Sivakumar Sivasubramaniam is currently Extraordinary Professor and Immediate past Head of Language Education in the Faculty of Education at the University of the Western Cape, Republic of South Africa (RSA). He is also a National Research Foundation (NRF) rated Researcher in RSA. Dr. Sivakumar Sivasubramaniam serves the Editorial Board of the Journal of English as an International Language (EILJ) as Chief Editor. He is an Executive Committee Member of English Scholars Beyond Borders (ESBB), a voluntary organization that is committed to promoting locally relevant practices and pedagogies aimed at democratizing and dehegemonizing the teaching of English and researching into it across cultures and continents. He has been a foreign language/ second language educator for thirty-five plus years now and has taught English in India, Ethiopia, Thailand, Bahrain, Armenia, and U.A.E prior to relocating to the Western Cape. He has presented papers, conducted workshops and delivered plenaries at prestigious conference forums abroad.

Apart from his professional academic career, Sivakumar Sivasubramaniam is an esteemed advisor to the Academics Education Inc journal group

Research Interest

His research interests include response-centred reading/writing pedagogies, literature-based language pedagogies, constructivism in EIL, second language advocacy, narratives in language education and text-based approaches to academic and social literacy practices. His epistemic stance is directed at formulating and fostering narratives of voice, agency and inter subjectivity that are crucial to research into language teacher and literacy education. He has supervised a number of Masters and PhD students in addition to co-authoring scholarly publications with them.