The Editors : Michael Kelly is Professor of French at Southampton University (UK). He has published widely on French culture and society, and on language and intercultural communication. He is a Board member of the European Language Council and joint editor of a new journal, Language and Intercultural Communication. Imelda Elliott is a Senior Lecturer in English Studies at the Université du Littoral, Boulogne (France).
She has published widely on Irish culture and society and more especially on issues of education policy. She also has considerable experience in curriculum development in an intercultural context. Lars Fant is Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at Stockholm University (Sweden). His field of research over the past decade has been intercultural communication studies, especially within a north-south (Scandinavian/Hispanic) dimension, within the framework of discourse and conversation analysis.