Vaidehi Ramanathan

Vaidehi Ramanathan is Professor of Applied Sociolinguistics in the Linguistics Department at UC, Davis. Her research interests include all topics related to language policies, literacies, and language and health (including disabilities). She has recently been connecting issues of citizenship, migrations, immigrants and refugees to concerns around how they get 'languaged" in various aspects of our planetary cultures and how issues regarding them get codified in policies. Her publications in this area include Language policies and (Dis)Citizenship: rights, access, pedagogies (Ed. 2013, Multilingual Matters); Language, immigration and naturalization: Legal and linguistic issues (Ed. with A. Loring, 2015, Multilingual Matters) and Refugee resettlement in the United States (Ed. with E. Fuerherm, 2015, Multilingual Matters). Her other publications include Language, memory and remembering (2019, Routledge), Language and the body: health, ailments and disabilities (2009, Multilingual Matters), and The English-Vernacular Divide: Postcolonial language politics and practice (2005, Multilingual Matters).