Core Faculty

José Luis Boigues

José Luis Boigues
Associate Teaching Professor, Spanish and Portuguese

Research
Discourse Analysis
Interculturality

Erica Britt

Erica Britt
Associate Teaching Professor, Linguistics

Research
African American Language
Discourse Analysis
Sociolinguistics

Hsu-Te Cheng

Hsu-Te Cheng
Associate Teaching Professor, Chinese Language,
Russian and East Asian Languages & Cultures

Research
East Asian Syntax
Syntax-Semantics Interface
Chinese Lingusitics

Jinho Choi

Jinho Choi
Associate Professor, Computer Science

Research
Natural Language Processing
Machine Learning

H. Robyn Clarke

H. Robyn Clarke
Associate Teaching Professor, Spanish and Portuguese
Director of the Spanish Language Program

Research
Health Communication
Spanish/English Medical Interpretation

Sandra Descourtis

Sandra Descourtis
Assistant Teaching Professor, French

Research
Sociolinguistics
Plurilingualism
Language Ideologies
Raciolinguistics

Roberto Franzosi

Roberto Franzosi
Professor, Sociology

Research
Textual Analysis Narrative
Language and Mass Media

Seth Goss

Seth Goss
Associate Professor, Japanese, REALC

Research
Second Language Acquisition

Jack Hardy

Jack Hardy
Assistant Professor of Linguistics, Oxford

Research
Corpus Linguistics in Language Teaching
Undergraduate Student Writing
Conference Proposals
Student-Driven Projects

 
Yun Kim

Yun Kim
Associate Teaching Professor, Linguistics
Director of Undergraduate Research

Research
First/Second Language Acquisition
Bilingualism
Infant Speech Perception

 
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Xochitl Marsilli-Vargas
Assistant Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese

Research
Language and Culture
Intercultural Communication
Semiotics
Listening Practices
Translation

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Hiram Maxim
Professor, German Studies and Linguistics

Research
Educational Linguistics
Second Language Acquisition/Literacy
Linguistic Landscapes

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Tamara Nicol Medina
Associate Teaching Professor, Department of Psychology

Research
Cognitive Development
Language Acquisition
Syntax

James Morey

James Morey
Professor, English

Research
Old and Middle English
Old Norse
Modern Icelandic

Lynne Nygaard

Lynne Nygaard
Professor, Psychology
Chair, Department of Psychology

Research
Speech Perception
Spoken Language Processing

Marjorie Pak

Marjorie Pak
Associate Teaching Professor, Linguistics
Director of Undergraduate Studies, Program in Linguistics

Director of the Structured Independent Language Study Program (SILS)

Research
Syntactic theory
Phonological theory
Syntax-phonology interface
Word formation and word-level phonology

Susan Tamasi

Susan Tamasi
Teaching Professor, Linguistics
Director, Program in Linguistics

Research
Sociolinguistics
Language Attitudes
American English
Health Communication

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Donald Tuten
Associate Professor, Spanish and Linguistics

Research
Historical Sociolinguistics
Romance Linguistics
Applied Linguistics

Debra Vidali

Debra Spitulnik Vidali
Associate Professor, Anthropology

Research
African Languages
Discourse Analysis
Language and Culture
Media and Communication
Multilingualism

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Daniel Walter
Assistant Professor of German and Linguistics, Oxford

Research
Second Language Acquisition
Morphosyntax
German as a Second Language
Psycholinguistics

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Phillip Wolff
Professor, Psychology
Coordinator, Joint Psychology and Linguistics Majors

Research
Cognitive Science
Lexical Semantics
Metaphor
Acquisition of Meaning

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Brianna Yamasaki
Assistant Professor, Psychology

Research
Cognitive & Developmental Neuroscience
Language
Literacy