Marie-France is a Postdoctoral Fellow in Psychology at the University of Chicago. She obtained her PhD in Psychology at Mid Sweden University in Östersund, Sweden. She was awarded an International Postdoc Grant by the Swedish Research Council to support her research at the University of Chicago.

Marie-France’s research interests combine language, bilingualism, and emotion in social contexts in children and adults. She investigates self-identity and meta-stereotyping in young bilingual speakers, as well as attitudes and prejudices that children and adults have towards bilingual and accented speakers. She is also interested in emotion perception in a first and a second language, as well as in the mental health and well-being of immigrants and linguistic minorities in relation to language use.