Dr Cristina Ros i Solé

Cristina carries out research into embodied approaches to language learning and interculturality

Staff details

Position

Senior lecturer in Language, Culture and Learning

Department

Educational Studies

Email

cristina.ros (@gold.ac.uk)

Goldsmiths Research Centres/Groups

Centre for Language, Culture and Learning

Cristina Ros i Solé is a scholar in language education, intercultural studies and material cultures. Her research investigates the lived experience of multilingualism in today's transnational and global world and the challenges it presents for world-making, cultural identity, and belonging. Her work draws on post-humanism and new materialism theory, and uses ethnographic and post-qualitative methodologies.

Cristina has published widely in the areas of identity, the lived experience of multilingualism, and the student experience of globalisation in Higher Education. Her latest book 'Material Interculturality: making sense with everyday objects' (Routledge, 2024) looks at world-making with ordinary cultural artefacts. She is currently working on her latest edited book: 'Home-making and belonging in the internationalised campus' (with Bojana Petric and Prue Holmes).

She is Chair of the International Association of Languages and Intercultural Communication.

Academic qualifications

PhD in Educational Linguistics (King's College London)
MSc in Applied Linguistics (University of Edinburgh)
MA in English Philology (University of Barcelona)

Teaching and supervision

Busra Akun. The Negotiation of multilingual repertoires from Turkish-speaking children in the UK.
Lydia Petrova. The unique experience of late foreign language learners of English with Bulgarian native language background
Maria Cristina Zaror. Childrens’ literacy in pre-school years.
Joaquim Oppenheim. Learning a “difficult” language. A study of high-level, long-term language learners.
Hasan Mohammad- An Investigation into the Relationship between Teachers' Beliefs and the Use of a Set Course Book when Teaching Vocabulary in PAAET’s College of Basic Education in Kuwait

MA Education Culture Language and Identity
BA Education Culture and Society

Research interests

Cristina's research looks at how languages and cultures are entangled with memory, feeling, history and place so that living multilingualism is seen as both a personal and a political experience.

Cristina's work is interdisciplinary and draws on a variety of disciplines such as Sociolinguistics, Anthropology, Film Studies and Material Culture. She is currently involved in two research collaborative projects:

(1) Home-making and Belonging in the Internationalised Campus. This project seeks to shift current market-driven and non-inclusive perspectives on the internationalisation of Higher Education (HE) by placing students' linguistic and intercultural encounters and their 'home-making' practices at the centre of their campus experience. It investigates students' intercultural sense of 'home' by juxtaposing feelings of being 'out of place' alongside processes of 'evoking home'.

(2) University Uniforms. This project looks at disruptive and materially-constructed understandings of global cultures and their transformation into individual identities and becomings.

Cristina has given numerous talks and is a regular reviewer for book series and Journals in Higher Education (e.g. London Review of Education), Applied Linguistics, Intercultural Communication and Language Education. She is on the Editorial Board of the Languages and Intercultural Communication Journal, Affiliated member of the International Centre for Intercultural Studies, and member of the Advisory Board of the Centre for Language, Culture and Learning, Goldsmiths.

Featured publications

2016: The Personal World of the Language Learner (Palgrave Macmillan)
Book

2020: Vibrant identities and finding joy in difference
Special Issue 'Vibrant identities: life, materiality and the posthuman' in Language and Intercultural Communication Journal

2020: Lived languages: ordinary collections and multilingual repertoires
Journal Article (International Journal of Multilingualism)

Liberating Language Education
(2022) Edited volume with V. Lytra, Jim Anderson and Vicky Macleroy. Multilingual Matters

1. Ros i Solé, C. (2022). The textures of language: An auto-ethnography of a gloves collection. In Lytra et al.
Chapter

Publications and research outputs

Book

Material Interculturality: making sense with everyday objects Ros i Sole, Cristina. 2024. Material Interculturality: making sense with everyday objects. New York: Routledge. ISBN 9781003049913
The Personal World of the Language Learner Ros i Sole, Cristina. 2016. The Personal World of the Language Learner. London: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9781137528520

