Allyson Jule, PhD, is a Senior Lecturer in Education at the University of Glamorgan, Wales, UK. Her research concentrates on gender and language use in various classrooms settings, including gender at an intersection with ethnicity and religious identity. She is also the author of Gender, Participation and Silence in the Language Classroom: Sh-shushing the Girls (2004), the editor of Gender and the Language of Religion (2005), Language and Religious Identity: Women in Discourse (2007), and a co-editor of Being Feminist, Being Christian: Essays from Academia (2006).