Assistant Director, Program in Writing and Rhetoric
Graduate Student
Predoctoral Instructor
Biography
M.A., TESOL, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2021
Awards
National Federation of Modern Language Teachers Associations (NFMLTA)/The Modern Language Journal (MLJ) Dissertation Writing Support Grant, 2025
Departmental Dissertation Fellowship, 2025
Graduate School Conference Travel Award, 2025
Graduate and Professional Student Senate Travel Grant, 2022 & 2024
Hilen Summer Research Fellowship, 2023
Summer Recruitment Award, 2021
Research
Selected Research
- Kir, F. S. (2025). Language ideologies in new media: grassroots resistance to a multilingual language policy. Current Issues in Language Planning, 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1080/14664208.2025.2470493
- Kir, F. S. (2024). English-medium instruction (EMI) as the great (un)equaliser: experiences of former EMI students in Turkey. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development. https://doi.org/10.1080/01434632.2024.2302950
- Kir, F. S. (2024). Intersectionality of sexuality, ethnicity, and ‘(non-) native-speakerness’: a narrative inquiry of a gay Kurdish ESL teacher in Canada. Language and Education. 38(2). 237-250. https://doi.org/10.1080/09500782.2023.2221223
- Kir, F. S. (2022). The effect of racialization on EFL learners’ conceptualizations of the ‘native speaker’ construct. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development. https://doi.org/10.1080/01434632.2022.2125000