Kingsley BOLTON (Overseas Fellow)
Fields of Study:
English in Asia, English in higher education, language and media, multilingualism, sociolinguistics, and world Englishes
Profile:
Kingsley Bolton is Professor Emeritus at Stockholm University, and Honorary Professor in the Social Sciences Research Centre of The University of Hong Kong. He is a Life Member of the HKAH.
After teaching for more than twenty years in Hong Kong, he served for six years as Professor and Head of the English Department at Stockholm University, before returning to the city to serve as Chair Professor of English at City University of Hong Kong. He is now Professor of English Linguistics (Emeritus) at Stockholm University Sweden, but continues to be active in research on Hong Kong and across the Asian region. From 2003-04, he served as Elected President of the International Association for World Englishes (IAWE), the global association for English linguists and language scholars, and he is currently Executive Director of IAWE.
He is Co-editor of the journal World Englishes (Wiley-Blackwell), Co-editor of the journal Educational Studies (Routledge), and Series Editor of a new book series with Routledge entitled Multilingual Asia. He has published widely on English in the Asian region, the history of English in China, and many other topics in English linguistics and sociolinguistics. His latest book publication (with Werner Botha and Andy Kirkpatrick) is the The Handbook of Asian Englishes (Wiley-Blackwell, 2020).
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