Bhim Lal Gautam, PhD is assistant professor and RMC Coordinator at the Central Department
of Linguistics, Tribhuvan University, Nepal. Dr Gautam is a recipient of James McCawley
Fellowship Award (2005, LSA Institute, USA), ASLAN Fellowship Award (2014, CNRS, France),
Faculty Research Fellow (2012, 2016 & 2020 UGC, Nepal) among many others. He is the past
president (2014-2016) of Linguistic Society of Nepal and the Vice President of NELTA (2024-
2027). Currently he is the international committee member of the Association of Language
Awareness.
His areas of interests are MLE, Language contact, Language politics, language policy
and planning including machine learning. Dr Gautam is the author of book entitled Language
Contact in Nepal: A study of Language use and Attitude (Palgrave Macmillan) and articles
published from Palgrave Macmillan (Springer), Lincom Europa, Benjamins, Brill, Mouton De
Gruyter, Routledge etc. in various reputed journals like International Journal of Multilingualism,
Language Ecology, Bandung Journal of Global South, Journal of World languages,
Glottodidactica etc.
He has participated and presented more than two dozen of international
conferences and workshops in the UK, France, Germany, Norway, Brazil, Sweden, the
Netherlands, USA, Australia, Korea, India, Thailand and so on.