Paige Baralija is a doctoral researcher and lecturer in language awareness and psycholinguistics in the English department at the University of Graz. She is currently writing her PhD thesis (with Dr. Margit Reitbauer), in which she investigates the changing representation of minorities through linguistic features in entertainment media. She is also involved in a further project with Dr. Manuela Wagner, a researcher and professor from Connecticut, in which they investigate emergent bilinguals.