Biographical note

Jan Blommaert is Professor of Language, Culture and Globalization at Tilburg University (The Netherlands) and is also affiliated to Ghent University (Belgium) and the University of the Western Cape (South Africa). He is the Director of the Babylon Research Center at Tilburg University. Ben Rampton is Professor of Applied & Sociolinguistics at King's College London. Using linguistic ethnography and interactional sociolinguistics, his work covers urban multilingualism; youth, ethnicity and social class; conflict and (in)securitization; and language education policy and practice. He is the founding editor of Working Papers in Urban Language and Literacies. Anna De Fina is Professor of Language and Linguistics and Chair of the Italian Department, Georgetown University, USA. She has published widely in sociolinguistics and narrative analysis.  Her most recent publication is The Cambridge Handbook of Discourse Studies (2020, Cambridge University Press, edited with Alexandra Georgakopoulou).