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Ana Deumert is a Professor of Linguistics at the University of Cape Town. Her research program is located within the broad field of sociolinguistics and has a strong transdisciplinary focus. Her current work explores the use of language and art in global political movements as well as the contributions decolonial thought can make to sociolinguistic theory. Recent publications include The Sociolinguistics of Everyday Creativity (with Joan Swann, 2018, special issue of Language Sciences), Colonial and Decolonial Linguistics - Knowledges and Epistemes (2020, with Anne Storch and Nick Shepherd), and From Southern Theory to Decolonizing Sociolinguistics (2023, with Sinfree Makoni). She is co-editor of Edinburgh Sociolinguistics, Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact and Encounters (Multilingual Matters, Bristol). She is a recipient of the Neville Alexander Award for the Promotion of Multilingualism (2014) and the Humboldt Research Award (2016). She is an Honorary Research Fellow at University of the West Indies (2022-2024) and was a Professor II at Inland University Of Applied Sciences, Norway (2022-2023). In 2023, she held a visiting professorship at the University of Regensburg, Germany.

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