Angelos Bollas is an independent scholar. His research focuses on education as well as men and masculinity from literary, cultural, and social perspectives. He has authored and edited 8 books including Contemporary Irish Masculinities (Routledge, 2024), Sexualised Governmentalities (Springer, 2024), Fashionable Queerness (Emerald, 2024), HIV/AIDS in Memory, Culture and Society (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024), The Routledge Companion to Sally Rooney (Routledge, 2025), Designing Curricula for Student Autonomy and Engagement (Springer, 2026), Voices of Resistance (Emerald, 2026), and Health and Care in Crisis in Sally Rooney’s Literary Universe (Palgrave Macmillan, 2026). Angelos has a PhD in Cultural Studies, five master’s degrees including a MA in Learning Design and Technologies, and two bachelor’s degrees. He is currently studying for his third bachelor’s degree in Philosophy.
Cathryn Bennett is a researcher in corpus literacy development, virtual exchange in task design, and pragmatics. She obtained her PhD in Applied Linguistics from Trinity College Dublin in 2023, focusing on training in-service EFL practitioners to become corpus literate and design classroom materials with corpora. Currently, she is the Scholarly Writing Specialist at Penn State University, United States and continues to publish in several areas: corpus literacy development of in-service teacher education, intercultural virtual exchange and corpus materials design.