Jennifer Jenkins

Jennifer Jenkins is Professor of Global Englishes and founding Director of the Centre for Global Englishes at the University of Southampton. She has been conducting research into English as an international lingua franca, for over twenty-five years. In addition to numberous journal articles and book chapters, she has published three monographs on this subject: The Phonology of English as an International Language (OUP 2000), English as a Lingua Franca: Attitude and Identity (OUP 2007) and representing her most recent research interest in English in tertiary education, English as a Lingua Franca in the International University (Routledge 2014). She recently completed the extensively revised 3rd edition of her university coursebook, World Englishes (Routledge 2003/2009), now renamed Global Englishes. She is founding editor of the book series, Developments in ELF (De Gruyter Mouton).