Contact Information
707 S. Mathews Ave. | MC-168
Urbana, IL 61801
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.
Grants
Block Grant Fellowship
Awards and Honors
Silver Jubilee Award for Outstanding TA in Linguistics (2026)
Linguistics Student Leadership Award (2026)
Linguistics Student Leadership Award (2025)
Courses Taught
As instructor of record:
LING 222: Language in Globalization
ESL 115: Principles of Academic Writing
ESL 511: Written and Oral Communication (graduate-level)
ESL 512: Introduction to Academic Writing (graduate-level)
Graduate teaching assistant:
LING 450: Sociolinguistics I
LING 250: American Voices: Linguistic Diversity in the US
LING 100: Intro to Language Science
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.