Seminar Melissa Moyer
Melissa Moyer, invited visiting professor to the Mercè Rodoreda Chair (2024) at the CUNY, Graduate Center, City University of New York.
Melissa Moyer, Professor of English Philology at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, ¿¿will teach a seminar (October 2024) on Sites of Multilingualism: A Critical Ethnographic Approach on contexts of multilingualism in Catalonia from a critical ethnographic focus.
Her contributions to the study of bilingualism and multilingualism include work on multilingualism in Gibraltar, and London, and communication in various institutional sites in Catalunya dedicated to health, tourism, and job recruitment. Her past publications include Language, Migration and Social Inequalities (2018) co-edited with Alexandre Duchêne and Celia Roberts, a special issue on Language, Mobility and Work in the Journal of Language and Intercultural Communication (2018), her book on methods The Blackwell Guide to Research Methods in Bilingualism and Multilingualism (2008), co-edited with Li Wei, and which received the 2009 book prize by the British Association of Applied Linguistics. Her current areas of interest include language, identity, and functional diversity.