Editorial Committee

Rajesh Kumar (PhD, Illinois) is Professor of Linguistics and English in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras. The areas of his teaching and research include theoretical linguistics, language and mind, and language and society. He has published several papers in journals of National and International repute and he is the author of several books. Some of his publications are Negation and licensing of negative polarity items in Hindi syntax, Some landmarks in the history of ideas — Jayant Lele lectures (co-edited with R. K. Agnihotri), Linguistic Foundations of Identity: Readings in Language, Literature, and Contemporary Cultures (co-edited with Om Prakash).
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5268-3080
Scopus Author ID: 56444615700

Suranjana Barua (PhD, University of Delhi) is an Associate Professor of Linguistics in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Information Technology Guwahati, Assam, India. She is an accredited Language Specialist and Aviation English Trainer under Airports Authority of India, Ministry of Civil Aviation, Govt. of India and has served as a language consultant for many organizations across India. A well-known translator of Assamese fiction, her latest translation into English is a collection of Assamese short stories by Golap Khound titled Girmit (2023) and her latest book is titled Revelation of Self in Language: Narrative Identity as Emergent in Conversation (2023). She has served on the Editorial Board for the journal Language and Language Teaching since its inception in 2012.
https://www.iiitg.ac.in/humanities-and-social-science/suranjana-barua

Devaki Lakshminarayan holds a Ph.D. in Psycholinguistics from the University of Mysore (1987). She had earlier completed her post-graduation in Psychology from Bangalore University. She also holds a Masters in Clinical Linguistics from the University of Groningen, The Netherlands. She has been with the Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore since 1986 and has over 22 years of research experience in Academics. Her areas of interest are language learning, bilingualism and bilingual education, and the relation between language and cognition. She has published a number of papers in national and international research and education journals.
https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=Devaki+Lakshminarayan&oq=deva

V.K. Karthika received her Ph. D. in English Language Education from EFL-U, Hyderabad. She now teaches English at the National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli (NIT Trichy). She earned her Master’s in TESOL Studies from the University of Leeds, after completing her M.A. in English Literature with a Gold Medal from Pondicherry University and her B.A. in English as a rank holder from MG University. Since July 2023, she has served on NCERT’s National Syllabus and Teaching-Learning Material Committee. Her research, published in journals including ELT Journal, Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, Economic and Political Weekly, Journal of Asia TEFL, and Peace Review, explores communicative peace, sustainable development goals, design thinking, and cultural studies, with focus on vulnerability, subjectivity, and intersections of language, literature, and popular culture.
https://www.nitt.edu/home/academics/departments/humanities/faculty/karthika/

Achla M. Raina is a former professor of English and Linguistics, IIT Kanpur. She works in the areas of cognitive linguistics, pragmatics, descriptive linguistics and computational linguistics. Her empirical domain covers Indic and Dravidian languages, and occasionally, sign languages. Her work on event semantics and grammaticalisation figures among some of her recent contributions leveraging the principles of cognitive linguistics. Raina’s engagement with Kashmiri, her first language, has been a life-long one; she has documented several atypical features of this Indic language. Other than linguistics, her teaching interests include language pedagogy and cognitive science. She has taught English to generations of undergraduate students from disadvantaged linguistic backgrounds. She is an Institute Fellow of IIT Kanpur.

Lina Mukhopadhyay is a professor at the Department of Training and Development, School of English Language Education, The English and Foreign Languages University (EFLU, formerly CIEFL), Hyderabad, India. Her areas of expertise are bi/multilingual education, second language acquisition, language assessment, and academic writing. She has been a part of collaborative research with the University of Cambridge to investigate the language learning outcomes of primary grade multilingual Indian learners studying in challenging contexts and their performance on multilingual multimodal reading assessments. She is on the editorial board of Languaging, Journal of Education and Language and Ideology. She has guest edited special issues in FORTELL, and Journal of Education, Language and Ideology. She is also the Director, Research Acceleration Center, the Director, Research and Development Cell and the Director, All-India English Language Testing Authority (AIELTA) at EFLU.
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Lina-Mukhopadhyay?ev=hdr_xprf
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9448-4920