Ingrid Piller is Professor of Applied Linguistics at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. She directed the Adult Migrant English Program Research Centre (AMEP RC) from 2007 to 2008. Other universities she has been affiliated with include Zayed University, Abu Dhabi, UAE, where she served as founding director of the UAE Center for Bilingualism and Bilingual Education, the University of Basel, Switzerland, where she held the Chair of English Sociolinguistics and the Sociology of English as a Global Language, the University of Sydney, Hamburg University, and Ithaca College. Ingrid holds a PhD in English Linguistics from the Technical University Dresden, Germany.
Ingrid’s research interests are in intercultural communication, language learning, multilingualism, and how they intersect with social inclusion and justice. The overarching question of her work is how the social order is produced and reproduced through linguistic practices and ideologies. She is currently writing a textbook about Intercultural Communication for Edinburgh University Press, which aims to provide a critical introduction to the field from a sociolinguistic and discourse-analytic perspective.
You can find out more about Ingrid in this interview with JALT’s Language Teacher.
