steering committee
affiliated faculty
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.
Mary Bucholtz, Ph.D. (Linguistics), sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, language and gender, African American English, discourse.
Dorothy Chun, Ph.D. (Germanic, Slavic & Semitic, Director of Applied Linguistics Emphasis), Second language acquisition, first, the acquisition of second language phonology and intonation, and second, the process of reading and vocabulary acquisition in a second language.
Jenny Cook-Gumperz, Ph.D. (Education), Sociology of Education; sociolinguistics and literacy; gender socialization; Language Interaction and Social Organization.
Jan Frodesen, Ph.D. (Linguistics, Director of ESL Program), Second language writing, pedagogical grammar, teacher education.
Carol Genetti, Ph.D. (Linguistics, Associate Dean, Humanities and Fine Arts), Tibeto-Burman linguistics, phonology, syntax, language contact, language change.
Judith Green, Ph.D. (Education), Ethnography; discourse processes in reading in educational settings; constructing literate communities within classrooms); language interaction and social organization (LISO).
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.
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, Director of Chinese Language Program), 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.
Cornelia Becher, Ph.D. (Germanic, Slavic & Semitic, Director of German Language Program), 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.
Carol Dixon, Ph.D. (Education), Constructing literacy in classrooms; second language instruction, ethnography and discourse processes in classrooms, language interaction and social organization (LISO).
John DuBois, Ph.D. (Linguistics), Discourse, dialogic syntax, complex adaptive linguistics, linguistic anthropology, Mayan linguistics.
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.
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.
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.
Karen Lunsford, Ph.D. (Writing), Qualitative/ethnographic studies, business writing, technical writing, scientific writing, argumentation, knowledge ecologies, collaboration, multimedia communication
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), Moral development among African-American women and youth, multicultural/racial education, children's literature and educational television.
Marianne Mithun, Ph.D. (Linguistics), Morphology, language change, discourse and grammar, language universals, American Indian linguistics, Austronesian linguistics.
Giorgio Perissinotto, Ph.D. (Spanish & Portuguese), Hispanic linguistics: history of the language, dialectology, Mexican Spanish, California Spanish.
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.
Eduardo Raposo, Ph.D. (Spanish & Portuguese), Comparative Romance grammar; generative syntax; semantics; Spanish and Portuguese linguistics.
Sandra Thompson, Ph.D. (Linguistics), Discourse and grammar, language universals, syntax, Chinese linguistics.
Sara Wheeler, MA (Germanic, Slavic and Semitic Studies), Hebrew linguistics, syntax, discourse, language pedagogy, modern Israeli literature.
Don Zimmerman, Ph.D. (Sociology), Talk in institutional settings; conversation analysis, social life of very young children.