Corinne Stokes

Corinne Stokes specializes in sociolinguistics, language pedagogy, and popular music and culture studies, working in particular with Arabic, Persian, and Turkish languages. She holds an MA in Arabic Studies and a PhD in Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures from the University of Texas at Austin. She recently published an article entitled “Performing Khaleejiness on Instagram” in Arabian Humanities and is a collaborating author of A Grammar of Arabic (ed. Kristen Brustad, published by Routledge), which is a non-traditional reference grammar that models a new framework for studying varieties of Arabic comparatively. She is currently working on a book about developing intercultural communicative competence among Arabic learners, as well as an ethnographic project that explores language ideologies among Khaleeji Arabic speakers. Stokes has taught courses on sociolinguistics, multilingualism, and popular music, as well as on Modern Standard, Egyptian, and Emirati Arabic at introductory, intermediate, and advanced levels. In her teaching, she seeks to incorporate intercultural, multimodal, and multilingual perspectives. 

Stokes studied music as an undergraduate at the University of Miami, the American University in Cairo, and the Berklee College of Music, and enjoys playing the violin. Prior to joining William & Mary, she was a Senior Lecturer of Arabic at NYU Abu Dhabi.