Ioannis Karras is a Professor in the Department of Foreign Languages, Translation and Interpreting, Faculty of Humanities, at Ionian University, Greece. He holds a B.A. in English and a B.A. in Linguistics from the University of Calgary, Canada; an M.Ed. in Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) from the Hellenic Open University, Greece; an M.Sc. in Intercultural Communication from the University of Warwick, UK; and a Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. Professor Karras has lectured as a visiting professor and invited speaker at universities around the world. He has extensive teaching experience in Applied Linguistics, English as a Foreign Language (EFL) Teaching Methodology, and Intercultural Communication at undergraduate, postgraduate, and doctoral levels. He has delivered numerous presentations at international conferences and has conducted seminars and workshops for national and international audiences. He has also (co-)authored several books, book chapters, and articles published in international journals and conference proceedings in his areas of expertise.