Advancing Multimodal and Critical Discourse Studies (PDF)

Sumin Zhao is a Carlsberg Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Southern Denmark and the book review editor for Discourse and Communication. Her most recent publications apply a social semiotic approach to analyzing selfies and mobile applications. Her edited volume (with Djonov) Critical Multimodal Studies of Popular Discourse is now in paperback.

Emilia Djonov is a Lecturer in early childhood at Macquarie University, Australia. Her research in multimodality, social semiotics, critical discourse analysis, and multiliteracies has been published in journals such as Visual Communication, Social Semiotics, and Text & Talk. She has co-edited the volume Critical Multimodal Studies of Popular Discourse (Routledge, 2014, with Zhao).

Anders Björkvall is Professor of Swedish at Örebro University, Sweden. His main research interests include multimodality and ethnographies of artefacts and texts. Recent publications: "Multimodal discourse analysis" in Analyzing Text and Discourse (2017) and "Places and spaces for multimodal writing in 'one-to-one' computing" in Multimodality in Writing (2015).

Morten Boeriis is an Associate Professor at University of Southern Denmark. His most recent publications are on multimodal visual theory and film analysis. His interview book (co-written with Andersen, Maagerø and Tønnessen) Social Semiotics: Key Figures, New Direction is out on Routledge.