Melanie CookeMelanie Cooke is currently Lecturer in ESOL Education at King's College, London. Her books include Brokering Britain, Educating Citizens: exploring ESOL and Citizenship (2019, with Rob Peutrell), The Routledge Handbook of Language and Suerdiversity (2018, section editor with James Simpson) and ESOL: A Critical Guide (2008, with James Simpson). She has published in TESOL Quarterly, Language and Education, Linguistics and Education, Language Assessment Quarterly, Journal of Language, Identity and Education and Gender and Language. She was a co-organiser of the ESRC seminar series 'Queering ESOL' (with John Gray and Mike Baynham) and has collaborated with Dermot Bryers and Becky Winstanley on several participatory ESOL projects, the most recent being the Leverhulme funded 'Our Languages'. Read More Read Less