Richard Jorge

University of the Basque Country

Richard Jorge received his BA in English Studies at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) and later enhanced his knowledge in the field of literature with an MA in Anglo-Irish Literature and Drama at University College Dublin. His minor thesis on the relationship between Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu and the Gothic tradition was supervised by Prof. Declan Kiberd.

He completed his PhD at the University of Santiago de Compostela, researching the relationship between the short story and the Irish Gothic tradition in the writings of James Clarence Mangan, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, and Bram Stoker. His research has been published in several internationally acclaimed academic journals, including Atlantis, Nineteenth-Century Contexts, English Studies, and more recently, Anglia. He has also published numerous book chapters and recently issued a monograph on the relevance of location in the Irish Gothic short stories of J.C. Mangan, J.S. Le Fanu, and Bram Stoker.

He is a member of the Spanish Society of Anglo-American Studies (AEDEAN), the Spanish Association of Irish Studies (AEDEI), and the Society for the Study of Nineteenth-Century Ireland (SSNCI), whose yearly conferences he attends. His research interests include Anglo-Irish literature, nineteenth-century and contemporary Irish literature, fin-de-siècle Irish literature, postcolonial literatures and theories, and gender studies.

He is currently teaching at the Department of English and German Philology and Translation and Interpretation at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU).

Marek Łukasik

Pomeranian University in Słupsk

Marek Łukasik is Associate Professor at the Department of English Studies, Pomeranian University in Słupsk, Poland, and Visiting Professor at the Department of Foreign Languages, Literatures and Modern Cultures, University of Turin, Italy (since 2017). He received his PhD in applied linguistics from the University of Warsaw in 2010 and a habilitation degree from the same university in 2019. For almost two decades now, he has studied bilingual and multilingual specialised dictionaries published in Poland to date. His current research revolves around the application of generative artificial intelligence in lexicography, terminology, and specialised translation. He is a member of the European Association for Lexicography (EURALEX), the Polish Linguistic Society (PTJ), and the Polish Association of Applied Linguistics (PTLS).