Dr. Kamal K. (Meena) Sridhar is Associate Professor of India Studies and Linguistics, and Director of Center for India Studies at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA. She received her Master's in TESOL and Doctorate in Applied Linguistics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She directed the English as a Second Language program at Stony Brook from 1987 to 1997.
Her research addresses issues in bilingualism, such as, language use in multilingual India, language maintenance and shift among Asian Indian communities in the US, bilingual code-switching and mixing, non-native varieties of English, and language issues in education. Her book, English in Indian Bilingualism was published by Manohar (Delhi) in 1989. She has served on Editorial Boards of several journals including TESOL Quarterly, Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, World Englishes, among others. Her articles have appeared in many scholarly journals and books. She has held fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), and the American Institute of Indian Studies (AIIS). She has lectured in India, Colombia, Thailand, Pakistan, Greece, Belgium, England, Netherlands, and all over the continental USA. She served as a consultant for the Indian English section of World Englishes Dictionary (1997-1999), published by Bloomsbury Press, London, and St. Martin's Press, NY; and Webster's Dictionary (published 2005).
She is currently writing a book on the migrant community of Tanjore Marathi speakers, who have maintained their language for over 350 years in Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu, and co-editing selected papers from the 24th international conference on South Asian Languages and Linguistics (SALA) held at Stony Brook in November 2004.
Her research addresses issues in bilingualism, such as, language use in multilingual India, language maintenance and shift among Asian Indian communities in the US, bilingual code-switching and mixing, non-native varieties of English, and language issues in education. Her book, English in Indian Bilingualism was published by Manohar (Delhi) in 1989. She has served on Editorial Boards of several journals including TESOL Quarterly, Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, World Englishes, among others. Her articles have appeared in many scholarly journals and books. She has held fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), and the American Institute of Indian Studies (AIIS). She has lectured in India, Colombia, Thailand, Pakistan, Greece, Belgium, England, Netherlands, and all over the continental USA. She served as a consultant for the Indian English section of World Englishes Dictionary (1997-1999), published by Bloomsbury Press, London, and St. Martin's Press, NY; and Webster's Dictionary (published 2005).
She is currently writing a book on the migrant community of Tanjore Marathi speakers, who have maintained their language for over 350 years in Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu, and co-editing selected papers from the 24th international conference on South Asian Languages and Linguistics (SALA) held at Stony Brook in November 2004.