Nurul Huda Hamzah is a senior lecturer at the Faculty of Languages & Linguistics, Universiti Malaya. Her PhD thesis was on the Chetti Melaka community in Malaysia. She investigated aspects of language use and cultural practice among the Chetti community in Kampung Chetti, Melaka. She is currently expanding her research on the Chetti Melaka community through grants awarded by Universiti Malaya.