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Bio

Soraya holds a PhD and PGDip from the School of Education at the University of Cape Town. Her PhD research was on teaching writing, critical literacy and academic literacies to higher education students. She has an MA in English Literature from the University of the Western Cape. Her MA thesis was a comparative study of two black Southern African women writers. She has lectured English Communication at a university of technology and worked at a writing centre there. Prior to her return to postgraduate study, she was an online editor for 24.com and technical writer at a technology company. Her research interests include academic literacies, teacher education, critical pedagogy, multimodalities with an emphasis on the visual, using technology in education and debates around race, gender, language and literacies.

Publications

• Abdulatief, S., Guzula, X., and McKinney, C. 2021. Delinking from colonial language ideologies: Creating third spaces in teacher education. In Language and Decoloniality in Higher Education. Reclaiming Voices from the South. Z. Bock and C. Stroud, Eds. London: Bloomsbury.  
• Abdulatief, S. 2021. Thirdspace thinking: Expanding the paradigm of academic literacies to reposition multilingual preservice science teachers. In Decoloniality, Language and Literacy. Conversations with Teacher Educators. C. McKinney and P. Christie, Eds.  Bristol, UK: Multilingual Matters
• Abdulatief, S. and Guzula, X. 2018. Emerging Academics: Using WhatsApp to Share Novice and Expert Resources in a Postgraduate Writing Group. In Global Academic Publishing. Policies, Perspectives and Pedagogies. M. J. Curry, and T. Lillis, Eds. Bristol, UK: Multilingual Matters. 
• Abdulatief, S. 2016. Surviving and succeeding: The first-generation challenge. In Postgraduate Study in South Africa. Surviving and Succeeding. L. Frick, P. Motshoane, C. McMaster, and C. Murphy, Eds. Stellenbosch, South Africa: Sun Media.