Rania Karachaliou is an Assistant Professor of Applied Linguistics in the Department of Primary Education at the University of Ioannina. Previously, she taught linguistics courses at the University of Patras, the University of the Aegean, and the University of Crete, and worked as a teaching assistant at the Open University. Her research interests revolve around the narrative construction of identities, fluid racism, critical discourse studies, and critical literacy. She is a member of the Committee on Gender Equality and Anti-Discrimination at the University of Ioannina. She has published the monograph Address in Conversational Narratives (Manolis Triantafyllidis Foundation, 2018) and has co-edited the volume Tracing the Infiltration of Racism into Anti-Racist Discourse: Studies on Fluid Racism (Pedio, 2023) with Argyris Archakis and Villy Tsakona.