Fred Dervin is Professor of Multicultural Education at the University of Helsinki, Finland. He also holds other professorships in Australia, Canada, China, Luxembourg, Malaysia and Sweden and has widely published on identity, interculturality and mobility/migration in different languages. He is the author, amongst others, of Interculturality in Education: A Theoretical and Methodological Toolbox (Palgrave,2016).
Regis Machart is Senior Lecturer (Modern Languages) at Universiti Putra Malaysia and Adjunct Professor (Intercultural Education) at the University of Helsinki, Finland. His interests include intercultural communication and intercultural/multicultural education, representations of the Other in the media and fiction, construction of identity, discourse studies as well as academic mobility. He co-edited, amongst others, Cultural essentialism in intercultural relations (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015).