Stefanie Menezes

Stefanie Menezes is a first-year Master of European Studies student at the University of Guelph. She previously spent 5 years at the University of Toronto, graduating in May 2024 with a Bachelor’s Degree in Linguistics and minors in English and French. During her undergraduate studies, she completed an independent research project to create a junior-level dictionary for an endangered Indigenous language. She also participated in a project to digitize manuscripts of a 20th century German-Hebrew Bible Translation through the Jackman Scholars-in-Residence Program. Including English, French, and German, she can communicate in six languages. 

Stefanie has held a variety of extracurricular and volunteer positions, such as Newspaper Section Editor, Academic Coordinator for the Italian Student Association, First Communion Catechist at her local church and dog-walker with ElderDog Canada. Additionally, she has several years of experience as a language tutor, which has led to her interest in education. 

In the last few years, she has also engaged in research on a variety of linguistics topics: pedagogical approaches to language revitalization, sentence processing in neurodegenerative disorders, and the mental rhetoric of eating disorders. Her current research focuses on Soviet linguistic theories and Russian-Ukrainian language contact.