Katherine E. Russo, PhD University of New South Wales (Sydney), is ‘ricercatrice’ in English Language and Linguistics at the University of Napoli “L’Orientale”. She has published essays and translations on Post-colonial English Varieties, Contact Linguistics, Critical Discourse Analysis, Translation Studies, Whiteness and Gender Studies. She has recently authored Practices of Proximity: The Appropriation of English in Australian Indigenous Literatures (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010), winner of the ESSE Book Award 2012.