Mika Hietanen is a Senior Lecturer in Rhetoric at Lund University, Sweden. He is a rhetorician, an argumentation scholar, an exegete, and a pedagogue with a focus on both authentic and literary argumentation in political, religious, and educational contexts. His interests include a variety of both classical and modern rhetorical methods and historical and contemporary persuasive and argumentative techniques, as well as hate speech, argument literacy, and rhetorical citizenship.