Dr Kinley Dorjee is an Assistant Professor specialising in English, applied linguistics and educational research. He holds a PhD in English Linguistics from the English and Foreign Languages University, India, an MA in Linguistics from North-Eastern Hill University, India, and a Postgraduate Certificate in Education from the National Institute of Education, Samtse.

With more than two decades of tertiary teaching experience, he teaches English, applied linguistics, second language acquisition, action research, and qualitative and quantitative research methods across undergraduate and postgraduate programmes. He has supervised 40 completed M.Ed. theses and continues to support postgraduate researchers.

His scholarship examines Dzongkha phonetics and phonology, sociolinguistic variation, language policy, academic writing and early childhood language development. His publications also explore linguistic change, language borrowing and Bhutan’s multilingual landscape. His professional service includes membership of the National Dzongkha Expert Committee and the Royal University of Bhutan’s Higher Degree Research Committee, alongside international journal editorial work.