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Biography
Scarlet Peterson is a third-year PhD student in French Linguistics and SLATE at UIUC. She earned a MA in French Linguistics at UIUC in 2023. She completed a double major in French Studies (B.A.) and in Microbiology (B.S.) from Brigham Young University in 2019.
Research Interests
Sociolinguistics, sociophonetics, decolonizing pedagogy, multilingualism, minority languages, critical discourse analysis, Banlieue speech perception and language attitudes, raciolinguistics.
Education
M.A. French Applied Linguistics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2023
B.A. French Studies, Brigham Young University, 2019
B.S. Microbiology, Brigham Young University, 2019
Grants
Reed Fellowship, March 2025
Knudson Fellowship/Traineeship, March 2024
French Reed Fund Fellowship, 2023
Minn Fellowship, 2022
Awards and Honors
K.A. Looney Senior Award for Excellence in Teaching French, 2025
Department of French & Italian Essay Prize in French Applied Linguistics, February 2024
K.A. Looney Junior Awards for Excellence in Teaching French, 2023
First Time Attendee Stipend, ACTFL, September 2023
List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent, Fall 2021, Spring 2022, Fall 2022, Spring 2023, Fall 2023
Courses Taught
Course Coordinator, 2022-present
| French 101 | Elementary French I |
| French 102 | Elementary French II |
Instructor of Record, 2021-2024
| French 101 | Elementary French I |
| French 102 | Elementary French II |
| French 207 | Writing and Grammar Workshop |
Teaching Assistant, 2021-2024
| French 101 | Elementary French I |
| French 102 | Elementary French II |
| EURO 418 | Language & Minorities in Europe |
| FR 156 | Exploring Paris |
Selected Conference Presentations
Peterson, S., (2025, July 8) No Child Left Behind Kids Go to College: How do Heritage Speakers of Spanish mediate linguistic (in)security through their acquisition of French? [Conference presentation]. American Association of Teachers of French Convention, Chicago, IL, United States.
Peterson, S., (2025, April 27) No Child Left Behind Kids Go to College: Mediating Linguistic (In)security With Multilingual Instruction [Conference presentation]. 2025 AERA Annual Meeting, Research-in-Progress Roundtable Series, Denver, CO, United States.
Peterson, S., Smith, A., Clay, A., (2023, November 9) Clothing as Rebellion: Decolonizing the curriculum with Authentic Materials [Conference presentation]. American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages Conference, Chicago, IL, United States.
Fagyal, Z., Peterson, S., (2023, June 8). Social and linguistic correlates of assibilation and affrication of coronal plosives in a corpus of urban youth vernacular [Conference presentation]. 53rd Linguistic Symposium on Romance Linguistics, Paris, France.
Peterson, S., (2023, October 14). Variable Realizations of Coronal Plosives in a French Urban Youth Vernacular: A Case Study [Poster Abstract]. NWav 51, New York, New York, United States.
Invited Presentations and Workshops
Peterson, S., (2024, February 7) La banlieue sous l’angle de la sociolinguistique. FR313 : Le Français Parlé dans le Monde.
Peterson, S., Smith, A., Clay, A., (2024, January 19) Clothing as Rebellion: Decolonizing the curriculum with Authentic Materials. Spring 2024 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign’s Department of French and Italian’s Orientation.