Tim McNamara

TIM MCNAMARA is Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the School of Languages and Linguistics at the University of Melbourne. He is an international expert on language testing, including the use of language tests in immigration, citizenship and asylum contexts. His work on language and identity has focused on the impact of poststructuralist approaches to subjectivity. Tim is the author of Language Testing (OUP, 2000) and co-author (with Carsten Roever) of Language Testing: The Social Dimension (Blackwell, 2006); two new books, Fairness and Justice in Language Assessment (OUP, with Ute Knoch and Jason Fan) and Language and Subjectivity (CUP), are due out early in 2019. He is the immediate Past President of the American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) and was Conference Chair for the 2017 conference in Portland, OR. Tim is a Fellow of the Academy of the Humanities of Australia and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (UK).

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