Chanel Van Der Merwe

Chanel Van Der Merwe

Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
Chanel Van Der Merwe
lecturer in applied language studies
BIOGRAPHY:

Chanel van der Merwe is a lecturer in linguistics and applied linguistics at Nelson Mandela University, and a doctoral candidate at University of Cape Town. She is a recipient of the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship, and has also received funding from the National Research Foundation (South Africa), and National Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences (South Africa) for her postgraduate studies. Her research interests include the African university, language policy, multilingualism, feminist and southern epistemologies.