Prof. David Gramling
Professor
University of British Columbia
David Gramling is Professor of multilingual humanities at the University of British Columbia, on the sovereign and unceded land of the hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓-speaking Musqueam people of the Lower Fraser River delta.
David served as Department Head of Central, Eastern, and Northern European Studies from 2020-2024, is a proud teacher of beginning-level additional languages (German), a literary translator from Turkish of Kemal Varol, Murathan Mungan, Ayşegül Savaş and Sabahattin Ali, and an author, co-author, co-editor, or co-translator of 8 books currently in print, along with 50+ articles in Applied Linguistics, translation studies, literary criticism, Disability studies, and critical theory.
David’s concept of the linguacene emerged first in The Invention of Monolingualism (2016, winner of the AAAL Book Prize for 2018). With Chantelle Warner, David is series editor of Trends in Applied Linguistics (De Gruyter) and Co-PI with Ervin Malakaj of the 2025-2030 project “Linguaphobia, Linguistic Indifference, and the Monolingual University”, funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
In 2026, David was nominated and chosen by the Province of Lower Saxony (Germany) Academy of Sciences for an inaugural Hannah Arendt Fellowship on “Linguistic Disobedience and the Democracies of the Future.”
Prof. Jean-Marc Dewaele
Professor, VIZJA University, Warsaw, Poland
Honorary Professor at University College London and Emeritus
Professor at Birkbeck, University of London
Jean-Marc Dewaele is Professor in Applied Linguistics at VIZJA University, Warsaw, Poland; Honorary Professor at University College London and Emeritus Professor at Birkbeck, University of London.
He has published and edited 10 books, around 400 papers and chapters on emotion and individual differences in multilingualism and foreign language learning. He is former president of the International Association of Multilingualism, the European Second Language Association and the International Association for the Psychology of Language Learning.
He is General Editor of the Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development. He won the Equality and Diversity Research Award from the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (2013), the Robert Gardner Award from the International Association of Language and Social Psychology (2016) and the Distinguished Scholar Award from the European Second Language Association (2022). He was ranked as the 2nd most influential linguist in the world in the Stanford rankings 2025.
Prof. Lynn Mario T. Menezes de Souza
Senior Professor
Universidade de São Paulo
Lynn Mario T. Menezes de Souza is a senior professor in the Department of Modern Languages at Universidade de São Paulo, where he supervises graduate and postdoctoral research in various facets of applied linguistics. Having begun his academic career in Mozambique, he has been visiting professor in Italy, Scandinavia, India, Canada, South Africa and Australia.
His most recent publications in English include ‘Coloniality, Epistemicide and Language Learning in Brazil’ in Limerick, N. et al (eds) 2024 Multilingual Nations, Monolingual Schools; ‘Kshetra and the nurturing of a plurilingual ethos’ (2024) in Journal of Multilingual Theories and Practices vol. 4.2; and ‘Southernizing Linguistics’ in Entanglements: Between Decolonial and Southernizing Linguistics, Makoni et al (eds.) 2025.
Prof. Shannon Sauro (Ph.D)
Professor, Department of Education
University of Maryland
President, UNICollaboration
