William Simpson is a Junior Associate Professor of the Liberal Arts Department of Tokyo University of Science, Japan. He has recently published a book: Capital, Commodity, and English Language Teaching which examines the work of language teaching through the lens of political economy. He is also the co-editor of Routledge’s series on Language, Society, and Political Economy. He has published work on language education, ideology, and political economy, in the Journal of Sociolinguistics, as well as in special issues of Language Sciences, and Language and Intercultural Communication, and has a forthcoming article examining the intersection of gender and political economy in the feminization of Filipina teacher labour online.