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Sabina Vakser Editor

Olga Solovova (PhD in Sociolinguistics) is a researcher at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies (CEIS20), University of Coimbra, Portugal. She was a Marie Skłodowska Curie postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Multilingualism in Society across the Lifespan, University of Oslo, Norway with a project on the use of Russian in the trilateral Norway-Russia-Finland borderland. Her research interests include language policies, semiotic landscapes, and speaker-centered approaches to multilingualism.

Sabina Vakser holds a PhD in Applied Linguistics from the University of Melbourne. Her doctoral work focused on multilingualism, transnational identity, experiences of migration, and Russianness in family life. Her research interests include the sociolinguistics of mobility, semiotics, somatics, and a sociology of the senses.