Lilia Duskaeva is a Professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communications at St. Petersburg State University, Russia, and Honored Professor of the Beijing Second Foreign Language University, China. She is Head of Media Linguistics Commission of the International Slavists Committee, Editor-in-Chief of the journal Media Linguistics (Saint Petersburg State University), and a member of the editorial boards for Verbum (Lithuania, Vilnius University) and Stylistyka (Poland, Opole University). She has written more than 250 scientific papers on linguopragmatics, functional stylistics, and media linguistics.