Suresh Canagarajah

Suresh Canagarajah
Suresh Canagarajah
Known for	Work on translanguaging and linguistic imperialism
Academic background
Education	University of Kelaniya (BA); Bowling Green State University (MA); University of Texas at Austin (PhD);
Thesis	Negotiating competing discourses and identities: A sociolinguistic analysis of challenges in academic writing for minority students (1990)
Academic work
Discipline	Linguist
Sub-discipline	English as a second or foreign language
Institutions	Pennsylvania State University; Baruch College;

Athelstan Suresh Canagarajah is a linguist. He is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Applied linguistics, English, and Asian studies at Pennsylvania State University. He has been a professor there since 2007. He researches World Englishes and teaching English to speakers of other languages. He has published works on translingualism, translanguaging,^[1] linguistic imperialism,^[2] and social and political issues in language education.^[3] His book, Translingual Practice: Global Englishes and Cosmopolitan Relations, has won three nationally recognized best book awards.^[4]^[5]^[6]

He is a Tamil person. Canagarajah was born in Sri Lanka.

Selected publications

Translingual Practice: Global Englishes and Cosmopolitan Relations. New York and Abingdon: Routledge, 2013. pp. xxii-230.
Canagarajah, A. (1999). Resisting linguistic imperialism in English language teaching. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Canagarajah was Editor of TESOL Quarterly 2005-2010.
He was president of the American Association of Applied Linguistics, 2011-2012.^[7]

American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) 2020 Best Book Award for Routledge Handbook for Migration and Language^[5]
American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) 2016 Inaugural Best Book Award for Translingual Practice: Global Englishes and Cosmopolitan Relations^[8]
British Association for Applied Linguistics (BAAL) 2014 Book Prize for Translingual Practice: Global Englishes and Cosmopolitan Relations^[6]
Modern Language Association of America 2012-2013 Mina P. Shaughnessy Award for Translingual Practice: Global Englishes and Cosmopolitan Relations^[4]
Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) 2007 Richard Braddock Award for “The Place of World Englishes in Composition: Pluralization Continued"^[9]
Modern Language Association of America 1999 Mina P. Shaughnessy Award for Resisting Linguistic Imperialism in English Teaching^[4]

↑ Overstreet, Matthew (June 2, 2016). "The Global Inevitable: A Review of Canagarajah's Translingual Practice". Enculturation. Retrieved September 20, 2018.
↑ Bhatt, Rakesh (2002). "Review of Suresh Canagarajah: Resisting linguistic imperialism in English teaching". Language in Society. 31 (4): 631–635. doi:10.1017/S0047404502274059. S2CID 145505208.
↑ Campbell, Lee (2003). "Review: 'A Geopolitics of Academic Writing'". Journal of Ancient Civilizations. 23 (2): 455–459. JSTOR 20866575.
↑ ^4.0 ^4.1 ^4.2 "Mina P. Shaughnessy Prize Winners". Modern Language Association. Retrieved 2022-12-02.
↑ ^5.0 ^5.1 "Book Award - American Association For Applied Linguistics". www.aaal.org. Retrieved 2022-11-18.
↑ ^6.0 ^6.1 Linguistics, British Association for Applied. "Book Prize". BAAL. Retrieved 2022-12-02.
↑ "Suresh Canagarajah – Department of English". Retrieved 2023-02-01.
↑ "AAALetter - March 2016 - American Association For Applied Linguistics". www.aaal.org. Retrieved 2022-12-02.
↑ "CCCC Richard Braddock Award". Conference on College Composition and Communication. 2018-06-06. Retrieved 2022-12-02.