Contact Information
4016E Literatures, Cultures & Linguistics Building
707 S. Mathews Ave. | MC-168
Urbana, IL 61801
707 S. Mathews Ave. | MC-168
Urbana, IL 61801
PhD Student
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Research Interests
(Critical)Sociolinguistics, Silence, Discourse & Identity, and Linguistic Anthropology.
Education
M.A. Linguistics, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
M.A. TESOL, Sharif University of Technology, Iran.
B.A. English Literature, Mazandaran University, Iran.
Awards and Honors
Linguistics Student Leadership Award (2025)
Courses Taught
LING 100
LING 222
LING 250
LING 450
ESL 115
ESL 511
ESL 512
Highlighted Publications
- Jamshidi, S., & Rezaei, S. (2021). On the dissemination of the discourse of going: The case of Iranian for-profit study abroad institution's chronotopic representation of ideal life there. Language & Communication, 80, 11-24.
- Mansouri, S., & Jamshidi, S. (2026). Who gets the thumbs up? Navigating polycentric desires in Iranian blind dates. Language, Culture and Society. https://doi.org/10.1075/lcs.25009.man
Recent Publications
- Abe, S., Jamshidi, S., & Rezaei, S. (2022). Religious Debates on the Coronavirus Pandemic in Iran: Examination of their Discourses, Rationales, and Implications. Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature & Culture, 16(1).
- Rezaei, S., & Jamshidi, S. (2025). Mourning in the Time of COVID-19: Social Stigma or Religious Solidarity during Muharram?. In SOCIAL STIGMA AND THE PANDEMIC: Key Challenges and Responses Across Greater Asia (pp. 111-126).
- Jamshidi, S., Rezaei, S., Hassanzadeh, M., & Dehqan, M. (2019). Development and Validation of an Authorial Identity Model and Questionnaire: A factor analytic approach. Issues in Language Teaching, 8(2), 243-273.
- Jamshidi, S., & Rezaei, S. (2019). Authority or impersonality: A mixed-methods study of authorial identity in Iranian context. Journal of Language Horizons, 3(2), 105.