Zoya G. Proshina, Doctor of Philology (Habil.), is a Professor at the Moscow State University. Her research interests include World Englishes, sociolinguistics, translation studies and intercultural communication. She was guest-editor of a special issue of the World Englishes journal on Russian Englishes and has contributed to the Routledge Handbook of World Englishes, English as an International Language in Asia: Implications for Language Education, and Communicating with Asia (Cambridge, 2016). She is the sole author of Crossroads: English-Russian Dictionary of East Asian Culture Contacts (2004), The ABC and Controversies of World Englishes (2007), and Theory of Translation: English–Russian, Russian–English (2008). She is co-editor of the forthcoming Handbook of World Englishes. In 2011–12 she was President of the International Association for World Englishes. Anna A. Eddy holds a position of an Assessment Specialist at the English Language Program at the University of Michigan, Flint. She obtained a Ph.D. in Modern Languages from Wayne State University, Michigan with the focus on sociolinguistics of World Englishes. Her research interests include the use of English in non-native contexts, teaching of English as a global language, second language methodologies and curriculum design. She serves as a site reviewer for the Commission on English Language Accreditation and as a Vice President-Elect for Standards at EnglishUSA.