Edited Book

Liberating Language Education Lytra, Vally; Ros i Sole, Cristina; Anderson, Jim and Macleroy, Vicky, eds. 2022. Liberating Language Education. Bristol: Multilingual Matters. ISBN 9781788927932

Edited Journal

Belonging and Homemaking in the Internationalised Campus Petric, Bojana; Ros i Sole, Cristina and Holmes, Prue, eds. 2023. Belonging and Homemaking in the Internationalised Campus, London Review of Education, . 1474-8479

Book Section

Introduction: Why Liberating Language Education? Lytra, Vally; Ros i Sole, Cristina; Anderson, Jim and Macleroy, Vicky. 2022. Introduction: Why Liberating Language Education? In: Vally Lytra; Cristina Ros i Sole; Jim Anderson and Vicky Macleroy, eds. Liberating Language Education. Bristol: Multilingual Matters, pp. 1-20. ISBN 9781788927932
'Conclusion: Language Education Collages' Lytra, Vally; Ros i Sole, Cristina; Anderson, Jim and Macleroy, Vicky. 2022. 'Conclusion: Language Education Collages'. In: Vally Lytra; Cristina Ros i Sole; Jim Anderson and Vicky Macleroy, eds. Liberating Language Education. Bristol: Multilingual Matters, pp. 321-330. ISBN 9781788927932
The Textures of Language: An auto-ethnography of a gloves collection Ros i Sole, Cristina. 2022. The Textures of Language: An auto-ethnography of a gloves collection. In: Vally Lytra; Cristina Ros i Sole; Jim Anderson and Vicky Macleroy, eds. Liberating Language Education. Bristol: Multilingual Matters. ISBN 9781788927932

Article

Film-making as creative praxis: capturing the intimate side of interculturality Rifeser, Judith and Ros i Sole, Cristina. 2022. Film-making as creative praxis: capturing the intimate side of interculturality. Language and Intercultural Communication, 22(2), pp. 221-234. ISSN 1470-8477
Lived languages: ordinary collections and multilingual repertoires Ros i Sole, Cristina. 2022. Lived languages: ordinary collections and multilingual repertoires. International Journal of Multilingualism, 19(4), pp. 647-663. ISSN 1479-0718
Vibrant identities: finding joy in difference Ros i Sole, Cristina; Fenoulhet, Jane and Quist, Gerdi. 2020. Vibrant identities: finding joy in difference. Language and Intercultural Communication, 20(5), ISSN 1470-8477

Professional projects

HEFCE funded -Languages of the Wider World Seminar Series- UCL/SOAS Centre for Excellence in Languages of the Wider World (2010-2015). Principal Research Fellow.

AHRC-funded 'Language Acts and World-making Debates. King's College London (2017-2018) Convenor

Conferences and talks

2021: Vivencias and lifeworlds in the Spanish classroom. See a description of this talk in the blog of the CLCL at Goldsmiths.
Invited Talk at Princeton University (USA). Department of Spanish and Portuguese. Doctoral Programme.

2021: Styling the self: the force of ‘language objects’
AILA World Congress: Ways of ‘becoming’: Exploring new materialist perspectives in Educational Research Symposium

2018: Vibrant rags and languagers' wardrobes
Symposium/Talk at Language Acts and Worldmaking Conference. University of Westminster.

2024: ‘Heels over Head’ methodologies: descending from our brains to our bodies
CLIER research conference

Other Publications

Rifeser, J. and Ros i Solé, C. (2022). Film-making as creative praxis: capturing the intimate side of interculturality. Journal of Language and Intercultural Communication.

Ros i Solé, C. (2018). Re-visiting the unhomely through languaging. Language and Intercultural Communication 19 (1), pp. 38-50. ISSN 1470-8477. https://doi.org/10.1080/14708477.2018.1545026

Ros i Solé, C. (2014). Language Learning and Integration in the European Context Language Issues 24 (2) pp. 4-18.

Ros i Solé, C. (2013). The Cosmopolitan Language Learner: perspectives from Lesser Taught Languages. In M. Byram and P. Holmes ‘Teaching and learning intercultural communication in the second/foreign language classroom’. The Language Learning Journal, 41:3.