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MIC Related Research | Dr. Kamal Sridhar

 

Dr. Kamal K. Sridhar (Meena) received her MA in TESOL and Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.  She is recognized for her research on maintenance of languages and cultures among Asian Indian linguistic communities and on World Englishes. In addition to her book on English in Indian Bilingualism (New Delhi: Manohar, 1989), she has published 30+ articles in major journals and as invited chapters in Applied Linguistics, and teacher training textbooks. She is currently working on a book on language maintenance among the Thanjavur Marathi speakers, who have maintained their language for over 300+ years as migrants within and outside India. She has been invited to present her work on language maintenance among linguistic minorities from India all over the world, including Belgium, Colombia, Greece, Japan, Thailand, Hongkong, United Kingdom, China, and all over the USA, Canada, and India.

She was the co-founder of the Center for India Studies at Stony Brook with her husband and colleague Prof. S. N. Sridhar (1997). She has served the center in several capacities, as a volunteer, director and currently as the associate director.

From 1986 to 1997, Dr. Sridhar directed the undergraduate and graduate TESOL program and served as the Director of ESL at Stony Brook University. From 1989 to 1995, Dr. Sridhar served on the Editorial Board of TESOL Quarterly, a journal devoted to ESL teaching and research. Since 1997, and has been asked to review manuscripts for Language in Society (Cambridge University Press), and World Englishes (formerly Pergamon press, now Blackwell Wiley) since 1995.