Penelope Gardner-Chloros

Penelope Gardner-Chloros is Professor Emerita of Sociolinguistics and Language Contact at Birkbeck, University of London. Her research focuses on bilingualism, code-switching, language contact, minority languages, immigrant communities, and the sociolinguistics of French and Greek. Before entering academia, she worked as a conference interpreter for the European Union and the Council of Europe.

She is the author of Bilingualism and Code-switching (Cambridge University Press, 2009), and previously published Language Selection and Switching in Strasbourg (1991). She has also published extensively on code-switching, language contact, and terms of address, including more than 60 articles and book chapters.