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Visiting Scholars / Academics
ELL usually invites internationally renowned scholars with the aims of (i) enhancing the culture of scholarly exchange in the department, (ii) developing the research capacity of faculty, (iii) providing opportunities for faculty to network for possible future collaborations, and (iv) enhancing the learning experience of our students through guest lectures by our eminent visiting professors.
Evan Gottlieb
Professor, College of Liberal Arts, Oregon State University
Research Interests:
Eighteenth-century and Romantic British literature; science fiction and fantasy; literary theory
Visit Duration: 2 to 6 September 2024
Xiao Lan Curdt-Christiansen
Professor, Department of Education, University of Bath
Research Interests:
Ideological, sociocultural-cognitive and policy perspectives on language learning with particular focus on children’s multilingual education and biliteracy development
Visit Duration: 19 to 23 August 2024
Gary Barkhuizen
Professor, Faculty of Arts, University of Auckland
Research Interests:
Language teacher education, teacher and learner identity, study abroad and narrative inquiry
Visit Duration: 17 to 19 October 2023
Øystein Gilje
Professor, Department of Teacher Education and School Research, University of Oslo
Research Interests:
Digital learning, assessment and students´ multimodal composing in and out of school
Visit Duration: 30 January to 3 February 2023
Maria Grazia Sindoni
Professor, Department of Ancient and Modern Civilisations, University of Messina
Research Interests:
Video-mediated spontaneous interaction, applied linguistics, multimodal studies, digital literacies, systemic-functional grammar, and multimodal critical discourse analysis
Visit Duration: 30 October to 3 November 2022
Joseph Lo Bianco
Professor, Melbourne Graduate School of Education, University of Melbourne
Research Interests:
Language Policy Planning, Multilingual Education, Literacy & Multi-literacies & Language Rights
Visit Duration: 15 to 18 September 2019
John Bateman
Professor, Departments of Linguistics and Literature, University of Bremen
Research Interests:
Functional linguistics, semiotics, computational linguistics (particularly natural language generation, discourse and dialogue), formal ontology, and the theory and practice of multimodality
Visit Duration: 26 to 30 March 2019
Diane Pecorari
Professor, Department of English, City University of Hong Kong
Research Interests:
Educational linguistics, English for Academic Purposes, Aspects of second language writing, including source use and intertextuality
Visit Duration: 7 to 9 March 2019