معرفی
Taraneh Sanei is a Lecturer in the Persian Program at the Institute of Islamic Studies, McGill University. She specializes in the sociolinguistics of Iran and the Iranian diaspora, focusing on multilingualism, language ideologies, and online/offline communication. Her teaching experience spans Persian language courses at all levels, sociolinguistics, and English as a second/foreign language in Iran and the U.S.
- PhD in Linguistics (2021), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- MA in Linguistics (2018), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- MA in TEFL (2016), University of Tehran
- BS in Chemical Engineering (2013), Amirkabir University
Her research examines identity performance in digital spaces, Persian-English code-switching, and multimodal communication in Iranian social media. She is converting her dissertation into a book on Iranian social media, exploring evolving Persian language use and its implications for pedagogy. Her publications address themes like transliteration practices, orthographic changes, and sociophonetic indexicality in globalized contexts.
Taraneh has presented at conferences including SALSA, AAAL, and GURT, covering topics such as memes as identity tools, chronotopes in immigrant communities, and language purification debates. She teaches introductory to advanced Persian courses at McGill (ISLA 241/641D1-D2, ISLA 342/642D1-D2, ISLA 443/643D1-D2), integrating sociolinguistic insights into curriculum design.
