Andy Kirkpatrick

Andy Kirkpatrick is Professor Emeritus at Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. He has taught in universities in Burma, Singapore, China and Australia. He has published several academic books over the years (see below) but in 2024 published his first non-academic book, The Friendship Store (Graham Earnshaw Books, Hong Kong). The Friendship Store is a memoir of his life in China in the mid-1970s where he lived as a postgraduate student of Chinese literature. He was there for what was a watershed period in contemporary Chinese history, including as it did the death of Chairman Mao and the ‘resurrection’ of Deng Xiaoping.

His academic books include Is English an Asian Language? (Cambridge University Press 2021), The Routledge Handbook of World Englishes (Routledge 2020, second edition, editor), The Routledge Handbook of Language Education Policy in Asia (Routledge 2019, co-editor with Anthony J Liddicoat), the Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of Asian Varieties of English (Wiley-Blackwell 2020, co-editor with Kingsley Bolton and Werner Botha), Chinese Rhetoric (Parlor Press 2012) (with Xu Zhichang), English as a Lingua Franca in ASEAN: a Multilingual Model (Hong Kong University Press 2010) and World Englishes: Implications for Intercultural Communication and Language Teaching (Cambridge University Press 2007).

He divides his time between Bern in Switzerland and Reigate in England.