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Linda Adler-Kassner, Ph.D.
Writing Program

Public policy and writing/English Language Arts instruction; writing program administration; writing/language pedagogy; composition pedagogies; qualitative research methodologies; literacy in historical and sociocultural contexts; histories of literacy; communication/composition theory.

Charles Bazerman, Ph.D.
Education

Teaching of writing; writing in the disciplines; rhetoric of science and technology; history of literacy; genre theory; activity theory; distance learning.

Magda Campo, M.A.
Religious Studies

Teaching Arabic as a Foreign Language, Middle Eastern Music.

Jenny Cook-Gumperz, Ph.D.
Education

Sociology of Education; sociolinguistics and literacy; gender socialization; Language Interaction and Social Organization.

Richard Duran, Ph.D.
Education

Learning and instruction; assessment; construction of culture through interaction; and bilingualism; cognitive science, language interaction and social organization (LISO).

Angela Ellis, Laurea,
French & Italian
Coordinator of the Italian Language Program

Use of visual material in the development of new teaching techniques.

Carol Genetti, Ph.D.
Linguistics

Tibeto-Burman linguistics, phonology, syntax, language contact, language change.

Howard Giles, Ph.D.
Communication

Language and communication between various social categories; crime, law enforcement, and communication; ethnic identity, bilingualism, and intercultural communication; intergenerational communication across cultures.

Matthew Gordon, Ph.D.
Linguistics

Phonology, phonology, Balto-Finnic linguistics, American Indian linguistics.

Judith Green, Ph.D.
Education

Ethnography; discourse processes in reading in educational settings; constructing literate communities within classrooms); language interaction and social organization (LISO).

Stefan Thomas Gries, Ph.D.
Linguistics

Quantitative corpus linguistics, statistical/computational linguistics, cognitive linguistics, first and second language acquisition.

Mary Hegarty, Ph.D.
Psychology

Comprehension, reasoning, spatial cognition, individual differences.

Amy Kyratzis, Ph.D.
Education

Language and communicative development; gender differences in language and cognition; language socialization; cognitive science.

Gene Lerner, Ph.D.
Sociology

Conversation analysis; social aspects of grammar; social life of very young children.

Richard Mayer, Ph.D.
Psychology

Human learning, problem-solving, educational psychology, human-computer interaction, multimedia learning, mathematical and scientific reasoning.

Katia McClain, Ph.D.
Germanic, Slavic & Semitic

Slavic linguistics, discourse, language acquisition, language and gender, folklore, women in Russian and East European society and literature.

Larry McLellan, M.A.
Germanic, Slavic & Semitic

Slavic linguistics, syntax, discourse, language pedagogy.

Claudine Michel, Ph.D.
Black Studies

Religion, moral development, multicultural education, educational television and children's literature.

Marianne Mithun, Ph.D.
Linguistics

Morphology, language change, discourse and grammar, language universals, American Indian linguistics, Austronesian linguistics.

Jason Raley, Ph.D.
Education

Culture, learning, and social interaction; writing and literacy; teacher learning in networks and communities; qualitative research methods and interaction analysis.

Evelyn Reder Wade, Ph.D.
Germanic, Slavic & Semitic

Foreign language acquisition, content-based language learning, culture in the language classroom, language teaching theory and methodology, technology in the language classroom.

Sara Wheeler, M.A.
Germanic, Slavic & Semitic

Hebrew linguistics, syntax, discourse, language pedagogy, modern Israeli literature.

 

 
     
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