HELEN SAUNTSON is Head of Programme - MA TESOL at York St John University, UK. She is the author, with Liz Morrish, of New Perspectives on Language and Sexual Identity (2007), co-editor, with Sakis Kyratzis, of Language, Sexualities and Desires: Cross-Cultural Perspectives (2007) and co-editor, with Kate Harrington, Lia Litosseliti and Jane Sunderland, of Gender and Language Research Methodologies (2008), all published by Palgrave Macmillan.