Elanur Sönmez is a Ph.D. student in Applied Linguistics at The Pennsylvania State University. She graduated from Master of Arts in Foreign Language Education at Boğaziçi University, Türkiye in 2021, where she also completed her BA in 2018. Elanur has been teaching English both as a second and foreign language at the tertiary level since 2018. Her work primarily focuses on supporting English learners in academic English and English for specific purposes. Elanur is passionate about creating inclusive learning spaces where students feel encouraged to engage with the language, express their ideas, and develop confidence in their linguistic abilities.

Her research interests lie at the intersection of language, migration, and identity, with a particular focus on the discursive construction of agency within transnational contexts.