Mukul Saxena
Professor
Humanities and Social Sciences ,
The University of Nottingham Ningbo, China
China
Biography
Before joining the School of English at The University of Nottingham Ningbo China (UNNC), I worked as Associate Professor in the Centre for Applied Linguistics at the University of Warwick (Coventry, UK); Head of Department of English and Applied Linguistics at the University of Brunei Darussalam (Brunei Darussalam); Senior Lecturer at the University of York St John (York, UK); Research Associate at the University of Lancaster (Lancaster, UK); and Tutor at the University of York, (York, UK).
Research Interest
In the past, I have worked on ESRC projects in the UK and government funded projects in Brunei Darussalam in the areas of bilingual discourse in English classrooms, world Englishes and multilingualism in the community, and multilingual and digital literacies. Currently, I am involved in an international, interdisciplinary research project in the area of intercultural health education and communication as well as research on intercultural communication in HE classrooms.
Publications
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Saxena, M. (2011) Reified languages and scripts versus real literacy values and practices: insights from research with young bilinguals in an Islamic state. Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education Compare, 41 (2), 277 - 29241 (2), 277 - 292 http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03057925.2011.547290#.U72wp42FEZ4
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Saxena, M. & Martin-Jones, M. (eds.) (2013) Multilingual Resources in Classroom Interaction: Ethnographic and Discourse Analytic Perspective. A special issue of Language and Education, UK: Taylor & Francis http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09500782.2013.788020#.U799aI2FEZ4
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Saxena, M. (2014, forthcoming) ‘Critical Diglossia’ & ‘Lifestyle Diglossia’: Development and the Interaction between Multilingualism, Cultural Diversity and English. International Journal of Sociology of Language
