Roberta Piazza is Reader in English Language & Linguistics at the University of Sussex, UK. Her research is in the area of discourse, ethnography, sociolinguistics as well as the media discourse. Lately she has concentrated on aspects of narrative and identity construction with regard to mobile individuals with uncanonical relations to place, e.g. Travellers and Gypsies, squatters, and diasporic groups. Roberta is also interested in stylistic investigations of the language of film and television, and theatre. She has published in international journals, is the editor of several volumes on various aspects of discourse and her recent monograph The Discursive Construction of Identity and Space among Mobile People is published by Bloomsbury.