Biographies

Hayriye Kayi-Aydar is an associate professor of English Applied Linguistics at the University of Arizona where she teaches in the MA TESL and PhD SLAT programs. Often using narrative inquiry and discourse analysis approaches, her research focuses on the professional/intersectional identities and agency of teachers in multilingual contexts. Her publications, in most of which she documents marginalized or minoritized identities, have appeared in various peer-reviewed journals, such as TESOL Quarterly, Teaching and Teacher Education, System, TESOL Journal, and Language Teaching. She served, or has served, on multiple editorial boards, including the boards of the TESOL Quarterly, Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, ELT Journal, and Linguistics and Education. She is the author of the monograph Positioning theory in applied linguistics: Research design and applications (Palgrave MacMillan, 2019), and co-editor of Theorizing and analyzing language teacher agency (with Xuesong (Andy) Gao, Elizabeth R. Miller, Manka Varghese and Gergana Vitanova; Multilingual Matters, 2019) and The preparation of teachers of English as an additional language around the world: Research, policy, curriculum, and practice (with Nihat Polat and Laura Mahalingappa; Multilingual Matters, 2021).