MEET ASOCOPI'S 55th CONGRESS INTERNATIONAL PLENARY SPEAKERS 

Margaret R. Hawkins

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Margaret R. Hawkins is a Professor at the  University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA. Her work attends to languages, literacies  and learning across classroom, home, and community-based settings in local and  global contexts.   As a community-engaged scholar she has worked with  schools, communities, community organizations and institutions of higher  education around the world. She is the recipient of the Leadership Through  Research Award from the Second Language Research SIG of the American  Educational Research Association (2019) and the Erwin Zolt Digital Literacy  Gamechanger Award from the International Literacy Association (2019). Her  current focus is exploring semiotics and relations in transmodal communications.

Andréa Machado de Aldeida Mattos   

Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais 

Andréa Machado De Almeida Mattos holds a PhD in Linguistic Studies from the University of São Paulo. She is Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics at the School of Languages and Linguistics, and a researcher at NECLLE – Núcleo de Estudos Críticos sobre Linguagens, Letramentos e Educação (Centre for Critical Studies on Languages, Literacies and Education), at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, a registered group at the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq). She is also a Productivity Researcher at CNPq (Grant n. 308243/2020-0). ORCID: org/0000-0003-3190-7329.  

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