Nicolas Femia
Doctoral Student
Department of Swedish, multilingualism, language technologyAbout Nicolas Femia
Since February of 2022 I am employed as PhD student in multilingualism and part of the national research school CuEEd-LL. My PhD project examines language ideological tensions at an upper-secondary school in a Swedish suburb. I employ ethnographic methods to explore students’ and teachers’ voices and perspectives on language in this context. In western research there is a strong tendency to rely on perspectives on multilingualism that are considered universal, but that make the dynamics of multilingualisms that exist in the tension between dominant and marginal perspectives on language invisible. I attempt to avoid this tendency by combining theoretical and analytical tools that stem from both western sociolinguistics and decolonial perspectives on multilingualism to make the entangled language realities of multilingual youth visible. The project is supervised by Marie Rydenvald, Ylva Lindberg, Rickard Jonsson och Henning Årman.
Education
- Bachelor's Degree in Italian Studies (2018 – Lund University)
- Master's Degree in Bilingualism (2021 – Stockholm University)
Teaching
I teach courses in Swedish for international students, and I am involved in free-standing courses about multilingualism at bachelor's and master's level, as well as in multiple courses within the Teacher Program in Swedish as a Second Language. I also supervise student theses in free-standing courses and within the Teacher Program.