Professional Bio

Simon Bauer is a PhD candidate in Multilingualism at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. His research interests revolve around questions of power, resistance, and the discursive construction of Self-Other, drawing theoretically and methodologically on critical discourse analysis and discourse ethnography. He has a background in Sociology as well as Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies and is currently writing up his Doctoral Dissertation on the Swedish state provided course “Civic Orientation for Newly Arrived Migrants”. In the Dissertation he critically analyses the discursive construction of for example nationalism, Self-Other, and gender on multiple levels combining qualitative and quantitative approaches. His work has appeared in journals such as Critical Discourse Studies, Citizenship Studies, Social Inclusion, and the Nordic Journal of Migration Research, and he has presented widely at international Linguistics, Migration, and Education conferences.