ABSTRACT
A. Suresh Canagarajah is the Kirby Professor in Language Learning at Pennsylvania State University. He teaches World Englishes, Teaching and Research in Second Language Writing, Postcolonial Studies, and Theories of Rhetoric and Composition in the Departments of English and Applied Linguistics. He has published on bilingual communication, literacy, and English-language teaching in professional journals. His book, Resisting Linguistic Imperialism in English Teaching (Oxford University Press, 1999), won the Modern Language Association’s Mina Shaughnessy Award for the best research publication on the teaching of language and literacy. His subsequent publication, Geopolitics of Academic Writing (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2002), won the Gary Olson Award for the best book in social and rhetorical theory. His study of World Englishes in Composition won the 2007 Braddock Award for the best article in the College Composition and Communication journal.
