PHYLLIS CHEW is Associate Professor at Nanyang Technological Univeristy, Singapore, where she has taught Literacy and Sociolinguistics for the last 25 years. An applied linguist, she has served on the international advisory boards of
Teaching Education,
Malaysian English Language Teaching Journal, the
International Journal of Language Studies,
Asian EFL Journal,
Asia Tefl Journal and
Gendering Asia. She was the 2010-2011 Fulbright Research Scholar at Harvard University, USA.