Professional Bio

Nicole Siffrinn is an applied linguist and teacher educator specializing in participatory pedagogies, systemic functional linguistics, and posthumanist approaches to language and language research. Her work explores the materiality and movement of language in multilingual teaching and learning contexts with emphasis on how participatory meaning making can support a persistent critique and rebuilding of what counts as language and literacy. As a poet who also draws on arts-based inquiry practices, Nicole Siffrinn is equally interested in how the micropolitical tensions of this work can generate space for post-qualitative methodologies in applied linguistics.

Selected Recent Articles and Book Chapters

Mizell, J., Harman, R., & Siffrinn, N. E. (forthcoming). Qualitative research in second language literacy. In C. A. Chapelle & K. Toohey (Eds.), The encyclopedia of applied linguistics (2nd ed.). Wiley Blackwell.

Siffrinn, N. E., & Gebhard, M. (2024). Disciplinary discourses and second language literacies: A systemic functional linguistic perspective. In B. Paltridge & M. T. Prior (Eds.), The Routledge handbook of second language acquisition and discourse. Routledge.

Siffrinn, N. E. (2021). Making the language system stutter: Linguistic creativity beyond representation. The Canadian Modern Language Review, 77(4).

Siffrinn, N. E. (2020). CS SFL in motion: How performance supports embodied inquiry. In R. Harman & K. Burke (Eds.), Culturally sustaining systemic functional linguistics: Embodied inquiry with multilingual youth. University of Michigan Press.

Siffrinn, N. E., & Harman, R. (2019). Toward an embodied systemic functional linguistics pedagogy. TESOL Quarterly, 53(4), 1162-1173.

Siffrinn, N. E., & McGovern, K. (2019). Expanding youth participatory action research: A Foucauldian take on youth identities. International Multilingual Research Journal, 13(3), 168-180.