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Books:
Setter, J., Dovchin, S., & Ramjattan, V.A. (Eds.). (2025). The Oxford handbook of language and prejudice. Oxford University Press. [Link]
Ramjattan, V.A. (2025). Workable accents: How international teaching assistants vocally fashion and contest academic labor. Bloomsbury Academic. [Link]
Journal Articles:
Ramjattan, VA. (2025). Accented epidermal thinking: How vocal accent reinforces the visibility of race. International Journal of Applied Linguistics. Advance online publication. [Link]
Ramjattan, V.A. (2024). Imagining an anti-racist pronunciation pedagogy. ELT Journal, 78(3), 318-325. [Link]
Ramjattan, V.A. (2024). Accent modification and workplace accentism: The institutionalization of linguistic profiling and its career implications. Career Development International, 29(3), 311-322. [Link]
Ramjattan, V.A. (2023). International students and their raciolinguistic sensemaking of aural employability in Canadian universities. International Journal of the Sociology of Language, 282, 159-180. [Link]
Ramjattan, V.A. (2023). The accent work of international teaching assistants. TESOL Quarterly, 57(4), 1256-1281. [Link]
Ramjattan, V.A. (2023). Engineered accents: International teaching assistants and their microaggression learning in engineering departments. Teaching in Higher Education, 28(6), 1119-1134. [Link]
Ramjattan, V.A. (2022). Accenting racism in labour migration. Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, 42, 87-92. [Link]
Ramjattan, V.A. (2022). Racializing the problem of and solution to foreign accent in business. Applied Linguistics Review, 13(4), 527-544. [Link]
Ramjattan, V.A. (2021). The transracial aesthetic labour of an international teaching assistant. Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, 40(8), 973- 985. [Link]
Ramjattan, V.A. (2019). Raciolinguistics and the aesthetic labourer. Journal of Industrial Relations, 61(5), 726-738. [Link]
Ramjattan, V.A. (2019). The white native speaker and inequality regimes in the private English language school. Intercultural Education, 30(2), 126-140. [Link]
Ramjattan, V.A. (2019). Racist nativist microaggressions and the professional resistance of racialized English language teachers in Toronto. Race Ethnicity and Education, 22(3), 374-390. [Link]
Ramjattan, V.A. (2015). Lacking the right aesthetic: Everyday employment discrimination in Toronto private language schools. Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, 34(8), 692-704. [Link]
Book Chapters:
Ramjattan, V.A. (Forthcoming). Raciolinguistic tasks. In N. Wilmot & C. Gaibrois (Eds.), The Routledge companion to cross-cultural management (2nd ed.) (pp. xx-xx). Routledge.
Ramjattan, V.A. (Forthcoming). Micro-aggressions linguistiques en éducation. In S. Melo-Pfeifer & C. Ollivier (Eds.), Encyclopaedia of plurilingual education (pp. xx-xx). Peter Lang.
Ramjattan, V.A. (2025). Twitter as an online counterpedagogy to linguistic prejudice. In J. Setter, S. Dovchin, & V.A. Ramjattan (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of language and prejudice (pp. 681-695). Oxford University Press.
Setter, J., Dovchin, S., & Ramjattan, V.A. (2025). Introduction: Rearticulating prejudice in relation to language. In J. Setter, S. Dovchin, & V.A. Ramjattan (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of language and prejudice (pp. xxvii-xlii). Oxford University Press.
Ramjattan, V.A. (2024). The raciolinguistic enregisterment and aestheticization of ELT labour. In S. Melo-Pfeifer & V. Tavares, Language teacher identity: Confronting ideologies of language, race, and ethnicity (pp. 226-240). Wiley-Blackwell.
