Plenary Speakers 2023

Colette Despagne is a Full Professor of (Critical) Applied Linguistics and Language Education at the Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities (ICSyH) at BUAP – Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (BUAP), in Puebla, Mexico. She is member of the Mexican National Research Council (Sistema Nacional de Investigación – CONACYT) and leads the research group called “Racism, Identities, and Modes of Subjectivity” at BUAP. Colette Despagne holds a master’s degree in Applied Linguistics from the Université du Maine in France and a PhD in Educational Linguistics from Western University in Canada. She is plurilingual and lives in Mexico for nearly 30 years. She has presented in many different countries and published in several languages in international journals in Europe, Canada, the United States, Colombia and Mexico. She has been recipient of the Edmundo O’Gorman fellowship on behalf of the Institute of Latin American Studies at Columbia University in New York City in 2018. Her latest research interests focus on plurilingualism in Latin America and on return migration from the United States to Mexico where she examines questions of language, power, and identity.