Stefanie Hehner Editor

Marcus Callies is full professor and Chair of English Linguistics at the University of Bremen. His main research interests are corpus linguistics with a focus on lexico-grammatical variation and innovation in advanced learner varieties of English and World Englishes, Learner Corpus Research, teacher education, conceptual metaphor, and the language of sports.

Stefanie Hehner received her first teaching degree (equivalent to M.Ed.) in 2016 from the University of Gießen, Germany. She is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Bremen, Germany, working in the teaching and research project "Varieties of English in Foreign Language teacher education". Her research interests include Global Englishes, teacher cognitions, and the interface between linguistics and English language pedagogy.

Philipp Meer is a PhD student and research assistant at the Chair of Variation Linguistics at the University of Münster, Germany, where he has worked since 2016. He is co-affiliated with the Speech Prosody Studies Group at the University of Campinas, Brazil. His research interests include World Englishes, sociophonetics & sociolinguistics, acoustic phonetics, speech prosody, language attitudes, and applied linguistics.

Michael Westphal is a postdoctoral researcher at the Chair of Variation Linguistics at the University of Münster, Germany, where he also received his PhD in English linguistics in 2016 for his work on language variation on Jamaican Radio (published with John Benjamins in 2017). His research interests include World Englishes, language attitudes, variational pragmatics, and language in the media.