Roslyn Appleby is an Industry Fellow (honorary) with the School of International Studies and Education. She has qualifications in architectural science, visual arts, and second language education. She has been involved in applied linguistics and language education for many years, in both the private and public education sectors. At UTS she works across adult education, applied linguistics and TESOL. Her research interests include the politics of language, gender, and sexuality; political discourse analysis; posthumanism and postcolonial feminist geographies.

Roslyn’s research has been published in a wide range of fields including gender and sexuality; teacher identity; critical applied linguistics; post-colonialism; and place-based education. Her book, ELT, Gender and International Development: Myths of Progress in a Neocolonial World (opens an external site), draws on the narratives of white women as English language teachers in the neocolonial world of international development. It explores the paradoxes of language as aid, and questions the mythical power of English to deliver on the promises of a brighter future for the developing world. Her book on Men and Masculinities in Global English Language was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2014. Her latest book, Sexing the Animal in a Posthumanist World: A Critical Feminist Approach was published by Routledge in 2019.