Profile

	Name: Beatriz P. Lorente
	Designation: Lecturer
	Telephone: 6601 1226
	Email: elcbpl@nus.edu.sg
	Office: ERC #02-16L (University Town, 8 College Avenue West, Singapore 138608)

Academic Qualifications

Wang Gungwu Medal and Prize for the Best PhD Thesis in the Humanities and Social Sciences, AY 2006 – 2007, National University of Singapore
Outstanding Final Research Paper, Department of Linguistics, Ohio University, 2000

Lorente, B.P. (2011). The making of workers of the world: language and the labor brokerage state. In A. Duchene & M. Heller (Eds.), Pride and profit: language in late capitalism (pp.183 – 206). London and New York: Routledge.
Lorente, B.P. (2010) Packaging English-speaking products: maid agencies in Singapore (pp. 44 – 55). In H. Kelly-Holmes and G. Mautner (Eds.), Language and the Market, Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave-MacMillan.
Lorente, B.P. (forthcoming). The grip of English and Philippine language policy. In L.H.A. Wee, L. Lim & R.B.H. Goh (Eds.), The Politics of English in Asia: Language Policy and Cultural Expression in South and Southeast Asia, Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Tupas, T.R.F. & Lorente, B.P. (forthcoming). A ‘new’ politics of language in the Philippines: bilingual education and the new challenge of the mother tongues. In P. Sercombe & T.R.F. Tupas (Eds.). Language, identities and education in Southeast Asia: language contact, assimilation and shift in Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and Singapore. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

Lorente, B. P. (2011). Language and labor migration: the Philippine state and the making of workers of the world. Linguistic Society of the Philippines National Conference, University of Asia & the Pacific, Manila, Philippines, 19 May.
Lorente, B.P. (2010). Language in the making of workers of the world. International seminar on “Language, labor and migration”, AILA Research Network on Language and Migration, Institute of Multilingualism, University of Fribourg and HEP Fribourg, Switzerland, 28 – 29 January.
Lorente, B.P. (2011). Mapping modernities: Filipino domestic workers in Singapore and the symbolic values of “good English” in panel on “Language, mobility and modernity”, American Anthropological Association (AAA) Annual Meeting, November 16 – 20, Montreal, Canada.
Lorente, B.P. (2010). From migrant women to supermaids: language-ing transnational domestic workers in panel on “Language-ing the global workforce”, American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans, November 17 – 21 (*Paper presented by a proxy).
Lorente, B.P. and Tupas, T.R.F. (2010). (Un)emancipatory hybridity: Selling English in an unequal world in panel on “Between the local and the global: hybridity through English in multilingual contexts”, Sociolinguistics Symposium 18, University of Southampton, UK, 1 – 4 September.