Maria Chiras is an English instructor at an English college in Montreal, Quebec. Her research interests emerge from her own educational experiences as a multilingual student in Montreal, Quebec. Currently, she has been pursuing doctoral research at McGill University, in the Department of Integrated Studies in Education. Her current research focuses on the role of multilingualism in students’ experiences with language education and writing and the implications of these experiences for student persistence in Quebec higher education, in particular, the interaction between cultural identity, language, and writing.