Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Editors' Introduction -- Part I: Language Specialists as Language Learners -- The Fortunate Traveler: Shuttling between Communities and Literacies by Economy Class -- Initiating into Academic Community: Some Autobiographical Reflections -- Reminiscences of a Multilingual Life: A Personal Case History -- Developing Literacy Can and Should Be Fun: But Only Sometimes Is -- Straddling Three Worlds -- How a Speaker of Two Second Languages Becomes a Writer in a Foreign Language -- From L1 to L12: The Confessions of a Sometimes Frustrated Multiliterate -- My Experience of Learning to Read and Write in Japanese as L1 and English as L2 -- An Introspective Account of L2 Writing Acquisition -- Writing from Chinese to English: My Cultural Transformation -- Part II: Crossing Cultures Across the Disciplines -- Learning Is a Lifelong Process -- Linguistic Experiences of a Mathematical Career -- Taking the Best from a Number of Worlds: An Interview with Hooshang Hemami -- Growing up Trilingual: Memories of an Armenian/ Arabic/ English Speaker -- How Can I Help Make a Difference? An Interview with Robert Agunga -- A Professional Academic Life in Two Languages: An Interview with María Juliá -- On Being a Citizen of the World: An Interview with Luis Proenza -- The Advantages of Starting Out Multilingual: An Interview with Steven Beering -- Appendix.