Ingrid Piller
Ingrid Piller is Professor of Applied Linguistics at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. She served as Executive Director of 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 in 2009, 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 global justice. The overarching question of her work is how the social order is produced and reproduced through linguistic practices and ideologies. She has published widely in these areas and many of her publications are available for open access here on Language-on-the-Move at our “Resources” section. Her new textbook Intercultural Communication: A Critical Introduction was published by Edinburgh University Press in 2011.
You can find out more about Ingrid in this interview with JALT’s Language Teacher.
