Arlene Archer

Arlene Archer has a PhD in Applied Linguistics and is the director of the Writing Centre at the University of Cape Town. She teaches on postgraduate courses and supervises research students. She is the convener of the South African Multimodality in Education research group (see https://samultimodality.wordpress.com/). Her research employs a multimodal social semiotic perspective to re-look at key concepts of an ‘academic literacies’ approach to teaching and research to enable student access to Higher Education. She has recently co-edited four books on multimodality and writing, and has been awarded a British Academy Fellowship to investigate the changing nature and forms of writing in a digital age.