I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Applied Linguistics teaching modules concerned with an interdisciplinary view of language and society. I hold a PhD in Sociolinguistics from the Centre for Language, Discourse and Communication at Kings College London and have been a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Linguistics at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. I have also lectured (part-time) for the MA Language in Society at Kingston University, London. My research interests lie at the intersection of Sociolinguistics and Discourse Analysis, with a particular focus on subcultures and their discourses, protest, conflict, urban space, political discourse, new communication technologies and the mass media. I have also been increasingly interested in Multilingualism, pidgins and creoles in Africa and beyond, World Englishes and Postcolonial Theory.

Critical Discourse Studies

Corpus Linguistics

Multimodality

Linguistic Landscapes studies

Assistant Professor, Department of Applied Linguistics, XJTLU - 2018 to present

Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Linguistics, University of the Witwatersrand - 2013 to 2017

Lecturer (part-time), Department of Languages and Linguistics, Kingston University - 2012

Analyzing Text (UG)

Intercultural Communication (UG)

Semantics Pragmatics (UG)

Language Society (UG)

The Politics of Language in a Globalized World (PG)

Research Methods (PG)

Language Literature (UG)

Linguistic Landscapes (UG)

Honorary Lecturer, Department of English, University of Liverpool - 2018 to 2021

Research Fellow, Department of Linguistics, University of the Witwatersrand - 2017 to 2020

Visiting Fellow, Centre for Multilingualism and Diversities Research, University of the Western Cape - 2014