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- Associate Professor
- IOE - Culture, Communication & Media
- UCL Institute of Education
Alfonso Del
Percio is Associate
Professor of Applied Linguistics. He was trained in the fields of applied
linguistics, critical sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology at the
University of St. Gallen, University of Fribourg and University of Chicago. His
ethnographic and discourse analytic research deals with the intersection of
language and political economy and focuses on language, migration and
governmentality, and the links between language, work, and social inequality. The
outputs of Alfonso’s research have appeared in books published by Routledge, Bloomsbury, Wiley, Oxford University Press, Multilingual
Matters, and Suhrkamp as well as in peer-reviewed journals such as Language and Communication, and Language Policy, Pragmatics and Society, Social Semiotics, Signs and Society, Applied Linguistics Review, Language, Culture
and Society, Langage et Société, Anthropologie et Sociétés. He is co-editor of
“Language, Education and Neoliberalism: Critical Studies in Sociolinguistics”
(with Dr. Mi-Cha Flubacher, Multilingual Matters, 2017), “Language and Neoliberal
Governmentality” (with Prof. Luisa Martin Rojo, Routledge, 2019), and is
currently working on a single authored book entitled “Multilingualism and State
Propaganda“ (Routledge, under contract). Alfonso is co-editor of the journal Language,
Culture and Society and regularly publishes short ethnographic pieces in
his blog: disruptiveinequalities.com.


Language, education, and social inequality. I have been focusing on the management of linguisticdiversity in professional training programmes and vocational education.
Linguistic and cultural diversity in late capitalism. I have a particular interest in the way in whichmultilingualism and cultural differences are commodified by state and corporate actors.
Language, labour and social inequality. I have investigated the role of language and intercultural communication in respect of the distribution of resources in linguistically and culturally diverse work spaces.
Language and migration. I have conducted research on the state’s regulation of international migration as it pertains to the bureaucratic management of linguistic and cultural diversity.
- Language, Migration and Social Difference
- Language, Work and Social Inequality
- Language and Political Economy
- Language and the Nation State
- Language and Governmentality
01-OCT-2019 | Associate Professor in Applied Linguistics | Culture, Communication and Media | UCL Institute of Education, United Kingdom |
01-JAN-2017 | Lecturer | Culture, Communication and Media | UCL Institute of Education, United Kingdom |
01-JUN-2014 – 31-DEC-2016 | PostDoc | Center for Multilingualism in Society across the Lifespan | University of Oslo, Norway |
01-MAR-2013 – 28-FEB-2014 | Visiting PhD Student | Department of Anthropology | University of Chicago, United States |
01-JAN-2012 – 28-FEB-2013 | Research Assistant | Institute of Multilingualism | University of Fribourg, Switzerland |
01-SEP-2010 – 28-FEB-2013 | Research Assistant | Institute for Media and Communications Management | University of St. Gallen, Switzerland |
01-AUG-2009 – 31-AUG-2010 | Research Assistant | IASH | University of Bern, Switzerland |
01-SEP-2008 – 31-JUL-2009 | Research Assistant | German Studies | University of Bern, Switzerland |