Roberta Piazza is Reader in English Language and Linguistics at the University of Sussex. Her research is in the area of pragmatics and stylistics, and identity in relation to space and with reference to marginal groups. Some of her publications are The Discourse of Italian Cinema and Beyond. 2011; Values and Choices in Television Discourse. A View from Both Sides of the Screen eds 2015 with L. Haarman, and A. Caborn; Marked Identities eds 2014 with A. Fasulo; Telecinematic Discourse: Approaches to the Fictional Language of Cinema and Television. eds. 2011 with M. Bednarek, M. and F. Rossi.