Prof Lynn Mario T. Menezes de Souza

Lynn Mario T. Menezes de Souza is senior full professor at the Modern Languages Department of the University of São Paulo, Brazil, where he engages in and supervises doctoral and post-doctoral research in language policy, literacy studies, racism, decoloniality and interculturality. He has held visiting professorships in Italy, India, Canada and Australia. 

His publications include the co-edited volumes: Postcolonial Perspectives on Global Citizenship Education (2012) and Glocal Languages and Critical Intercultural Awareness: the south answers back (2019). 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) Journal of Multilingual Theories and Practices vol. 4.2; Conversation with Lynn Mario Menezes de Souza in Deumert, A. & Makoni, S. (eds) 2023 From Southern Theory to Decolonizing Sociolinguistics.

Prof Quentin Williams

Quentin Williams is Director of the Centre for Multilingualism and Diversities Research (CMDR) and Full Professor of Linguistics in the Linguistics Department at the University of the Western Cape (UWC). He was previously the Ghent Chair Professor (Leerstoel Houer) at the Centre for Afrikaans and the study of South Africa at Ghent University (Belgium) (2022). He is Co-Editor of the journal Multilingual Margins: a journal of Multilingualism from the periphery, editorial board member of the journal Aweh: a journal for minoritized languages, founder and chairperson of the Society virrieAdvancement van Kaaps (SAK), and co-founder of the Heal the Hood Hip Hop Lecture Series, a forum for the African Hip Hop Indaba. His research interests include but are not limited to multilingualism, linguistic citizenship, popular culture (specifically Hip Hop language and culture), youth multilingualism, marginal multilingual practices in markets, the intellectualisation of Kaaps (also known as Afrikaaps), language activism and public sociolinguistics, and Kaaps gospel music. He has published in high impact sociolinguistic and applied linguistic journals, including the journals of Applied Linguistics, Applied Linguistics Reviews and Sociolinguistic Studies. His most recent booksare Global Hiphopography, with Jaspal Singh (Palgrave, 2023) and Struggles for Multilingualism and Linguistic Citizenship with Tommaso Milani and Ana Deumert (Multilingual Matters, 2022). Previously, he authored Remix Multilingualism (Bloomsbury Press, 2017), and co-edited Neva Again: Hip Hop Art, Activism and Education in post-apartheid South Africa (HSRC Press, 2019, with Adam Haupt, H Samy Alim and Emile YX?), and Making Sense of People and Place in Linguistic Landscapes (Bloomsbury, 2018, with Amiena Peck and Christopher Stroud). He leads the Trilingual Dictionary of Kaaps (TWK) project that will publish the first dictionary of Kaaps (2025) (see here: www.dwkaaps.co.za).