Alfonso DelPercio is AssociateProfessor of Applied Linguistics. He was trained in the fields of appliedlinguistics, critical sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology at theUniversity of St. Gallen, University of Fribourg and University of Chicago. Hisethnographic and discourse analytic research deals with the intersection oflanguage and political economy and focuses on language, migration andgovernmentality, and the links between language, work, and social inequality. Theoutputs of Alfonso’s research have appeared in books published by Routledge, Bloomsbury, Wiley, Oxford University Press, MultilingualMatters, 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, Cultureand 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 NeoliberalGovernmentality” (with Prof. Luisa Martin Rojo, Routledge, 2019), and iscurrently working on a single authored book entitled “Multilingualism and StatePropaganda“ (Routledge, under contract). Alfonso is co-editor of the journal Language,Culture and Society and regularly publishes short ethnographic pieces inhis blog: disruptiveinequalities.com.