Natasha E. Ravyse lectures at the North-West University (Faculty of Law), South Africa, and has also received an excellence award in lecturing. She has a PhD in linguistics and literary theory, which was accepted without condition by her international reviewers. She has dedicated her entire postgraduate career to exploring subcultural languages from both a literature and real-world perspective. Her MA received an institutional excellence award for being the best dissertation in 2014, and she is a member of an international honours society for ranking in the top 15% of scholars, on a national stage. She is continuing her research and publications in academic journals.