Applied Linguistics in the Time of Global Asias

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This panel builds on recent developments in Global Asias scholarship (Chen 2021), prioritizing
the multidisciplinary study of Asianness in the context of its global flows and circulations,
alongside scholarly efforts to promote Global Asias inquiry and frameworks within applied
linguistics (e.g., Lee 2022). Such calls are responsive to the advent of what many critics have
dubbed the "Asian century," signalled by the growing presence of Asian influence on various
domains of social life worldwide. This panel, thus, explores the question of what it means to do
applied linguistics in the time of Global Asias. The panelists will speak on topics including 1) the
social semiotics of Global Asias toward the production of hybrid national identities, 2) US-Asia
transpacific teaching collaborations that dismantle historically uneven knowledge exchange
circuits, and 3) students’ use of multimodal compositions (e.g., VR and ePortfolios) to advocate
multilingual agency and multicultural competence.

Biodata

Jerry Won Lee is a Professor in the Department of English at the University of California, Irvine,
where he currently serves as Director of the International Center for Writing & Translation,
Director of the Program in Global Languages & Communication, and Co-Director of UCI Global
Asias. His recent book publications include Locating Translingualism (Cambridge University

Press 2022), The Sociolinguistics of Global Asias (Routledge 2022), Language as Hope, co-
authored with Daniel N. Silva (Cambridge University Press 2024). He is currently co-editing,

alongside Li Wei, Prem Phyak, and Ofelia García, the Handbook of Translanguaging (under
contract with Wiley-Blackwell) and, alongside Sofia Rüdiger, Entangled Englishes (under contract
with Routledge), which explores the globalization of English in relation to its multiple, complex,
and oftentimes unexpected entanglements.

Qian Du is an Associate Professor of Teaching and Associate Director in the Program in Global
Languages and Communication at the University of California, Irvine. Her research interests
include English for academic purposes, intercultural rhetoric, reading-writing connections, and
teacher education.

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Jung-Hsien Lin is an Assistant Director and Lecturer in the Program in Global Languages &
Communication at the University of California, Irvine. Her research investigates the affective
landscape of linguistic exile through the psychoanalytic concept of transference and how
multilingual speakers adopt writing as a form of individual praxis for freedom.