Suresh Canagarajah is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor and Director of the Migration Studies Project, Departments of Applied Linguistics and English, Pennsylvania State University, USA. Having a BA with a major in English from the University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, and a PhD in Applied Linguistics from the University of Texas at Austin, USA, Professor Canagarajah's personal history and lived experiences attest to his outstanding achievements. In his pioneering work, Resisting Linguistic Imperialism in English Teaching (Oxford University Press, 1999) and Translingual Practice: Global Englishes and Cosmopolitan Relations (Routledge, 2013), he has introduced a new way of looking at the use of English within a global context. Such work has exerted a great impact in the field of English language teaching or applied linguistics at large.

Suresh Canagarajah 是美国宾夕法尼亚州立大学应用语言学和英语系的 Edwin Erle Sparks 教授和移民研究项目主任。Canagarajah 教授拥有斯里兰卡凯拉尼亚大学英语专业学士学位和美国德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校应用语言学博士学位，其个人经历和生活经历证明了他的杰出成就。在他的开创性著作《抵制英语教学中的语言帝国主义》（牛津大学出版社，1999 年）和《跨语言实践：全球英语和世界性关系》（Routledge，2013 年）中，他介绍了一种在全球范围内看待英语使用的新方法. 这些工作在英语教学或应用语言学领域产生了很大的影响。