Alena Kačmárová is Associate Professor at the Institute of British and American Studies at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Presov, Slovakia. She holds a doctorate in English Linguistics and an associate professorship in General Linguistics. Her research interests include discourse studies, intercultural pragmatics and anthropological linguistics. She has authored and co-authored four monographs, eleven textbooks, and over forty papers in international journals, and has edited five volumes of collections of papers.

Bavjola Shatro is Assistant Professor of Contemporary Albanian Literature and World Literature of the Twentieth Century at Aleksandër Moisiu University, Albania. She holds a doctorate on Twentieth Century Poetry and Comparative Literature from the Institute of Linguistics and Literature at the National Centre for Albanological Studies in Tirana, Albania. She has published numerous papers in various peer-reviewed journals, has contributed with articles in four editions of selected essays on literature and has authored and co-authored six books in the field of literary studies.