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Panayota Gounari is associate professor of applied linguistics at the University of Massachusetts Boston. She holds a Ph.D. in Language and Literacy Education/Cultural Studies in Education from Pennsylvania State University. She has earned a BA in classics with a concentration in historical and comparative linguistics from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, and an MA in Applied Linguistics from UMass Boston. Her research focus is on the role of language and discourse in education, in human agency and in social transformation, and the implications for critical pedagogy. She has co-authored "The Hegemony of English" (in 2003) and co-edited "The Globalization of Racism" (in 2005) with D. Macedo. Both books have been translated into many languages. More recently she has co-edited "Critical Pedagogy: A Reader" (in Greece with G. Grollios). She has published numerous articles and book chapters.