Inviolata Vicky Khasandi-Telewa is an associate professor of English language teaching and applied linguistics in Laikipia University, Kenya. She is currently a Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for African Studies and African American Studies Department in Penn State. She attained her doctoral degree in applied linguistics and English kanguage teaching, from the University of Warwick, United Kingdom. She has been teaching in Laikipia University since 1997 and has just completed her term as the dean of the School of Humanities and Development Studies and acting deputy vice chancellor Academics, Research and Student Affairs. Her research interests are in applied linguistics in African contexts particularly language-in-education policies, discourses of gender, religion, politics and governance, refugees, and ecolinguistics. She is the editor of CORETRAIN journal. Some of her publications include: Khasandi-Telewa, Vicky, Sinfree Makoni and David Bade (2022) Proverbial Futures: Proverbs and Political Discourse in Africa. ‘Everyone was happy when talking’: Revisiting the use of mother tongues in Kenyan Universities. In S. Makoni, et al. Routledge (2023) “An ecolinguistic positive discourse analysis of ‘Mwambu and Sella’, a Bukusu oral narrative from Western Kenya.” Language & Ecology.

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