Plenary Speakers

Plenary Speaker's Biographies

	Steve Fuller is Professor of Sociology at the University of Warwick, UK. He is the founder of the research programme of social epistemology. His most recent books are The Governance of Science: Ideology and the Future of the Open Society (Open University Press, 2000), Thomas Kuhn: A Philosophical History for Our Times (University of Chicago Press, 2000), and Knowledge Management Foundations (Butterworth-Heinemann, 2001). Website: http://www.warwick.ac.uk/~sysdt/Index.html
	Roz Ivanic teaches applied linguistics in the Department of Linguistics and Modern English Language at Lancaster University, is an active member of the Literacy Research Group and the Research and Practice in Adult Literacy Group, and is co-editor of Writing in the Community (Sage). She co-authored The Politics of Writing (1997) with Romy Clark, and is the author of Writing and identity: the discoursal construction of identity in academic writing (1998). Website: http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/staff/roz/roz2.htm
	Claire Kramsch is Professor of German and Foreign Language Education at the University of California at Berkeley and Director of the Berkeley Language Center. She is past president of the American Association for Applied Linguistics and co-editor of the journal Applied Linguistics. She has published widely on language, discourse, and culture in second language acquisition. Website: http://www.uga.berkeley.edu/sled/dta00/kramsch.html
	Bruno Latour is professor at the Centre de sociologie de l'Innovation at the Ecole nationale superieure des mines in Paris and visiting professor at the London School of Economics. His most recent publications include Pandora's Hope. Essays on the Reality of Science Studies (1999), and Dire le droit. Une ethnographie du Conseil d'Etat (2000). Website: http://www.ensmp.fr/~latour/
	Gregory Lee is Professor of Chinese at Jean Moulin University, Lyon III. His research interests are in literature, popular and marginal culture, postcolonialism, critical theory and Chineseness and the diasporic memory. His most recent book is Chinas Unlimited: Making the Imaginaries of China and Chineseness (2001). Website: http://www.gregorylee.net
	Paul Prior teaches in the English Department at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. His research interests are in composition theory and pedagogy; literacy; writing across the curriculum; qualitative research. He is the author of Writing/Disciplinarity: A Sociohistoric Account of Literate Activity in the Academy (1998). Website: http://www.english.uiuc.edu/facpages/Prior.htm
	Srikant Sarangi is Professor of Language and Communication and Director of Health Communication Research Centre at Cardiff University. His research interests include discourse analysis and applied linguistics; language and identity in public life; institutional and professional discourse, genetics counseling and general practice; intercultural pragmatics; racism and ethnicity in multicultural societies. He is currently editor of TEXT and his major publications include Language, Bureaucracy and Social Control; Talk, Work and Institutional Order: Discourse in Medical, Mediation and Management Settings; Discourse and Social Life; and Sociolinguistics and Social Theory. Website: http://www.cf.ac.uk/encap/staff/sarangi.html
	Beverly Skeggs is Professor of Sociology at the University of Manchester, U.K. She is interested in systems of classification such as class, gender and sexuality and how they come to particular meanings at certain historical moments. She is also interested in how some identities can be mobilised politically whilst others cannot and in debates about identity and recognition politics. Her background is an amalgam of sociology, feminist theory and cultural studies. Power and representations are usually central interests. Recent and forthcoming publications include Formations of Class and Gender: Becoming Respectable. London: Sage. 1997; The appearance of class: challenges in gay space, in S R Munt (ed), Cultural Studies and the Working Class: Subject to Change. London: Cassell. 2000; The Toilet Paper: Femininity, Class and Mis-Recognition, Women's Studies International Forum, Vol.24, No. 3/4. 2001, and Classing the self: morality, property, resource. London: Routledge (forthcoming). Website: http://les1.man.ac.uk/sociology/Staff/BSkeggs.htm