Heri Kuswoyo is an Assistant Lecturer in Linguistics in the Department of English, Faculty of Arts and Education, Universitas Teknokrat Indonesia. He previously served as a postdoctoral researcher at the Faculty of Cultural Sciences, Universitas Padjadjaran, Indonesia, and as a visiting researcher in the Department of English, College of Arts and Sciences, Northern Illinois University, United States, in 2019. His research interests include discourse analysis, class discourse, and systemic functional linguistics.