Dr Anil Biltoo was awarded a doctorate, in 2004, from the Department of Language and Linguistic Science, University of York, United Kingdom. His research interests include the study of language maintenance and language shift amongst diasporic groups
...MoreDr Anil Biltoo was awarded a doctorate, in 2004, from the Department of Language and Linguistic Science, University of York, United Kingdom. His research interests include the study of language maintenance and language shift amongst diasporic groups, and the consequences of the globalization of English. He has given numerous conference papers in the United Kingdom, Mauritius and India and is currently engaged in the production of a work on the development of linguistic knowledge in the Enlightenment period. Since August 2002, he has been teaching at Liverpool Hope University, United Kingdom, where he was recruited to help develop a new subject area at undergraduate level(English Language) and is now in the process of developing new courses at postgraduate level (MA Humanities; MA Cultures & Identities). Dr Biltoo is a staunch advocate of interdisciplinarity within academic environments and strives, in his published work and in his teaching, to advocate the importance of studying linguistics in its wider sociocultural context.
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New Directions in the Humanities