Ramjattan, V.A. (2024). International students and language: From individual 'deficiency' to instrument of oppression. In J. Mittelmeier, S. Lomer, & K. Unkule (Eds.), Research with international students: Critical conceptual and methodological considerations (pp. 174-182). Routledge. [Link]
Ramjattan, V.A. (2023). Accent reduction as raciolinguistic pedagogy. In P. Rangan, A. Saxena, R.T. Srinivasan, & P. Sundar (Eds.), Thinking with an accent (pp. 37-53). University of California Press. [Link]
Papers in Conference Proceedings:
Ramjattan, V. (2025). Hearing the professional voice: A raciolinguistic perspective. Proceedings of the 2025 CASAE/ACÉÉA Annual Conference, 447-453. [Link]
Ramjattan, V. (2022). From the linguistically deficient to the linguistically oppressed international student. Proceedings of the SRHE International Conference. [Link]
Ramjattan, V. (2022). The linguistic racism of accent training. Proceedings of the 12th Researching Work & Learning Conference, 201-207. [Link]
Ramjattan, V. (2020). Defining a “neutral” accent for the global economy. Proceedings of Adult Education in Global Times: An International Research Conference, 576-581. [Link]
Ramjattan, V. (2017). The production of linguistic ignorance in Canadian accent reduction programs. Proceedings of the 2017 CASAE/ACÉÉA Annual Conference, 236-240. [Link]
Commentaries and Reviews:
Ramjattan, V.A. (2022). The “foreign TA problem” as a demand for aesthetic labour. Modern Language Journal, 106(2), 486-489. [Link]
Ramjattan, V.A. (2020, October 27). [Review of the book Raciolinguistics: How language shapes our ideas about race, by H.S Alim, J.R. Rickford, and A.F. Ball, eds.]. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, 31(2), 308-310. [Link]
Popular Publications:
Ramjattan, V.A. (2024). Disciplinary guide: Language studies. [Link]
Greenberg, S., Pfeifer, M., Ramjattan, V., Rangan, P., Srinivasan, R.T., & Sundar, P. (2023, November 6). Thinking with “thinking with an accent”: A roundtable conversation [Blog post]. CaMP Anthropology. [Link]
Gerald, J.P.B., Ramjattan, V.A., & Stillar, S. (2022, February). After whiteness III. Language Magazine, 28-31. [Link]
Gerald, J.P.B., Ramjattan, V.A., & Stillar, S. (2021, August). After whiteness, part 2. Language Magazine, 28-31. [Link]
Gerald, J.P.B., Ramjattan, V.A., & Stillar, S. (2021, April). After whiteness: A vision of a possible future for English language teaching, part 1. Language Magazine, 19-23. [Link]
Ramjattan, V.A. (2021, January 12). How international teaching assistants learn to sound like engineers [Blog post]. [Link]
Ramjattan, V. (2019, January 13). Does my voice whiten me or not? A reflection on the instability of race and accent [Blog post]. [Link]
Ramjattan, V. (2018, May). Race and employability in private language schools. Contact, 19-23. [Link]
Ramjattan, V. (2017, September 20). Not having the right/white qualifications for English language teaching [Blog post]. [Link]
Nardozi, A., Lee, C., Delaney, L., Bickford, R., Moynagh, S., & Ramjattan, V. (2014). Liberating the spirit through education transformed: The teacup memorial for Roxana Chu-Yee Ng. Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society, 3(2), 167-175. [Link]
Technical Writing:
Ramjattan, V. (2024, June 24). Building vocabulary for reading and speaking. University of Guelph, McLaughlin Library. [Link]
Books:
Setter, J., Dovchin, S., & Ramjattan, V.A. (Eds.). (2025). The Oxford handbook of language and prejudice. Oxford University Press. [Link]
Ramjattan, V.A. (2025). Workable accents: How international teaching assistants vocally fashion and contest academic labor. Bloomsbury Academic. [Link]
Journal Articles:
Ramjattan, VA. (2025). Accented epidermal thinking: How vocal accent reinforces the visibility of race. International Journal of Applied Linguistics. Advance online publication. [Link]
Ramjattan, V.A. (2024). Imagining an anti-racist pronunciation pedagogy. ELT Journal, 78(3), 318-325. [Link]
Ramjattan, V.A. (2024). Accent modification and workplace accentism: The institutionalization of linguistic profiling and its career implications. Career Development International, 29(3), 311-322. [Link]
Ramjattan, V.A. (2023). International students and their raciolinguistic sensemaking of aural employability in Canadian universities. International Journal of the Sociology of Language, 282, 159-180. [Link]
Ramjattan, V.A. (2023). The accent work of international teaching assistants. TESOL Quarterly, 57(4), 1256-1281. [Link]
Ramjattan, V.A. (2023). Engineered accents: International teaching assistants and their microaggression learning in engineering departments. Teaching in Higher Education, 28(6), 1119-1134. [Link]
Ramjattan, V.A. (2022). Accenting racism in labour migration. Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, 42, 87-92. [Link]
Ramjattan, V.A. (2022). Racializing the problem of and solution to foreign accent in business. Applied Linguistics Review, 13(4), 527-544. [Link]
Ramjattan, V.A. (2021). The transracial aesthetic labour of an international teaching assistant. Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, 40(8), 973- 985. [Link]
Ramjattan, V.A. (2019). Raciolinguistics and the aesthetic labourer. Journal of Industrial Relations, 61(5), 726-738. [Link]
Ramjattan, V.A. (2019). The white native speaker and inequality regimes in the private English language school. Intercultural Education, 30(2), 126-140. [Link]
Ramjattan, V.A. (2019). Racist nativist microaggressions and the professional resistance of racialized English language teachers in Toronto. Race Ethnicity and Education, 22(3), 374-390. [Link]
Ramjattan, V.A. (2015). Lacking the right aesthetic: Everyday employment discrimination in Toronto private language schools. Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, 34(8), 692-704. [Link]
Book Chapters:
Ramjattan, V.A. (Forthcoming). Raciolinguistic tasks. In N. Wilmot & C. Gaibrois (Eds.), The Routledge companion to cross-cultural management (2nd ed.) (pp. xx-xx). Routledge.
