About

For a more formal overview, please consult my CV.

In 2006, I moved from the Rotinonhsión:ni territory of Tsí Tkaròn:to (Toronto) to Tiohtià:ke (Montréal) because I was curious about life in another city and in another language. This curiosity transformed into a linguistic journey towards better understanding how learners perceive and eventually add another language to their communicative repertoires.

While teaching English as a second language (L2), I was also learning French as my L2, and noticed that the languages seemed to be ‘talking’ to each other, creating clever calques along the way. I began to wonder if these cross-linguistic moments could also affect our perception of sound, and investigated French L2 learners’ perceptions of past tense morphophonology during my MA in Applied Linguistics.

Now as a PhD candidate in Education at Concordia, I am continuing my research in perception and focusing on dialectal learning, which takes both language and territory into account. Specifically, I am interested in developing inclusive curriculum and tools that involve interacting with multiple voices of a language, and critically discussing how those languages arrived on those lands.

Beyond language, I am an aspiring horticulturist & herbalist who enjoys long walks, bird watching, crafting, and relaxing with supernatural horror films.