Jim McKinley is an associate professor of English at Sophia University in Tokyo, Japan, where he has taught for more than a decade. He has a co-edited volume with Dr. Heath Rose (Oxford University) on doing research in applied linguistics, to be published by Routledge in early 2017. He has published in journals including RELC, Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, Journal of Asia TEFL, and Language Learning in Higher Education, and several chapters in edited volumes, including one on EMI in higher education in Japan, on making the EFL to ELF transition.