Ramjattan, V.A. (Forthcoming). Micro-aggressions linguistiques en éducation. In S. Melo-Pfeifer & C. Ollivier (Eds.), Encyclopaedia of plurilingual education (pp. xx-xx). Peter Lang.
Ramjattan, V.A. (2025). Twitter as an online counterpedagogy to linguistic prejudice. In J. Setter, S. Dovchin, & V.A. Ramjattan (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of language and prejudice (pp. 681-695). Oxford University Press.
Setter, J., Dovchin, S., & Ramjattan, V.A. (2025). Introduction: Rearticulating prejudice in relation to language. In J. Setter, S. Dovchin, & V.A. Ramjattan (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of language and prejudice (pp. xxvii-xlii). Oxford University Press.
Ramjattan, V.A. (2024). The raciolinguistic enregisterment and aestheticization of ELT labour. In S. Melo-Pfeifer & V. Tavares, Language teacher identity: Confronting ideologies of language, race, and ethnicity (pp. 226-240). Wiley-Blackwell.
Ramjattan, V.A. (2024). International students and language: From individual 'deficiency' to instrument of oppression. In J. Mittelmeier, S. Lomer, & K. Unkule (Eds.), Research with international students: Critical conceptual and methodological considerations (pp. 174-182). Routledge. [Link]
Ramjattan, V.A. (2023). Accent reduction as raciolinguistic pedagogy. In P. Rangan, A. Saxena, R.T. Srinivasan, & P. Sundar (Eds.), Thinking with an accent (pp. 37-53). University of California Press. [Link]
Papers in Conference Proceedings:
Ramjattan, V. (2025). Hearing the professional voice: A raciolinguistic perspective. Proceedings of the 2025 CASAE/ACÉÉA Annual Conference, 447-453. [Link]
Ramjattan, V. (2022). From the linguistically deficient to the linguistically oppressed international student. Proceedings of the SRHE International Conference. [Link]
Ramjattan, V. (2022). The linguistic racism of accent training. Proceedings of the 12th Researching Work & Learning Conference, 201-207. [Link]
Ramjattan, V. (2020). Defining a “neutral” accent for the global economy. Proceedings of Adult Education in Global Times: An International Research Conference, 576-581. [Link]
Ramjattan, V. (2017). The production of linguistic ignorance in Canadian accent reduction programs. Proceedings of the 2017 CASAE/ACÉÉA Annual Conference, 236-240. [Link]
Commentaries and Reviews:
Ramjattan, V.A. (2022). The “foreign TA problem” as a demand for aesthetic labour. Modern Language Journal, 106(2), 486-489. [Link]
Ramjattan, V.A. (2020, October 27). [Review of the book Raciolinguistics: How language shapes our ideas about race, by H.S Alim, J.R. Rickford, and A.F. Ball, eds.]. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, 31(2), 308-310. [Link]
Popular Publications:
Ramjattan, V.A. (2024). Disciplinary guide: Language studies. [Link]
Greenberg, S., Pfeifer, M., Ramjattan, V., Rangan, P., Srinivasan, R.T., & Sundar, P. (2023, November 6). Thinking with “thinking with an accent”: A roundtable conversation [Blog post]. CaMP Anthropology. [Link]
Gerald, J.P.B., Ramjattan, V.A., & Stillar, S. (2022, February). After whiteness III. Language Magazine, 28-31. [Link]
Gerald, J.P.B., Ramjattan, V.A., & Stillar, S. (2021, August). After whiteness, part 2. Language Magazine, 28-31. [Link]
Gerald, J.P.B., Ramjattan, V.A., & Stillar, S. (2021, April). After whiteness: A vision of a possible future for English language teaching, part 1. Language Magazine, 19-23. [Link]
Ramjattan, V.A. (2021, January 12). How international teaching assistants learn to sound like engineers [Blog post]. [Link]
Ramjattan, V. (2019, January 13). Does my voice whiten me or not? A reflection on the instability of race and accent [Blog post]. [Link]
Ramjattan, V. (2018, May). Race and employability in private language schools. Contact, 19-23. [Link]
Ramjattan, V. (2017, September 20). Not having the right/white qualifications for English language teaching [Blog post]. [Link]
Nardozi, A., Lee, C., Delaney, L., Bickford, R., Moynagh, S., & Ramjattan, V. (2014). Liberating the spirit through education transformed: The teacup memorial for Roxana Chu-Yee Ng. Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society, 3(2), 167-175. [Link]
Technical Writing:
Ramjattan, V. (2024, June 24). Building vocabulary for reading and speaking. University of Guelph, McLaughlin Library. [Link]