Angel M. Y. Lin is Professor of English Language and Literacy Education at the Simon Fraser University, Canada.
She received her Ph.D. in 1996 from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, Canada. Since then her research and teaching has focused on classroom discourse analysis, bilingual and multilingual education, academic literacies and language policy and planning in postcolonial contexts.
She has published six research books and over ninety research articles, and serves on the editorial boards of leading international research journals including Applied Linguistics, TESOL Quarterly, International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, Language and Education, and Pragmatics and Society.