Advisory board

Duncan Brown, University of the Western Cape, South Africa, is Professor of English in the Centre for Multilingualism and Diversities Research. Brown is also a Fellow of the University of KwaZulu-Natal, and a Fellow of the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study. He is PI on a multilingual interdisciplinary project on “Rethinking South African Literature(s)”.

Fred Dervin, Helsinki University, Finland, is Professor of Multicultural Education, and the Director of the TENSION research group (diversities and interculturality in education) and Vice-Director of the SEDUCE doctoral school at Helsinki (society, culture and education)

Claire Ducournau, Université Paul-Valéry-Montpellier 3, France, is a tenured Associate Professor, specialized in sociological approaches to minoritized literature, including cultural hegemonies, mediation processes, identity scholarship, and post- and decolonial theories.

Kathleen Heugh, University of South Australia, is Associate Professor in socio-applied and educational linguistics in UniSA Education Futures and the Centre for Research in Educational and Social Inclusion, and a founding member of the Southern Multilingualisms and Diversities Consortium (of which the CCD research milieu is a founding member).

Pia Lane is Professor of Multilingualism at the Center for Multilingualism in Society across the Lifespan (MultiLing) at the University of Oslo, Norway. She is PI of the project Indigenous Language Resilience: From learners to speakers (2023-2028). Her research focuses on multilingualism in the Arctic, with a particular emphasis on language policy, language shift and language revitalisation in relation to Indigenous and minoritised languages in Northern Norway. Her publications appear in journals such as Language Policy, International Journal of the Sociology of Language and Linguistic Minorities in Europe Online and in edited volumes published by Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, Routledge, Palgrave, De Gruyter, and Wiley-Blackwell. Her edited publications include Negotiating Identities in Nordic Migrant Narratives - Crossing Borders and Telling Lives, Palgrave (Lane, Kjelsvik and Bøstein Myhr 2022) and Standardizing Minority Languages: Competing Ideologies of Authority and Authenticity in the Global Periphery, Routledge (Lane, Costa and De Korne 2017. She is co-editor-in-chief of LME Linguistic Minorities in Europe Online (LME) and serves as a member of the Norwegian Truth and Reconciliation Commission (2018-2023).
Photo: Arne Hauge

Lynn Mario Menezes de Souza, University of São Paulo, Brazil, is Professor of Language Education. One of his recent publications is Glocal Languages and Critical Intercultural Awareness: The South Answers Back (Routledge 2019).

Lourdes Ortega, Georgetown University, USA, is Professor of Linguistics. She is the founding member and leader of the Initiative for Multilingual Studies, and investigates how people learn new languages, particularly in higher education settings.

Vibha Sharma, Aligarh Muslim University, India, is Professor of English with a specialization in theatre and performance in various cultures, for example, American, Indian, Persian, and Arab cultures. She brings in competence in teaching and learning language and culture with theatre.

Godwin Siundu, University of Nairobi, Kenya, is Assistant Professor specialized in identity scholarship and transcultural African literature. Creative and academic writing within different categories of communities, for example in Uganda and Somaliland, forms a unique profile in-between academy and society.

Anna Skyggebjerg, Aarhus University, Denmark, is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Arts and the deputy head of The Danish School of Education (DPU/AU). Her competences include young adult and children’s literature in L1 teaching and learning, migration, and green cultural studies in education.

Lynda Spencer, Rhodes University, South Africa, is Associate Professor, specialized in identity scholarship, more specifically in gender representations in southern African literature.