Celia Helen Thompson
University of Melbourne
Australia

Celia Thompson studied French, German and Russian before lecturing in English as a Second Language and Communication. She completed her undergraduate studies in French language and European literature at the University of Warwick in the UK. She has also studied German in Munich and Bremen and Russian language and culture in St Petersburg. Celia undertook Postgraduate Certificates in Teaching and Counselling and an R.S.A. Diploma in TEFLA before completing her MA studies in Applied Linguistics at the University of Melbourne. The title of Celia's PhD thesis is 'Plagiarism or intertextuality? A study of the politics of knowledge, identity and textual ownership in undergraduate writing' (2006, University of Technology, Sydney, under the supervisions of Alastair Pennycook). Celia is a Lecturer in the School of Languages and Linguistics at the University of Melbourne, Australia and has produced a number of publications relating to authorship and the politics of textual ownership in university student writing.