I’m delighted to share that my book, co-authored with Heng Wang, Heritage Literacy in the Lives of Chinese Muslims, will be published by Bloomsbury in April 2026 (see here). The book grows out of sustained ethnographic fieldwork across China, and from a developing programme of research on language, […]
I am delighted to announce the publication of my new article, co-authored with Zhen Li [李蓁], titled “Towards Understanding Heritage Literacy” (see link). This research provides a fresh perspective on the intersection of heritage and linguistics, introducing and defining the concept of heritage literacy through an ethnographic study […]
Last month I visited two universities in Doha, Qatar: Hamad Bin Khalifa University and Qatar University. At Hamad Bin Khalifa, I gave a talk on a linguistic concept I am currently developing, which expands on the concept of heritage literacy that I have been writing about. The talk, […]
Below is the link to the full recording of our presentation at the Manchester China Institute. Just before the event, we formally donated Sino-Muslim artwork to the Institute and arranged for two pieces to be exhibited on loan at the Manchester Museum nearby. These artworks, paper cuts by […]
Earlier this year I undertook an extended research visit to China and conducted some lectures for both Jilin University, fruitfully following on from last year’s stint with them, and Changchun University of Science & Technology. Both sets of talks were well attended and allowed me to continue themes […]
I am pleased to announce that Lesley Gourlay and I have decided to work with Petar Jandrić (Chief Editor of PDSE) to compile a special issue of the journal on ‘Postdigital / More-Than-Digital Meaning-Making’. The study of how meaning is made is distributed across various subfields, including applied […]
I am pleased to announce that I have won a Leverhulme Research Fellowship for a project which focuses on what has been an area of interest of mine for the last few years. The project is entitled ‘Literacy and Harmony: A study of Sino-Muslim heritage literacies in modern […]
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