Russell H. Kaschula

Russell H Kaschula holds a PhD from Rhodes. He is a professor in the Department of African Language Studies at the University of the Western Cape. He also holds the Institutional Chair in Forensic Linguistics and Multilingualism.

He has published widely in the field of applied language studies, including forensic linguistics, intercultural studies, education and multilingualism more generally.

In 2021 he published a book with Routledge in London and New York titled Languages, Identities and Intercultural Communication in South Africa and Beyond. He also co-edited A Handbook on Legal Languages and the Quest for Linguistic Equality in South Africa and Beyond, published by African SUN Press (2021), and co-edited a book titled Language and the Law. Global Perspectives in Forensic Linguistics from Africa and Beyond, published in 2022. In 2023, Prof Kaschula co-edited Language, Crime and Courts in Contemporary Africa and Beyond (African SUN Press).

Prof Kaschula acts as an international advisor to the Journal of Semiotics and Law as well as a number of other journals. He has a B1 rating with the National Research Foundation.

Prof Kaschula has taught at five South African universities and a liberal arts college in the USA. He has supervised 35 MA students and 31 PhD students to completion. At present he supervises many postgraduates, especially in the field of forensic linguistics. He has also acted as a postgraduate examiner for many universities both in South Africa and abroad.

His ORCID number is 0000-0002-54816748