Dr. Nirwan, M. Hum. is a new lecturer at the Faculty of Education,UIII. He obtained his Doctoral degree in Linguistics from Udayana University, Bali; his Master’s degree in Linguistic was from Hasanuddin University; and his Bachelor’s degree in English Language Education was from UIN Alauddin Makassar. His doctoral research examined language use through an ethnographic approach within cultural contexts, with a particular focus on metaphor, indexicality, performance, and language ideology. He works on two broad, and related, areas of research: The first is linguistic anthropology (language in culture), which focuses on the relationship between language, culture, and society—how language is applied in social contexts, and how identity, power, and education are shaped via language. The second is Critical Discourse Analysis, which explores how discourse reflects and constructs social realities, specifically in relation to issues of power, ideology, and inequality in various context. Future research will integrate these two areas within educational contexts, as part of an interdisciplinary approach dedicated to the study of language, education, and culture—highly relevant to the Education and Society concentration.