Home Department: French and Italian
SLAT Areas of Specialization: Instructional Dimensions of L2 Learning, Linguistic Dimensions of L2 Learning, Sociocultural Dimensions of L2 Learning
Dr. Kris Aric Knisely (PhD, Emory University, French and Educational Studies, 2015) is Associate Professor of French and Intercultural Competence in the Department of French and Italian at the University of Arizona. He is also a faculty member of the Second Language Acquisition and Teaching (SLAT) Graduate Interdisciplinary Program and is a member of the Trans Studies Research Cluster (TSRC). Knisely serves as the co-chair of the Diversity De-colonization and the French Curriculum Collective, on the Advisory Committee for Lavender Languages and Linguistics, and on several editorial boards including CFC-Intersections and Foreign Language Annals.
Knisely’s research focuses on language and gender as social and relational practices that we do and do together, especially as they relate to the linguistic, sociocultural, and instructional dimensions of language learning. In a secondary line of research, he explores educational technology and teacher education as they relate to language education. Dr. Knisely has published in the fields of applied linguistics, CALL, cultural studies, education, and measurement. Dr. Knisely has a broad range of teaching interests including French language, linguistics, intercultural communication, gender and sexuality, and education, among others.
Dr. Knisely’s work has appeared in in English, French, and Spanish, in a variety of edited volumes and 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's work has also been featured in venues such as The New York Times, The Vocal Fries Podcast, Not Your Typical Book Club (ACTFL), and the Behind the Books Youtube series (Multilingual Matters). Knisely is co-editor (with Eric Russel, UC-Davis) of Redoing linguistic worlds: Unmaking gender binaries, remaking gender pluralities (Multilingual Matters).