He has been teaching at his institution since November 1990 - present. He finished his undergraduate (S1) in 1989 at English Department, Faculty of Arts Udayana University. He completed his master degree (M.Pd) in language teaching at University of Education (Ganesha), Singaraja, Bali. He finished his Ph.D program at Linguistics Program, Post Graduate Program Udayana University. He is interested in sociolinguistics, sociopragmatics, discourse analysis, ethnography of speaking, language and power.