Jo Angouri

Jo Angouri is currently the Deputy Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Education and Internationalisation at the University of Warwick and she serves on the Education Executive. She works in close partnership with academic departments, Warwick’s International Students’ Office, Student mobility and the Students’ Union. Angouri leads on the Internationalisation of Education Strategy and the development of existing and new mobility schemes with strategic partners and on the intercultural experience on- and off-campus. She is a National Teaching Fellow and fully committed to pedagogic innovation and education for global citizenship. She has been appointed as the International Subject Chair for Linguistics, Language, Communication and Media on the Scopus board.

Jo Angouri has always been fascinated by language and how we use language to ‘do things’. She started her journey as a theoretical linguist interested primarily in syntax. Early in her career as an undergraduate student, however, she had the good fortune to read anthropology and philosophy. Both played an important role in her thinking in different ways. Angouri turned to sociolinguistics and pragmatics. She received her PhD from the University of Essex and upon graduation she moved to Bristol for her first full time job with UWE’s Bristol Centre for Linguistics. She spent five rewarding years in Bristol before joining the University of Warwick and the Centre for Applied Linguistics. She has been a visiting scholar in different institutions in New Zealand, Australia and Europe. She is a Visiting Distinguished Professor at Aalto University, School of Business, Finland and a Visiting Professor (Affiliate) at Monash University, Australia. She is the founding editor of the Multilingual Matters’ Language at Work series, and she is also co-editing Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture for John Benjamins.