Devyani Sharma is a sociolinguist and professor at Queen Mary University of London. Her research interests include language variation and change, syntactic variation and style. Sharma's work particularly focusses on these topics within British Asian communities. She has written widely on these topics for various publications and currently serves as an associate editor for the Journal of Sociolinguistics. Sharma holds a PhD and MA in linguistics from Stanford University and a BA in anthropology/ linguistics and fine art from Dartmouth College.