Julian Canjura

PhD Candidate, Dept. of Applied Linguistics @ Penn State

Publications

Özçelik, M. & Canjura, J. Unpacking the narrative complexities of YouTube: A multi-participant framework for social media analysis. Narrative Inquiry. 10.1075/ni.25120.ozc 
Canjura, J. (2025). Critical Discourse Studies and race and language ideology on social media: A Discourse-Historical Approach to examining raciolinguistic enregisterment online. In A. Ajšić, & R. Vessey, (Eds.) Current Approaches to Language Ideology and  Metalinguistic Discourse. Routledge. 

Presentations

Refereed presentations

Canjura, J. (July 2026). Stance-taking as a technology of power and the self: A linguistic anthropological approach for analyzing social media interaction. International Conference on Social Media & Society, Glasgow, Scotland.

Canjura, J. & Milani, T. M. (March 2026). Language ideologies and nationalism. AAAL, Chicago, Illinois.

Yi, Y. F., Lukow, H., Canjura, J. & Lee, J. I., Sonmez, E. Questioning antinormativity: Thinking with trans studies in translanguaging research. AAAL, Chicago, Illinois.

Canjura, J. & Bauer, S. (September 2025) Cringe and the Alpha Male: Stance-taking and hegemonic masculinity on Reddit. Birthing the Nation: Gender, Sex and Production in Ethnonationalist Imagines Concluding Conference. State College, Pennsylvania. 
 Lukow, H. & Canjura, J. (May 2025). Collective Remembering and Imagining the American Small Town: A Narrative Case Study of “Our Town Bellefone.”  Society for Linguistic Anthropology Biennial Conference, Chicago, Illinois. 
Canjura, J. & Özçelik, M. (March 2025). Toward a multi-participant framework for social media narrative analysis. AAAL 2025, Denver, Colorado. 
Canjura, J. & Özçelik, M (July 2024). Raciolinguistics and ridesharing: Race and language ideologies in a transient mobile contact zone.  Association of Language Awareness 2024, Karlsruhe, Germany. 
Lukow, H. & Canjura, J. (July 2024). Yiddish as cultural capital and ethnolinguistic resource on TikTok.  Association of Language Awareness 2024, Karlsruhe, Germany. 
Looney, S., Sun, M., Canjura, J. (June 2024). Deontic downgrades in responses to requests: Sequence and design as criteria for rating L2 interactional competence.  ICOP-L2 2024, Kolding, Denmark. 
Looney, S., Sun, M., Canjura, J. (March 2024). Downgrading deontic stance: Sequence and design in responses to requests. AAAL 2024, Houston, Texas. 
Looney, S., Sun, M., Canjura, J. (February 2024). Assessing interactional competence for international graduate students in the US. Mälardalen Interaction and Didactics, Mälardalen University, Sweden. Delivered remotely via videoconferencing. 
Canjura, J. (March 2024). English in large language-learning Facebook Groups: What’s really going on in informal online education spaces?  [Roundtable presentation]. AAAL 2024, Houston, Texas. 
Po, B., Su, C., Canjura, J., Milojičić, V., Jiang, Z.,Han, J., Sun., M. and Jackson, S.C.​ (April 2023) Elizabeth Regina: Between mourning and malice – social media discourses on colonialism and culture. [Panel-length paper presentation]. Popular Culture Association 2023, San Antonio, Texas. 
Canjura, J. (June 2022). (Im)politeness and disagreement strategies in a Facebook Group [Paper presentation]. International Association for Teaching Pragmatics Spring Seminar: New Advances in L2 Pragmatics and Technology, Barcelona, Spain. Delivered remotely via videoconferencing. 
Canjura, J. (February 2021). Social networking sites and the development of second language pragmatics . Peaks Interdisciplinary Conference, Flagstaff, Arizona. 

University and departmental talks

 Steele, A., Fan, Y, & Canjura, J. (May 2025).  Putting the 'trans' in translingualism: A conversation. The 2025 Weiss Humanities Symposium, Penn State, State College, Pennsylvania. 
Canjura, J. & Özçelik, M. (January 2024). Social media narrative analysis. Applied Linguistics Roundtable, Penn State, State College, Pennsylvania. 
Canjura, J. & Özçelik, M. (January 2024). Creating the raciolinguistic Other in Uber rides: Race, language, and nation in transient mobile contact zones. The Migration Studies Project, Penn State, State College, Pennsylvania. 
 Özçelik, M., Canjura, J., Xiaozheng, D., Bastos, P., & Msimango, M. J.  (December 2023). Meeting halfway: Strategies for Native English Speakers in communication with Non-Native Speakers. The Migration Studies Project, Penn State, State College, Pennsylvania. 
Canjura, J., Bastos, P., Dai, X., Msimango, M., Özçelik, M. (November 2022). Designing resources for developing interactional competence in US domestic graduate students. Applied Linguistics Roundtable Series, State College, Pennsylvania. 

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