I have joined the English Department Udayana university since 1983 My educational background includes a bachelor degree (BA) and doctorandus (Drs.) degree in English language and literature from Udayana university, MA degree in Linguistics graduated on the first day of June 1992 and PhD degree in Linguistics graduated on the twenty-fourth day of March 1995 from La Trobe University. I was awarded an outstanding lecturer by the Faculty of Letters in 1997 and Udayana University in the same year and I obtained my professorship in Linguistics in 2005.

        My administrative experiences include Head of the English Extension Program (1997-2004), Head of Linguistics Masters Study Program (2003-2007), Head of Linguistics Doctoral Study Program (2008-2012), and Vice Dean for Academic Affairs (2012-2015).  I am currently the Head of Linguistics Doctoral Study Program (since 2018).

        I was a visiting Professor at the Research School of Pacific Studies, the Australian National University (October 2009-January 2010) and a Visiting Professor at the Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA/ AA-ken), Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (TUFS), Japan (2011-2012). I was involved in the international research project entitled “Austronesian voice systems: an eastern Indonesian perspective” which was funded by National Science Foundation headed by Prof. M. Shibatani from Rice University, USA. (2006-2011). With regard to supervising graduate students; until Mei 2020, as a main supervisor, I have supervised 20 PhD graduates in Linguistics and as co-supervisor of 8 PhD graduates