Consulting Faculty

Junko Baba, babaj@mailbox.sc.edu
Associate Professor (Languages, Literatures, and Cultures; Japanese)
Ph.D., University of Texas, Austin, 1996
Interests: Sociolinguistics, pragmatics, applied linguistics, Japanese

Duncan Buell, buell@cse.sc.edu
Professor (Department of Computer Science and Engineering; Digital Humanities)
Ph.D., Mathematics, University of Illinois, 1976
Interests: Text and language processing, document abstraction, the semantic web

Dirk den Ouden, denouden@sc.edu
Assistant Professor; Director, Neurolinguistics Laboratory (Communication Sciences and Disorders)
Ph.D., University of Groningen (The Netherlands), 2002
Interests: Neural correlates of language representation and use; aphasia, stroke; phonology, apraxia of speech; syntax, verbs, sentence production/processing; functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI); electroencephalograhy (EEG); transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS)

Lara Ducate, ducate@mailbox.sc.edu
Associate Professor (Languages, Literatures, and Cultures; German)
Ph.D., University of Texas, Austin, 2003
Interests: Sociocultural Theory, discourse analysis, computer-mediated communication, Mikhail Bakhtin

Annie Dumenil, dumanila@mailbox.sc.edu
Assistant Professor (Languages, Literatures, and Cultures; French)
Ph.D., University of South Carolina, 1983
Interests: French linguistics, language teaching

Fernanda Ferreira, ferreirf@mailbox.sc.edu
Professor (Psychology)
Ph.D., University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1988
Interests: Psycholinguistics: parsing, reanalysis, and repair; integration of language and vision; choices in language production

Denise A. Finneran, dfinneran@sc.edu
Assistant Professor (Communication Sciences and Disorders)
Ph.D., Purdue University, 2008
Director, Language Development Research Laboratory
Interests: Language development and disorders in young children

Dan Fogerty , fogerty@sc.edu
Assistant Professor(Communication Sciences and Disorders)
Ph.D., Indiana University, (Majors: Speech and Hearing Science, Cognitive Science), 2010
Interests: The interaction between perceptual processing of acoustic-phonetic speech cues and cognitive processing of higher-level linguistic information, and the impact of dialect and native language exposure to such processes; acoustic phonetics, speech perception, and spoken word recognition for normal and impaired populations.

Curtis Ford, cford@sc.edu
Instructor (Languages, Literatures, and Cultures; Russian)
Ph.D., University of North Carolina, 2001
Interests: Slavic linguistics; sociolinguistics, language standardization, language birth and death; use of new technologies in language instruction

Elaine Frank, efrank@mailbox.sc.edu
Associate Professor and Chair (Communication Sciences and Disorders)
Ph.D., University of South Carolina, 1988
Interests: Neurolinguistic language disorders, dementia, aphasia, traumatic brain injury

Julius Fridriksson, fridriks@mailbox.sc.edu
Associate Professor (Communication Sciences and Disorders)
Ph.D., University of Arizona, 2001
Interests: Neurogenic communication disorders, neuroimaging in aphasia, treatment of aphasia

Scott Gwara, gwaras@mailbox.sc.edu
Professor (English)
Ph.D., University of Toronto, 1993
Interests: Bilingualism in pre-conquest England, Old English and Anglo-Latin philology

John M. Henderson, john.henderson@sc.edu Professor and Chair (Psychology) Ph.D., University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1988 Interests: Psycholinguistics, particularly the integration of language and vision; eye movements in reading and as a measure of language processing; language in the brain as revealed by fMRI and ERPs.

Lara Lomicka Anderson, lomicka@sc.edu
Associate Profesor (Languages, Literatures, and Cultures; French)
Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University, 2001
Interests: CALL (computer –assisted language learning), intercultural learning and teaching, telecollaborative learning environments, and teacher education.

Susi Long, slong@mailbox.sc.edu
Associate Professor (Instruction and Education)
Ph.D., Ohio State University, 1995
Interests: (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.

Hiram McDade, hmcdade@mailbox.sc.edu
Associate Professor and Graduate Director (Communication Sciences and Disorders)
Ph.D., University of Tenneesee, 1976
Interests: Acoustic measurement, child language development

Mila Tasseva, tassevak@mailbox.sc.edu
Ph.D., University of South Carolina, 2006
Interests: Second language acquisition, syntactic theory