L'équilibriste (Tightrope walker)

In this auto-ethnographic account, I reflect on my journey as a multilingual academic researcher and writer, focusing primarily on my experiences with French and English which have become my first two languages. To a lesser extent, I also tell and reflect on my experience with Spanish and Sanskrit, my third and fourth languages, which are part of me too. I reflect on how I have lived and experienced the shaping of a hybrid academic identity, with and beyond two primary languages and cultures. My reflection shows that it is my relationship to language, or, for a better word, my positioning towards language, rather than my relationship to a particular language per se that ultimately matters in my experience of multilingualism.