My research interests include language ideologies, language and politics, language and power, language and identity, language in (social) media, and sociocultural approaches to second language acquisition. I am the author of Modeling metalinguistic discourses and language ideologies (Routledge, 2025b) and Language and ethnonationalism in contemporary West Central Balkans: A corpus-based approach (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021), and co-editor of Current approaches to language ideology and metalinguistic discourse (Routledge, 2026). I have also published journal articles, book chapters, and book reviews in leading international outlets, as well as presented papers at major international conferences. My experience spans public and private universities in Europe, United States, and the Middle East. I have served as an interpreter and translator for the United Nations, in the Netherlands, and US Army, in Bosnia and Herzegovina. I speak Bosnian, English, and German.
What I do
(Critical) Applied linguistics
(Critical) Sociolinguistics
Corpus linguistics
Critical discourse analysis
My appointments
American University of Sharjah
Sharjah, United Arab Emirates (2022 – present)
Associate professor of English
American University of Sharjah
Sharjah, United Arab Emirates (2016 – 2022)
Assistant professor of English
International Burch University
Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina (2015 – 2016)
Assistant professor of English
Northern Arizona University
Flagstaff, AZ, United States (2010 – 2015)
Graduate teaching assistant
Syracuse University
Syracuse, NY, United States (2007 – 2009)
Graduate teaching assistant
United Nations’ International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
The Hague, the Netherlands (2000 – 2004)
Language assistant
BDM/TRW (US Army)
Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina (1996 – 2000)
Linguist
Adnan Ajšić, PhD 