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Core Faculty
Amit Almor
Associate Professor (Psychology)
Ph.D., Brown University, 1995
Psycholinguistics and neurolinguistics, human reasoning.
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Anne Bezuidenhout

Associate Professor (Philosophy)
Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1990
Philosophy of language, pragmatics, relevance theory, philosophy of mind, epistemology, cognitive science.
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Elaine Chun

Assistant Professor (English)
Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, 2007
Sociolinguistics, stylization, language and race, class, and gender, Asian American and multiethnic communities in the U.S.

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Dorothy Disterheft
Associate Professor (English)
Ph.D., University of California-Los Angeles, 1977
Historical linguistics, Indo-European linguistics (esp. Celtic).
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Stanley Dubinsky
Professor (English)
Ph.D., Cornell University, 1985
Linguistic theory, syntax, semantics.
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Janina Fenigsen
Assistant Professor (Anthropology)
Ph.D., Brandeis University, 2000
Linguistic anthropology, political economy of language, linguistic ideologies, and creole languages.
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Kurt Goblirsch
Professor (Languages, Literatures, and Cultures; German)
Ph.D.,University of Minnesota, 1990
Comparative Germanic linguistics (German, Scandinavian, English), historical phonology, dialectology.
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D. Eric Holt

Associate Professor (Languages, Literatures, and Cultures; Spanish)
Ph.D., Georgetown University, 1997
Phonology, historical linguistics, dialectology, Spanish and Portuguese linguistics.
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Lara Lomicka
Associate Professor (Languages, Literatures, and Cultures; French)
Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University, 2001
Foreign language acquisition theory, research, and pedagogy.
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Robin Morris
PROGRAM DIRECTOR
Professor (Psychology)
Ph.D., University of Massachusetts, 1990
Language processing in reading, especially word recognition and lexical access issues.
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Assistant Professor (Anthropology)
Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 2002
Linguistic anthropology, The Anthropology/Sociology of Childhood, Political Economy of Languages
Alexandra Rowe
Lecturer (Director, English Programs for Internationals)
Ph.D., University of South Carolina, 1990
L2 writing, EPI administration.
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Barbara Schulz
Assisant Professor (English)
Ph.D., Second Language Acquisition, University of Hawai‘i at Manoa, 2006
Second language acquisition, linguistic theory, sentence processing, syntax.
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Tracey Weldon
GRADUATE DIRECTOR
Associate Professor (English)
Ph.D., The Ohio State University, 1998
Sociolinguistics, morpho-syntactic variation.
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Consulting Faculty
Junko Baba
Associate Professor (Languages, Literatures, and Cultures; Japanese)
Ph.D., University of Texas, Austin, 1996
Sociolinguistics, pragmatics, applied linguistics, Japanese.
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Lara Ducate
Assistant Professor (Languages, Literatures, and Cultures; German)
Ph.D., University of Texas, Austin, 2003
Sociocultural Theory, discourse analysis, computer-mediated communication, Mikhail Bakhtin.
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Annie Duménil
Assistant Professor (Languages, Literatures, and Cultures; French)
Ph.D., University of South Carolina, 1983
French linguistics, language teaching.
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Instructor (Languages, Literatures, and Cultures; Russian)
Ph.D., University of Noth Carolina, 2001
Slavic linguistics; sociolinguistics, language standardization, language birth and death ; use of new technologies in language instruction.


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Elaine Frank
Associate Professor (Communication Sciences and Disorders)
Ph.D., University of South Carolina, 1988
Neurolinguistic language disorders, dementia, aphasia, traumatic brain injury.
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Scott Gwara
Professor (English)
Ph.D., University of Toronto, 1993
Bilingualism in pre-conquest England, Old English and Anglo-Latin philology.
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Associate Professor (Instruction and Teacher Education)
Ph.D., Ohio State University, 1995
(a) Collaboration with teacher researchers to explore home and community language and literacies; issues of culture, race, and language; and consideration of findings as they relate to transformation in schools and society, and (b) the experiences of new teachers as they negotiate within and beyond the status quo.
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Hiram McDade
Associate Professor (Communication Sciences and Disorders)
Ph.D., University of Tenneesee, 1976
Acoustic measurement, child language development.
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Visiting Faculty

Ann Marrano
Fall 2007
Ph.D., Georgetown University, 1997
Syntactic theory, Spanish linguistics
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Robert Moonan
Fall 2007
Ph.D., University of South Carolina, 2007
Sociolinguistics, discourse analysis
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Mila Tasseva
Fall 2007
Ph.D., University of South Carolina, 2006
Second language acquisition , syntactic theory
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Emeritus Faculty

Greta Little
Professor Emeritus (English)
Ph.D., University of North Carolina, 1974
Children's literature, applied linguistics, and TEFL.
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Michael Montgomery
Professor Emeritus (English)
Ph.D., University of Florida, 1979
Language variation, history of American English, varieties of Southern American English, Hiberno-English and Scots, and second language acquisition.
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Bruce Pearson

Professor Emeritus (English)
Ph.D., University of California Los Angeles, 1972
History and methodology of linguistics, semantics, morphology, and construction of grammars of languages especially of Delaware, Shawnee, and Wyandotte.


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Carol Myers-Scotton
Professor Emeritus (English)
Ph.D., University Wisconsin, Madison, 1967
Grammatical aspects of language contact phenomena, especially codeswitching; Bilingualism; Language in society

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Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1953
French linguistics including Old French, syntax, phonology.
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