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Raymond F Person, Jr Editor

Raymond F. Person, Jr. is Professor of Religion at Ohio Northern University, USA. Although his primary area of expertise is the study of the Hebrew Bible, he has published three monographs and various journal articles applying insights from CA not only to the Bible, but also to Homer, Shakespeare, and other literature, the most recent being From Conversation to Oral Tradition: A Simplest Systematics for Oral Traditions (Routledge, 2016).

John P. Rae is Reader in Psychology, University of Roehampton, UK. He studies talk and body movement in social interaction. He is interested in interaction involving neurotypical participants and also in interactions involving persons with a challenged capacity (e.g., people with aphasia or with an autistic spectrum disorder).

Robin Wooffitt is Professor of Sociology at the University of York, UK. He is interested in language, interaction, everyday poetics, and ostensibly anomalous experiences. He is the author or co-author of eight books, including Conversation Analysis (with Ian Hutchby; Polity, 2008), Looking in and Speaking Out: Introspection, Communication, Consciousness (with Nicola Holt; Imprint Academic, 2011), and Telling Tales of the Unexpected: The Organisation of Factual Discourse (Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1992).