Kris Aric Knisely (Ph.D., French and Educational Studies, Emory University) is Assistant Professor of French and Intercultural Competence as well as affiliated faculty in both SLAT and TSRC at the University of Arizona.
Knisely’s research, in its broadest form, considers gender and sexuality in the linguistic, socio-cultural, and instructional dimensions of language learning. This entails asking how the linguistically- and culturally-situated ways that we perceive, embody, and otherwise do gender enter into language education, what normativities manifest there, and how those normativities can be laid bare, upended, and unscripted by language teachers and learners.
Within this general frame, Knisely focuses on the culturally-situated linguistic practices of trans and gender non-compliant languagers of French, particularly as they can inform the development and articulation of trans-affirming and gender-just language curricula, materials, research, training, and pedagogies.
Dr. Knisely’s work has appeared in a variety of journals including Contemporary French Civilization, CFC Intersections, Critical Multilingualism Studies, Foreign Language Annals, The French Review, Gender and Language, Journal of Applied Measurement, Modern Language Journal, and Pensamiento Educativo, among others. Knisely is also co-editor of Redoing linguistic worlds: Unmaking gender binaries, remaking gender pluralities (Multilingual Matters).