Maria Kuteeva

Maria Kuteeva is a Professor at the Department of English, Stockholm University, where she has been working since 2008. She played a significant role in establishing the Centre for Academic English at Stockholm University, where she served as director from 2010 to 2017. Her career includes visiting researcher positions at the University of Wisconsin, Madison (2013) and the University of Helsinki (2018), as well as an Erik Allardt research fellowship at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies (2021).

Maria Kuteeva's research focuses on the use of English in multilingual university settings, including English-medium education (EME/EMI), writing for publication, and the impact of digital technologies on academic discourse. She has made significant contributions to understanding the tensions between English and multilingualism in academic contexts, particularly in Sweden. Her work has been published in top international peer-reviewed journals such as Applied Linguistics, English for Specific Purposes, Journal of English for Academic Purposes, Discourse, Context & Media, Higher Education, and Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development.

Professor Kuteeva has an impressive record of publications that examine the complex relationship between English and multilingualism in academia. Her book Tension-filled English at the multilingual university: A Bakhtinian perspective (2023, Multilingual Matters) explores the emotional and practical challenges of English use in non-anglophone academic environments. She has also co-edited important publications on language perceptions and practices in multilingual universities.

Among her notable achievements, Maria Kuteeva has been recognized in the Stanford/Elsevier World's 2% Most-Cited Scientists ranking in 2022, 2023, and 2024. She serves on editorial boards of leading journals including Applied Linguistics, Journal of English for Academic Purposes, Journal of English for Research Publication Purposes, and the open access peer-reviewed series "Stockholm English Studies." Together with Ruth Breeze, she is co-editor-in-chief of Ibérica: Journal of the European Association of Languages for Specific Purposes.

Maria Kuteeva has supervised research projects across multiple domains including discourse analysis, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, language teaching and learning, and other areas of English linguistics. She currently teaches and coordinates the "Dynamics of Multilingualism" course for the Faculty of Humanities Doctoral School at Stockholm University, as well as other courses on Discourse Analysis, English and Multilingualism, Syntax, Language for Specific Purposes, and English for Academic Research.