Luisa Martín Rojo is Professor of General Linguistics at the Autonomous University of Madrid, and visiting professor at the ARC Research Centre of CUNY and other European universities. Specialist in sociolinguistics and discourse analysis, she was co-founder and president of the Iberian Association for Discourse and Society Studies (EDiSo; 2012-2017). She is currently a chief investigator at the UAM Centre for Multilingualism, Discourse and Communication Research (MIRCo).

Her lines of research focus on multilingualism in education and other areas. The results were published in international and national journals, and gave rise to the volumes Constructing inequality in multilingual classrooms (Martín Rojo, 2010) and Voces del aula (Martín Rojo & Mijares 2007). This research on the social dimension of multilingualism recently focused on the Latin diaspora (Márquez Reiter & Martín Rojo, 2016), and on the effects of neoliberalism in the transformation of our understanding of languages ​​and their social value, Language and Neoliberal governmentality (Martín Rojo & Del Percio 2019).

In recent years she developed a line of research to study how protest movements transform urban spaces, set out in the book, Occupy: The spatial dynamics of discourse in global protest movements (Martín Rojo, 2016). She currently directs a coordinated research project in the call for challenges, Critical linguistic awareness and agency of speakers: action research for sociolinguistic equality (EquiLing) that addresses and seeks to transform situations of inequality mediated by sociolinguistic aspects. She is part of several editorial committees of indexed journals such as: Discourse & Society, Critical Discourse Studies, Discurso y Sociedad, Journal of Multicultural Discourses, Linguistic Landscapes and  Language, Culture and Society, among others. She belongs to the European Science Foundation College of Expert Reviewers and other assessment agencies.

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