Pia Lane

Professor of Multilingualism

Pia Lane is Professor of Multilingualism at the Center for Multilingualism in Society across the Lifespan (MultiLing) at the University of Oslo, Norway. She is PI of the project Indigenous Language Resilience: From learners to speakers (2023-2028). Her research focuses on multilingualism in the Arctic, with a particular emphasis on language policy, language shift and language revitalisation in relation to Indigenous and minoritised languages in Northern Norway. Her publications appear in journals such as Language Policy, International Journal of the Sociology of Language and Linguistic Minorities in Europe Online and in edited volumes published by Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, Routledge, Palgrave, De Gruyter, and Wiley-Blackwell. Her edited publications include Negotiating Identities in Nordic Migrant Narratives - Crossing Borders and Telling Lives, Palgrave (Lane, Kjelsvik and Bøstein Myhr 2022) and Standardizing Minority Languages: Competing Ideologies of Authority and Authenticity in the Global Periphery, Routledge (Lane, Costa and De Korne 2017. She is co-editor-in-chief of LME Linguistic Minorities in Europe Online (LME) and serves as a member of the Norwegian Truth and Reconciliation Commission (2018-2023).
Photo: Arne Hauge