Inna Semetsky is Adjunct Professor at the Centre for Global Studies in Education, University of Waikato, New Zealand. Her PhD is in the area of philosophy of education from Columbia University, New York. She received the first Roberta Kevelson Memorial Award from the Semiotic Society of America. Her research strength is semiotics encompassing philosophical thoughts of Charles S. Peirce, John Dewey, and Gilles Deleuze. She thus works across continental and pragmatic traditions. She launched a new interdisciplinary field of inquiry, edusemiotics (educational semiotics).
Diana Masny is Emerita Professor at the University of Ottawa, Canada, Adjunct Professor at Queensland University of Technology Australia and founding member of the Multiple Literacies Research Unit, University of Ottawa. She is the co-editor of Multiple Literacies Theory: A Deleuzian Perspective (Sense Publishers, 2006).