PALA Ambassadors
Are you interested in making contact with other PALA members in your country or region? Can you help to spread the word about the benefits of PALA membership to your colleagues and postgraduate students? Would you like to organize or attend local PALA events? If so, consider becoming a PALA Ambassador. The aim of the PALA Ambassadors scheme is to encourage communication and interaction between PALA members on a local and/or regional level. There are many ways in which Ambassadors can facilitate the development of local PALA networks, from simply serving as a first contact point for news and events of PALA interest within a particular region, to organizing small-scale events (symposia, conferences, or purely social get-togethers). PALA student members are especially welcome to get involved. Interested PALA members should contact the publicity officer, Andrea Macrae.
The recently-launched PALA ambassadors scheme has already established the following network:
| Region | Name | Email Address |
|---|---|---|
| Australia | Dwi Noverini Djenar | novi.djenar@sydney.edu.au |
| China | Zhao Kuiying | sszhaoky@yahoo.com.cn |
| China (Hong Kong) | Marjorie Ka-Yee Cheung & Peter Crisp | marjorie.cheung@sheffield.ac.uk; pcrisp@e.cuhk.edu.hk |
| Denmark | Nina Nørgaard | noergaard@language.sdu.dk |
| Egypt | Wesam Ibrahim | weselmasry@yahoo.com |
| France | Manuel Jobert | manuel.jobert@wanadoo.fr |
| Germany and Switzerland | Beatrix Busse | beatrix.busse@ens.unibe.ch |
| Iraq | Mohammed Jasim Betti | al_seady@yahoo.com |
| Italy | John Douthwaite | j.douthw@virgilio.it; j.douthw@gmail.com |
| Latin America | Olivia Fialho | ofialho@ualberta.ca |
| Malaysia | Mazura Muhammad | mazuramastura@yahoo.com |
| Namibia | Sarala Krishnamurthy | skrishnamurthy@polytechnic.edu.na |
| Netherlands | Suzanne Fagel and Maarten van Leeuwen | s.v.fagel@hum.leidenuniv.nl; m.van.leeuwen@hum.leidenuniv.nl |
| Portugal | Alcina Sousa | ninita@netmadeira.com |
| Scotland | Agnes Marsalek | a.marszalek.1@research.gla.ac.uk |
| Slovenia | Simon Zupan & Tomaž Onič | simon.zupan@uni-mb.si; tomaz.onic@uni-mb.si |
| Spain | Coral Calvo Maturana | coralcm@ugr.es |
| Sweden | Ulf Cronquist | ulf.cronquist@spray.se |
| UK (Midlands) | Emma Moreton | Emma.Moreton@coventry.ac.uk |
| UK (Yorkshire) | Marjorie Ka-Yee Cheung | marjorie.cheung@sheffield.ac.uk |
| USA (Eastern) | Jennifer Harding | jharding@washjeff.edu |
| USA (Western) | Chantelle Warner | warnerc@email.arizona.edu |
| Venezuela | Elida León | elidaleon@yahoo.com |