John Corbett has been, since September 2020, a full Professor of English at BNU-HKBU United International College, a liberal arts institution in Zhuhai, China. He is now Associate Dean of Teaching and Learning in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. Between 2017 and 2020 he was a CAPES International Fellow and Visiting Professor at the University of Sao Paulo in Brazil, working on a cross-faculty project to develop academic literacies in English. He was previously a full Professor of English at the University of Macau, where he served as Head of the English Department and also, for a time, Acting Director of the English Language Centre. He remains an Honorary Visiting Professor at Glasgow University, where he held a personal Chair in Applied Language Studies, and he also served there as Head of the Department of English Language. He has considerable managerial, interdisciplinary research and teaching experience in a number of institutions worldwide. He has published widely in the areas of language education, corpus linguistics, literary linguistics, Scottish literature and the Scots language.

Steve Mann (Professor of Applied Linguistics) currently works at the Dept of Applied Linguistics at the University of Warwick. He has experience in Hong Kong/China, Japan and Europe in both English language teaching and teacher development. He has published various books including ‘Innovations in Pre-service Teacher Education’ (British Council) and ‘Reflective Practice in English Language Teaching: Research-Based Principles and Practices’ (Routledge). He is interested in qualitative methodology and has published a book with Palgrave on research interviews. He leads a group of PhD students who are researching aspects of teacher education and development. He has completed several research collaborations with The British Council, including a recent teacher development project in Yunnan. He has been a visiting scholar at both Tongji University and Shanghai International Studies University.

Kwinten Van De Walle is a lecturer at the School of English Studies. He is a former junior post-doctoral fellow of the Alexander-von-Humboldt Foundation and was a research fellow at the Shanghai University of Finance and Economics. His research predominantly focuses on eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century literature, illustration, and print culture. His current research focuses on illustrations of Oliver Goldsmith’s literary works (1766-1845).

玛拉奇·阿诺德（Malachy Arnold）格拉斯哥Tarran乐队竖琴演奏者，师从法国Tristan Le Govic, 苏格兰Gillian Fleetwood，爱尔兰Laoise Kelly，2023年获得Battle Of The Folk Band 冠军，2022年获得BBC Radio Scotland Young Traditional Finalist.

安迪·阿诺德（Andy Arnold）英国格拉斯哥特龙剧院艺术总监，格拉斯哥“The Arches”拱形空间创始人，格拉斯哥大学荣誉博士。曾担任爱丁堡戏剧工作坊艺术总监、伦敦布卢姆斯伯里剧院艺术总监，执导了多部参加爱丁堡艺术节的戏剧作品与许多于俄罗斯、美国、意大利、新加坡进行国际巡演的当代经典作品（塞缪尔·贝克特，哈罗德·品特，田纳西·威廉姆斯）和新作品。

Professor Ghil‘ad Zuckermann 诸葛漫（牛津大学博士、剑桥大学博士），澳大利亚弗林德斯大学教授，被《澳大利亚人报》（2024）列入澳大利亚30位"在世研究传奇人物"名单。他因对意第绪语研究的杰出贡献于2023年获得鲁宾利希特奖。现任全州国际非物质文化遗产促进奖评委会主席。其著作包括《复兴学：从以色列语的起源到澳大利亚及更远地区的语言复得》（牛津大学出版社，2020）和《多源造词研究》（华东师范大学出版社，2021）。

雷蕾，博士，上海外国语大学教授、博士生导师。研究兴趣涉及语料库语言学、计量语言学、语言数字人文等领域。在剑桥大学出版社等出版专著5部，在Applied Linguistics、Journal of Second Language Writing、Language Teaching、Journal of English for Academic Purposes、International Journal of Corpus Linguistics、Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory等SSCI期刊发表研究性论文40余篇、书评10余篇，其中两篇论文入选ESI高被引论文；在CSSCI期刊发表论文或书评10余篇。主持完成国家社科基金等项目多项。兼任Journal of English for Academic Purposes (SSCI) 等国内外期刊编委、Corpus-based Studies across Humanities (De Gruyter)副主编。入选爱思唯尔中国高被引学者、全球前2%顶尖科学家。

现任辽宁大学国际经济政治学院教授，博士生导师，副院长。国家级人才项目青年拔尖人才，中国世界经济学会理事、新兴经济体研究会理事，在《Review of International Political Economy》、《Small Business Economics》、《世界经济与政治》、《统计研究》等中英文期刊发表论文六十余篇，多次被《中国社会科学文摘》、《人大复印报刊资料》转载。主持国家社科基金重点项目、国家社科基金重大项目子课题多项，教育部及其他省部级课题十余项；多次荣获商务部商务发展研究成果奖、辽宁省哲学社会科学成果奖。

现任湖南大学金融与统计学院副教授、博士生导师。先后获得湖南大学理学学士(数学与应用数学专业)和金融学博士学位，曾在中国人民大学经济学院从事博士后研究。研究方向为银行监管与风险管理、宏观金融与国际金融。以第一作者在《经济研究》《经济学(季刊)》《世界经济》《管理科学学报》《金融研究》《国际金融研究》以及Journal of Empirical Finance、Journal of Futures Markets等国内外代表性学术刊物上发表论文30多篇，部分研究成果被《新华文摘》、人大报刊复印资料、《文摘报》转载。在《经济日报》、国家自科基金委《政务信息专报》、教育部《决策咨询专刊》等发表资政论文10多篇，部分成果被中央办公厅采用，受邀《金融时报》专访。出版专著教材3部，独著专著入选中国社会科学院创新工程。主持国家自科基金项目、教育部人文社科基金、中国博士后特别资助项目和国家社科基金重大项目子课题、教育部重大攻关项目子课题等多项课题。

文学博士，现为上海外国语大学国际文化交流学院教授、“中国现当代文学”学科硕士生导师兼学科点负责人，上海外国语大学文学研究院“比较文学与跨文化研究”学科博士生导师。同时兼任安徽师范大学中国现当代文学专业硕导和博导。