Author Biographies

Will Baker is an associate professor of applied linguistics and director of the Centre for Global Englishes at the University of Southampton, UK. His research interests are intercultural and transcultural communication, English as a lingua franca, English medium education, intercultural education and citizenship, and decolonial ELT. Recent publications include Intercultural and Transcultural Awareness in Language Teaching (2022 Cambridge University Press), Baker, W., & Ishikawa, T. Transcultural Communication Through Global Englishes (2021 Routledge), Tsou, W., & Baker, W. (Eds.). English-Medium Instruction Translanguaging Practices in Asia (2021 Springer), and co-editor of the Routledge Handbook of English as a Lingua Franca (2018).

Helen Basturkmen is professor of applied linguistics and language teaching at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. She has written three books on English for specific and academic purposes (Palgrave Macmillan 2010; Routledge 2006, 2021) and edited the multivolume work, English for Academic Purposes (Routledge 2015). Her research bridges topics in language teacher education, discourse analysis, and specialized registers of English. Her current research projects include topics that forge links between English medium instruction and EAP.

Diane D. Belcher, professor of applied linguistics at Georgia State University, has published a number of books, articles, and book chapters primarily about advanced academic literacy. Former co-editor of English for Specific Purposes and TESOL Quarterly, she currently co-edits the Michigan Series on Teaching Multilingual Writers.

Vijay K. Bhatia is adjunct professor in the Department of English, the City University of Hong Kong. His research interests include (critical) genre theory; analysis of academic and professional discourses, particularly in legal, business, promotional, and new media contexts; English for specific purposes (ESP) and professional communication; and simplification and easification of legal and other public documents. He has more than 200 publications to his credit. Three of his monographs on genre theory - Analysing Genre: Language Use in Professional Settings (1993), Worlds of Written Discourse: A Genre-Based View (2004), and Critical Genre Analysis: Interdiscursive Performance in Professional Practice (2017) are widely used in genre theory and practice.

Susan Bosher, PhD, is professor and director of English as a Second Language (ESL), St. Catherine University, St. Paul, Minnesota. She taught English for cross-cultural nursing for pre-nursing immigrant and international students for over 10?years and has written two ESL for nursing textbooks: English for Nursing: Academic Skills and Talk Like a Nurse as well as co-edited the anthology: Transforming Nursing Education: The Culturally Inclusive Environment. She has conducted research and given workshops for nurse educators on various topics related to ESL students in nursing. She has also worked on English for healthcare projects in Colombia, Eritrea, Taiwan, and Ukraine.

Clarice Chan is a researcher and practitioner in the areas of ESP, English for academic purposes (EAP), and business communication. She supervises doctoral students in TESOL at the University of St Andrews, UK. She is co-editor (with Catherine Nickerson) of a special issue of English for Specific Purposes entitled "Business English: Research into Professional Practice" (2023-2024). Her paper, "Proposing and Illustrating a Research-Informed Approach to Curriculum Development for Specific Topics in Business English," published in English for Specific Purposes (2018), received the inaugural award for "Outstanding Article on Business Communication in Non-ABC Journal" from the Association for Business Communication (ABC), USA.

Dr. Maggie Charles taught EAP at Oxford University for many years, specializing in academic writing. She currently works on the Cara EAP programme for exiled Syrian academics. Her main research interests are in the analysis of academic discourse and the use of corpora in EAP writing pedagogy, especially data-driven learning. She has published widely in these areas, most recently in Journal of EAP, Applied Corpus Linguistics, and The Routledge Handbook of Corpora and English Language Teaching and Learning (Routledge 2023). Her latest book is Corpora in ESP/EAP Writing Instruction co-edited with Ana Frankenberg-Garcia (Routledge 2021).

An Cheng is professor of English at Oklahoma State University, USA. He is interested in the genre-based framework of teaching and learning writing. He has published in many prominent journals. He is the author of Genre and Graduate-Level Research Writing from the University of Michigan Press.

Ulla Connor is the Barbara E. and Karl R. Zimmer Chair in Intercultural Communication at Indiana University in Indianapolis.

Averil Coxhead is a professor in applied linguistics in the School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, Victoria University of Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand. She is the co-author of Measuring the Vocabulary Size of Native Speakers (2021; John Benjamins) with Paul Nation and English for Vocational Purposes: Language Use in Trades Education (2020; Routledge) with Jean Parkinson, James Mackay, and Emma McLaughlin. Averil's current research includes vocabulary in trades education and specialized vocabulary in bilingual contexts.

Ron Darvin is an assistant professor in the Department of Language and Literacy Education of the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. His research examines issues of identity and investment in language learning, technology, and critical pedagogy. He has published in English for Specific Purposes, Language Teaching, and Language Learning & Technology and is the recipient of the 2020 Dissertation Award of the American Association of Applied Linguistics (AAAL) and the 2017 Emerging Scholar Award of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) Language and Social Processes SIG.

Dan Douglas is an emeritus professor in the applied linguistics program at Iowa State University. He has published extensively on language assessment and language for specific purposes.

Dacia Dressen-Hammouda is a professor in English for specific purposes at Université Clermont Auvergne and research member of ACTé (Activité, Connaissance, Transmission, Education). Her research examines the interactions between sociocultural context and situated communication practices. Her current projects focus on teaching and evaluating professional and multimodal digital literacies, the effects of AI-driven tools on developing writing competency, digital science communication practices, and the implications of indexicality for international writers' ability to negotiate their positions through writing.

Fan Fang obtained his PhD from the Centre for Global Englishes, University of Southampton, UK. He is currently professor at Shantou University, China. His research interests include applied linguistics, intercultural communication, and teacher education. He has published more than 80 articles in both home and international journals. Recent publications include Re-positioning Accent Attitude in the Global Englishes Paradigm (Routledge) and two edited volumes titled Policies, Politics, and Ideologies of English Medium Instruction in Asian Universities: Unsettling Critical Edges (co-edited with Dr. Pramod K. Sah) and English-Medium Instruction Pedagogies in Multilingual Universities in Asia (co-edited with Dr. Pramod K. Sah).

Christine B. Feak is the lead lecturer for EAP writing courses at the English Language Institute, University of Michigan, and a member of the African Studies Center where she serves as the writing mentor for the University of Michigan African Presidential Scholars. She is co-author (with John Swales) of Academic Writing for Graduate Students. From 2015 to 2022, she was co-editor-in-chief of English for Specific Purposes. Her current research interests include research writing in medicine and business, writing for publication needs of scholars in low- and middle-income countries, and academic writing curricula development.

Gibson Ferguson is an honorary research fellow at the University of Shefield. Now retired, he was formerly reader in applied linguistics and director of the MA program in applied linguistics. Prior to this, he was involved in teaching medical English at the University of Edinburgh. His publications include articles in various well-known journals, book chapters, edited books, and a volume on language policy. His research interests encompass ESP, language policy, and corpus linguistics.

John Flowerdew is a visiting professor at the University of Lancaster and a visiting research fellow at Birkbeck, University of London. He was previously a professor at City University of Hong Kong and at the University of Leeds, UK. His research is in the fields of applied linguistics and discourse analysis. His books include Academic Listening: Research Perspectives (Cambridge), Research Perspectives on English for Academic Purposes (with M. Peacock) (Cambridge), Second Language...