Notes on Contributors
Francis Bangou
is an Associate Professor with the Faculty of Education at the University of Ottawa. His research is inspired mainly by the work of the poststructural thinkers and focuses on the adaptation of second language teachers and learners to unfamiliar teaching and learning environments, the teaching of the language of schooling in official-language minority contexts, and the implementation of information and communication technologies in second language teacher education. He is currently the Director of the research group Educlang, and the President of the Canadian Applied Linguistics Association.
Maria Bastien-Valenca
is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Education and Psychology at Walla Walla University. Her doctoral research focused on reconceptualizing family literacies in the context of newcomer families in Canada. At Walla Walla University, Maria is the elementary education professor of record and teaches courses relating to literacies, diversity, social studies, and multigrade classrooms. Her research interests include language studies, newcomer families, and Multiple Literacies Theory.
Joff P. N. Bradley
is associate professor in the faculty of language studies at Teikyo University in Tokyo, Japan. He is the co-author of Deleuze and Buddhism with Tony See and co-writer of A Pedagogy of Cinema. He has co-edited Educational Philosophy and New French Thought and Principles of Transversality in Globalization and Education with David R. Cole. He is a member of the New Tokyo Group in Japan, a committed group of language scholars working on critical pedagogy projects in the nation’s capital and beyond.
Martina Emke
is an experienced English teacher who taught in further education, higher education and in a vocational school. For the European Centre for Modern Languages, Martina has worked as a teacher educator and materials developer in the DOTS, MOREDOTS and ICT-REV projects. As a part-time doctoral researcher at the Open University (United Kingdom), Martina investigated freelance language teachers’ Twitter-based professional development; she has recently completed her thesis. Other research interests include algorithmic education, networked learning and the use of social media in language teaching and learning.
Douglas Fleming
is an Associate Professor with the Faculty of Education at the University of Ottawa. His research and teaching focus on ESL and critical notions of citizenship related to equity and multilingual communities. He has worked on numerous professional, curriculum and material development projects for government, school districts, teacher associations and NGOs while serving on the executive of the Citizenship Education Research Network. Most recently, Douglas directed a multi-year professional development and research project with English secondary school teachers in rural China.
Roumiana Ilieva
is an Associate Professor in Second Language Education at Simon Fraser University. Her research interests include language teacher identities, internationalization of education, migration, and integration.
Brian Morgan
is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at Glendon College, York University, in Toronto. His research interests include critical applied linguistics, language and identity, English for academic purposes, language teacher education, and critical media literacies/multiliteracies in ESL. Brian is a co-editor (along with Alastair Pennycook and Ryuko Kubota) of the Critical Language and Literacy Studies series published by Multilingual Matters.
Enrica Piccardo
is a Professor of Applied Linguistics and Language Education at OISE – University of Toronto. A researcher in language education, she has been collaborating with the Council of Europe (COE) since 2008 on major international projects and is a co-author of the newly released Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) Companion Volume. She has coordinated various international projects funded by the Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) of Canada and by the COE. Her research includes plurilingualism, emotions and creativity in language education, and assessment and its role in the curriculum. She has recently published The Action-oriented Approach: For a Dynamic Vision of Language Education, co-authored with Brian North (Multilingual Matters, 2019).
Aisha Ravindran
is a Doctoral Candidate in Languages, Cultures, and Literacies at the Faculty of Education at Simon Fraser University. Her research interests include internationalization of education, student and teacher identities, and the transition experiences of international students. She is currently a Senior Instructor (Educational Leadership) at The University of British Columbia, Okanagan Campus.
Gene Vasilopoulos
is a Doctoral Candidate at the Faculty of Education, University of Ottawa. She has over a decade of experience in English Language Education/English for Academic Purposes instruction at post-secondary institutions in Canada and abroad. Her doctoral research centers on experimenting with Deleuzian ontology in language education, more specifically in relation to the internationalization of higher education in Canada. Her publications appear in the Journal of Language, Identity and Education, the Journal of International Students, the Canadian Bureau for International Education, PhD Research Series, and the Canadian Journal of New Scholars in Education.
Monica Waterhouse
is an Associate Professor in the Département de Langues, linguistiques et traduction, Université Laval, where she teaches courses in research methodology, critical perspectives on culture and language education, and English Second Language pedagogy. Her current research project, supported by the Fonds de recherche du Québec, works with the Deleuzian concept of affect to study the social and curricular stakes of language learning in newcomer language programs and to explore the potential of arts-based pedagogies in these contexts. She is currently an external member of the EducLang research group at the University of Ottawa.