Dr. Nathanael Rudolph (PhD, University of Maryland, College Park) is an Associate Professor of Sociolinguistics and Language Education at Kindai University in Higashiosaka, Japan. His research explores themes including teacher and student negotiations of being, becoming and belonging within and transcending (language) education, and transdisciplinary, community-based approaches to “criticality.” Nathanael is a managing editor for Asian Englishes and associate editor for the Journal of Language, Identity and Education.

Dr. Kirsten Møllegaard is Professor and Chair of English at the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo. She received her Doctor of Philosophy and Master of Arts degrees from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa and has been teaching at UH Hilo since 2005. She specializes in oral tradition and folklore. Her research reflects a broad range of interests in literature and film, specifically the intersectionality of places, people, and stories past and present. She is co-editor of Narratives of Place in Literature and Film (Routledge 2019) and manuscript reviewer for Palgrave Macmillan. She has contributed numerous book chapters on fairy tales, film, literature, comics, and graphic novels. She has coauthored articles on literary analysis with students. Her research articles and book reviews have appeared in the International Journal of Comic Art, Journal of American Culture, International Journal of Literary Humanities, Journal of Popular Culture, Supernatural Studies, Western American Literature, Modern Journal of English Language Teaching and Literature, and Folklore.

Dr. James McLellan is an Associate Professor of English Language and Linguistics at the University of Brunei Darussalam. With a rich teaching background spanning secondary and tertiary education in Brunei, the UK, France, Malaysia, Australia, and Aotearoa (New Zealand), he has accumulated a wealth of experience in English as a Second Language (ESL), Lecturing, Editing, Curriculum Development, and Academic Writing. Dr. McLellan possesses a strong educational foundation, holding a Bachelor's degree in Medieval and Modern Languages, specializing in French and German, from the prestigious University of Cambridge. His academic journey continued with an MA in Applied Linguistics & ELT from the University of York, culminating in a PhD from Curtin University of Technology, Australia. His doctoral research focused on Malay-English Language Alternation in Brunei online discussion forums, adding to his extensive academic achievements. As an academic, Dr. McLellan's areas of expertise encompass Language Alternation, Multilingual Education, Southeast Asian Englishes, and Borneo indigenous language maintenance strategies, underlining his commitment to the diverse and evolving field of linguistics.

Recipient of the UH Board of Regents' Medal for Excellence in Teaching, Dr. Pia Arboleda holds a Doctor of Arts degree in Language and Literature (major in Literature), a master's degree in Language and Literature (major in Filipino) and a Bachelor of Science in Commerce (major in Marketing) from De La Salle University. For high school and grade school, she went to St. Scholastica's College, Manila. She teaches Fil 435: Translation Theory and Practice, IP 273E: Philippine History and Culture, IP 396: Philippine Folklore, IP 431: Rizal's Life and Writing, IP 368B: Philippine Film, among others. Prior to joining UH, she served as Visiting Professor at Osaka University where she taught Southeast Asian Culture, Philippine Literature, Language and History for four and a half years. She was assistant professor in Filipino at University of the Philippines Baguio, assistant professor in Filipino at University of the Philippines Manila and instructor at De La Salle University. She also taught gender studies at St. Scholastica's College, Manila. Outside the academe, she was Assistant Program Manager of CARE Philippines, Executive Director of Environmental Legal Defense (Endefense), Executive Director of the Remedios AIDS Foundation, and External Affairs Officer at the Philippine Rural Reconstruction Movement (PRRM). Dr. Arboleda is also a poet and creative writer. Her works have appeared in Forbidden Fruit: Women Write the Erotic, Kung Ibig Mo: Love Poetry by Women, Essays on Women, The Baguio We Know, Essays in Philippine Language and Literature, among others. She now produces multi-media instructional materials on Philippine folklore and films. From 2011-2021, she served as coordinator of the Filipino and Philippine Culture program. She is now Director of the Center for Philippine Studies and Chair of the Department of Indo-Pacific Languages and Literatures.