Demet Yigitbilek
Lecturer in Residence
About
Demet Yigitbilek is a Lecturer in Residence in the Liberal Arts Program at Northwestern University in Qatar. She earned her PhD in English Studies, with a focus on TESOL/Applied Linguistics and Writing Studies from Illinois State University.Prior to relocating to Doha as a postdoctoral research fellow at Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar to conduct research in academic and disciplinary writing, she taught academic English and several writing-intensive courses in Spain, Türkiye, and the U.S., trained teacher candidates, conducted research on multilingual student-writers, and mentored novice writing instructors.
Her teaching and research interests include positioning in writing, writing-teacher identities, multilingual agency, and life writing. Her work has appeared in Journal of English for Academic Purposes, TESL-EJ, and International Journal of Media, Culture and Literature. She has also authored book chapters on first-year writing pedagogies, shifting compositional landscapes, and translingualism.
