Graham V. Crookes is Professor in the Department of Second Language Studies at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, and the clearest English-language advocate for critical language pedagogy in mainstream ELT journals. His career tracks a recognisable shape: conventional high-school teaching in London and Malaysia, then ELT in Japan in the 1980s, then the long pivot toward a values-first account of what language teaching is for.
The early work made him a familiar name in TBLT through contributions on task design and planning time with Michael Long and Gass. The later work — Values, Philosophies, and Beliefs in TESOL (2009), Critical ELT in Action (2013), English for a Critical Mind (with Cogo and Siqueira) — asks teachers to articulate the ethical and political commitments underneath their classroom choices. His 2022 research timeline on critical language pedagogy in Language Teaching is the standard field review.