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.