Biography

Clara Keating (M.Phil, Cambridge, PhD, Lancaster), Associate Professor at the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, School of Arts and Humanities, University of Coimbra and Researcher at the CES (Research Group Europe and the Global South: heritages and dialogues). I develop critical sociolinguistics research in complex multilingual and linguistically diverse contexts resulting from mobilities and migrations. In the framework of the European alliance EC2U (www.EC2U.eu), I lead the UC team of the Virtual Institute on Quality Education on Language, Culture and Social Diversity in Europe, which includes the local coordination of the multilateral M.A. and the implementation of a space for research and development in the areas of linguistic, cultural and social diversity in Europe. In my courses and postgraduate supervisions, I articulate an explicit focus on language and multilingual practice, literacy and discourse with social, feminist, cultural and anthropological studies, namely the relationship between language, literacy, ideology and power.