Andy
AndyKirkpatrickisProfessorintheDepartmentofLanguagesandLinguisticsatGriffithUniversity,Brisbane,Australia.HehaslivedandworkedinmanycountriesinEastandSoutheastAsia,includingChina,HongKong,Malaysia,MyanmarandSingapore.HeistheauthorofEnglishasaLinguaFrancainASEAN:amultilingualmodel(HongKongUniversityPress).HeistheeditoroftheRoutledgeHandbookofWorldEnglishes.HismostrecentbooksareEnglishasanAsianLanguage:implicationsforlanguageeducation,co-editedwithRolySussexandpublishedbySpringer,andChineseRhetoricandWriting,co-authoredwithXuZhichangandpublishedbyParlorPress.HeisfoundingandchiefeditorofthejournalandbookseriesMultilingualEducation,publishedbySpringer,andhasrecentlybeenappointededitor-in-chiefoftheAsiaJournalofTEFL.HeisDirectoroftheAsianCorpusofEnglish(ACE)project.