Una Mary Cunningham
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Dalarna University
Sweden

Una Cunningham is an Associate Professor in the English department at Dalarna University, Sweden. Her research interests are in netbased learning and teaching, especially the learning of intelligible pronunciation in English as a second or foreign language. She has published three teaching books on the use of the Internet in schools, and has developed and taught classes in the language of electronic communication. She has been involved in distance education in various capacities since 1997. Her research has mostly been in various aspects of non-native language, particularly the phonetic characteristics and sociolinguistic consequences of foreign accent. These interests are brought together in her current and forthcoming work on oral communication between non-native speakers and between native and non-native speakers in electronically mediated learning environments.

Kristy Beers Fägersten
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Dalarna University
Sweden

Kristy Beers Fägersten is an Assistant Professor in the English Department at Dalarna University, Sweden. She has taught classes in Corpus Linguistics and English-language electronic communication in Germany and Sweden, and has used electronic communication to teach Master’s courses in English linguistics. Both activities have influenced her research on the discourse of electronic communication, resulting in the identification of linguistic features unique to computer-mediate discourse, analyses of computer-mediated discursive constructions of identity, and the discourse of electronic communication in educational contexts.

Elin Holmsten
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Dalarna University
Sweden

Elin Holmsten is an Assistant Professor in the English Department at Dalarna University, Sweden. She has taught web-based courses in literature and literary theory at the Master’s level. Her research has focussed on the hermeneutic interaction between self and other in literature. In particular, her findings show how the temporal and spatial gaps of language open towards otherness and how interacting with otherness allows the self to extend its consciousness beyond its present cognitive horizon.