The PALA Committee
- Chair (2010-12)
- Michael Burke, Head of the Academic Core Department and Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Stylistics, Roosevelt Academy, Middelburg (Utrecht University), the Netherlands. Home Page. Email m.burke at roac.nl
- Editor, Language and Literature
- Geoff Hall, Reader in Applied Linguistics, Swansea University. Home page. Email g.m.hall at swansea.ac.uk
- Secretary (2008-11)
- Rocio Montoro, Lecturer in English Language, University of Granada, Spain. Email rmontoro@ugr.es
- Treasurer (2010-13)
- Marina Lambrou is Principal Lecturer in English Language and Communication. Email M.Lambrou at kingston.ac.uk.
- Membership Secretary (2010-13)
- Nina Nørgaard is Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of Southern Denmark. Home page. Email noergaard at language.sdu.dk
- Student Membership Secretary (co-opted)
- Isabelle van der Bom is a graduate student in the School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics at the University of Sheffield. Email isabelle.vanderbom at gmail.com
- Newsletter Editor (2010-13)
- Beatrix Busse, Bern University, Switzerland. Email beatrix.busse at ens.unibe.ch
- Publicity Officer (2010-13)
- Andea Macrea is Lecturer in Stylistics at Oxford Brookes University. Email andrea.macrae at brookes.ac.uk
- Webmaster (co-opted)
- Martin Wynne is Head of the Oxford Text Archive at Oxford University. Please address any feedback about the website to him. Home Page. Email martin.wynne at oucs.ox.ac.uk.
- 2011 Conference Organiser (co-opted 2010-11)
- Sarala Krishnamurthy Dean of the School of Communication, Polytechnic of Namibia, (Windhoek). Conference home page (coming soon!). Email: skrishnamurthy at polytechnic.edu.na
The following are the past chairs of PALA (most recent first):
- Lesley Jeffries, Professor of English Language at Huddersfield University. Home page
- Isil Bas
- Willie van Peer
- Tony Bex
- Katie Wales
- Mick Short
- Ron Carter
- Vimala Herman
- Roger Fowler