Christopher J. Jenks

I am a scholar of language, communication, and culture. I currently work at Utrecht University in the Netherlands, though I have worked in a number of other regions, including the United States, England, Hong Kong, Denmark, and South Korea.

My research is broadly related to three areas of research: discourse analysis, world Englishes, and intercultural communication. Within these sometimes overlapping areas, I investigate issues ranging from translingualism to Asian Englishes. I am particularly interested in how spoken and written discourse performs a range of communicative actions (e.g., trolling and arguing) and indexes a number of social phenomena (e.g., nationalism and race). The contexts in which I conduct my research is exceptionally important to how I carve out my publications, and include online encounters, classroom learning, and lingua franca interactions.