executive committee
affiliated faculty
Mary Bucholtz, Ph.D. (Linguistics), Sociocultural linguistics; language and youth; language, gender, and sexuality; African American English; Chicano and Mexican Spanish; language and scientific practice.
Dorothy Chun, Ph.D. (Germanic, Slavic & Semitic, Director of Applied Linguistics Emphasis), Second language acquisition, L2 phonology and intonation, L2 reading and vocabulary acquisition, computer-assisted language learning.
Jan Frodesen, Ph.D. (Linguistics, Director of ESL Program), Second language writing, pedagogical grammar, teacher education.
Jin Sook Lee, Ph.D. (Education), Second language acquisition with a focus on ESL learners, foreign language education, bilingualism, heritage language maintenance, and interlanguage pragmatics.
Karen Lunsford, Ph.D. (Writing Program), Qualitative/ethnographic studies, business writing, technical writing, scientific writing, argumentation, knowledge ecologies, collaboration, multimedia communication.
Laura Marqués-Pascual, Ph.D. (Spanish & Portuguese, Director of Spanish and Portuguese Language Programs), Second language acquisition, language teaching methods and pedagogy, Spanish as a heritage language.
Viola Miglio, Ph.D. (Spanish & Portuguese), Phonology of Spanish and Romance languages, theoretical phonology, Optimality Theory, phonetics, language change.
Jean Schultz, Ph.D. (French & Italian, Director of French Language Program), Foreign language acquisition; cognitive aspects of foreign language learning; transition from language to literature study; foreign language writing.
Hsiao-jung Yu, Ph.D. (East Asian Languages & Cultural Studies), Historical Chinese linguistics (grammar and lexicon), applied linguistics (language teaching theory and methodology, context and culture in language learning, and the use of computers in teaching foreign languages.
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.
Cornelia Becher, Ph.D. (Germanic, Slavic & Semitic), Applied linguistics, German for reading knowledge, history of the German language, cultural studies, 18th- through 20th-century German literature.
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.
Carol Dixon, Ph.D. (Education), Constructing literacy in classrooms; second language instruction, ethnography and discourse processes in classrooms, language interaction and social organization (LISO).
Richard Durán, 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.
Sandra Thompson, Ph.D. (Linguistics), Interaction and grammar, language universals and typology, functional syntax, Chinese and Japanese linguistics.
Evelyn Reder Wade, Ph.D. (Germanic, Slavic and Semitic Studies), 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 and Semitic Studies), Hebrew linguistics, syntax, discourse, language pedagogy, modern Israeli literature.
Stefanie Wulff, Ph.D. (Linguistics), Corpus linguistics, corpora and cognition, second/foreign language acquisition, construction grammar.