UCL) and at the School of Journalism of Louvain (EjL). Gérard Dereze is now the president of the School of communication.

BREDA LUTHAR - Univerza V Ljubljani (Slovenia):

She is professor of media and communication studies with background in sociology. In her research she focuses on topics in the field of popular culture and consumer culture, cultural consumption, and audience studies.

DEJAN JONTES - Univerza V Ljubljani (Slovenia):

He holds a PhD in communication studies. In his work he mainly addresses cultural aspects of communication and journalism.

ANDREA TRDINA - Univerza V Ljubljani (Slovenia):

JUKKA SIHVONEN - Turun Yliopisto (University of Turku, Finland):

PhD, Professor of Cinema Studies at the University of Turku since 1994. His most recent research is on war films (a book published in Finnish in 2009), and current projects dealing with the problematic of adaptation and remediation.

JUKKA-PEKKA PURO - Turun Yliopisto (University of Turku, Finland):

He completed his doctoral dissertation in 1996 on speech communication. He has worked as a research assistant, researcher, senior lecturer, and professor at Finnish universities. At the moment he is working as a professor of media studies at the university of Turku.