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Dr Miguel Perez-Milans
620A
20 Bedford Way
London
United Kingdom
WC1H OAL
Appointment
- Senior Lecturer In Applied Linguistics
- IOE - Culture, Communication & Media
- UCL Institute of Education
Biography
I am Associate Professor in Applied Linguistics at the Department of Culture, Communication and Media in UCL Institute of Education (UK). I received my PhD. in Socio- and Applied Linguistics from the Autonomous University of Madrid (Spain), followed by a postdoctoral fellowship at King’s College London (2010-2011) and The University of Hong Kong (2011-2012). I have worked as Assistant Professor at The University of Hong Kong (2012-2015) where I have also been appointed Honorary Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education (2016-2017).
My research on language ideology, social interaction and institutions has been published in the form of an authored book in Routledge Critical Series in Multilingualism (2013). Other work has been published in international journals within the fields of socio and applied linguistics such as Journal of Language, Identity and Education (2011), Pragmatics (2011), Linguistics and Education (2012), Spanish in Context (2012), International Journal of Multilingualism (2014), Pedagogies: An International Journal (2015), Language Policy (2015), AILA Review (2016) or Language and Intercultural Communication (2018).
I have edited Special Issues in International Journal of Multilingualism (2014), Language Policy (2015) and AILA Review (2016), as well as the Oxford Handbook of Language Policy and Planning (2018) in co-editorship with James W. Tollefson. My latest editing-related adventure includes Language, Culture and Society (John Benjamins), a new international journal to be launched in 2019 for which I act as Managing Editor.
Research Summary
I am a sociolinguist interested in language, communication and political economy. My past research projects involved the ethnographic and sociolinguistic study of mobility and migration, shifting politics of national identity, institutional neoliberalization, and commodification of language and culture. Lately, my focus have shifted to a closer exploration of trajectories of social actors as they navigate professional fields and labor markets under the conditions of late capitalism.
Some of my latest publications include:
Pérez-Milans, M. & Soto, C. (under contract). Language, ethnicity and the politics of struggle: A critical ethnography of activism. Bristol: Multilingual Matters.
Guo Xiaoyan & Pérez-Milans, M. (in preparation). Markets, selves, and hopes: Returnees and the new global city in China. In: Gao Shuang & Wang Xuan (Eds.), Transnationalizing Chineseness: Language, Mobility, Diversity. London: Multilingual Matters.
Pérez-Milans, M. (in press). Transnational trajectories of multilingual workers: Emerging geographies and spatializing practices of mutant sovereignty. In: Maria Rosa Garrido & Maria Sabaté-Dalmau (Eds.) (2020), Transnational Trajectories of Multilingual Workers: Sociolinguistic Approaches to Emergent Entrepreneurial Selves. Special Issue in International Journal of Multilingualism 17 (1).
Tollefson, James W. & Miguel Pérez-Milans (Eds.) (2018). The Oxford Handbook of Language Policy and Planning. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Soto, C. & Pérez-Milans, M. (2018). Language, neoliberalism and the commodification of pedagogy. Language and Intercultural Communication 18 (5): 490-506.
Teaching Summary
Sociolinguistics; Spoken Discourse Analysis; Research Methods; Intercultural Communication; Critical Readings of Popular Culture; Language Policy and Planning; Bilingualism & Multilingualism; Discourse, Culture & Society.
Appointments
| JAN-2016 | Associate Professor in Applied Linguistics | Culture, Communication and Media | UCL Institute of Education, United Kingdom |
| JAN-2016 – AUG-2017 | Honorary Associate Professor | Faculty of Education | The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong |
| SEP-2013 – DEC-2015 | Assistant Professor - Tenure-track | faculty of Education -Division of English Language Education | The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong |
| SEP-2012 – AUG-2013 | Temporary Assistant Professor | Faculty of Education -Division of English Language Education | The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong |
| SEP-2011 – AUG-2012 | Postdoctoral Fellow | Faculty of Education | The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong |
| SEP-2010 – AUG-2011 | Postdoctoral Fellow | Education and Professional Studies | King's College London, United Kingdom |
| SEP-2008 – FEB-2009 | Visiting Lecturer | Department of Sociology and Communication | University of Salamanca, Spain |
| SEP-2005 – JAN-2013 | Teaching Consultant | East Asian Studies | Open University of Catalonia, Spain |
| MAY-2004 – MAY-2008 | Assistant Researcher | Linguistics and Modern Languages | Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain |
Academic Background
| 2009 | PhD | Doctor of Philosophy – Sociolinguistics | Universidad Autonoma de Madrid |
| 2004 | MA | Master of Arts – Applied Linguistics | Universidad Autonoma de Madrid |
| 2003 | P.Grad Dip | Postgraduate Diploma – Chinese studies | Universidad Autonoma de Madrid |
| 2002 | LCT | Licenciatura – Linguistics | Universidad Autonoma de Madrid |
| 2000 | B.Ed | Bachelor of Education – Education | Universidad Complutense de Madrid |
