Language is both a fundamental aspect of our identity and a powerful device to discursively shape our own and other people’s identities. Identity is understood both at the social level, where it coincides with identification with certain social groups, and at the personal level, where it connects to the development and maintenance of a (healthy) sense of self. Far from being rigid containers, more of often than not identities are fluid and hybrid: they can be disrupted, contested, re-shaped. Moreover, identities are always intersectional, involving multiple dimensions (e.g. gender and social class and ethnicity, for instance). Through research-led teaching, this module examines the interplay of language and identity from a variety of angles (sex/gender, geopolitical, professional etc) and in a variety of contexts, such as education, the workplace and migration settings. Conversational, discursive and literary data form the rich basis for data-driven reflection, which connects scholarship with real-world problems of equality, diversity and social justice.