Allyson Jule

Allyson Mary Julé is a Canadian academic and Professor of Education at the University of the Fraser Valley, in British Columbia, Canada. She has lectured worldwide in her field, and written and edited many academic publications on feminist linguistics and pedagogy.

She authored A Beginner's Guide to Language and Gender and Gender and Participation and Silence in the Language Classroom: Sh-shushing the Girls and is best known for her work on "linguistic space" and the silencing of girls and women, particularly in religious classroom communities. Jule is also media reviews editor for Women & Language journal and servers on the executive council for the International Gender and Language Association.

Education Julé graduated from the University of Alberta with a B.Ed. in intercultural education and went on to earn a master's degree in education at Simon Fraser University. She continued her academic studies in London, UK, at Roehampton Institute, earning a Ph.D. in education. She has also studied at the University of Ottawa (linguistics) and the University of British Columbia (adult education).