I am an Assistant Professor of Applied Linguistics, teaching modules that take an interdisciplinary view of language and society. I hold a PhD in Sociolinguistics from King's College London (Centre for Language, Discourse and Communication), was a Postdoctoral Fellow in Linguistics at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, and have lectured on the MA Language in Society at Kingston University, London. My research sits at the crossroads of Sociolinguistics and Discourse Analysis, focusing on subcultures, protest, conflict, urban space, political discourse, digital communication, and media. I am increasingly engaged with Multilingualism, pidgins and creoles in Africa and beyond, World Englishes, and Postcolonial Theory. 

Critical Discourse Studies

Corpus Linguistics

Multimodality

Linguistic Landscape 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

Language and Power (UG)

Analyzing Text (UG)

Intercultural Communication (UG)

Semantics and Pragmatics (UG)

Language and Society (UG)

The Politics of Language in a Globalized World (PG)

Research Methods (PG)

Language and Literature (UG)

Linguistic Landscapes (UG)

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

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