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Scarlet Peterson (she/elle/ella)

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Contact Information

Literatures, Cultures, and Linguistics building, room 2129


Office Hours

FA 2024: Wednesdays, 11:00-11:50
PhD Student, Teaching Assistant, French 101 & 102 Coordinator

Biography

Scarlet Peterson is a second year PhD student in French Linguistics 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

Knudson Fellowship/Traineeship, March 2024

French Reed Fund Fellowship, 2023

Minn Fellowship, 2022

Awards and Honors

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

 

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., 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.