Faculty

Lori Altmann, Ph.D.
email
Lori Altmann (Ph.D. University of Southern California) is a linguist in the department of  Communication Sciences and Disorders. Her research interest lies in the field of Neurogenics.

Theresa A. Antes, Ph.D.
email / homepage
Theresa Antes (Ph.D. Cornell) is a linguist in the Romance Languages and Literatures department. Her research and teaching interests focus on Second Language Acquisition, Pedagogy, and French Linguistics.

Helene Blondeau, Ph.D.
email / homepage
Helene Blondeau (Ph.D. Montreal) is a linguist in the Romance Languages and Literatures department. As a sociolinguist, her research interests encompass language variation and change as well as language contact and bilingualism. Her current research focuses on linguistic change in varieties of Canadian French.

Diana Boxer, Ph.D.
email / homepage
Diana Boxer (Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania) is a linguist in the department of Linguistics. Her research interests encompass discourse analysis and pragmatics, second language acquisition, and sociolinguistics.

Joaquim Camps, Ph.D.
email
Joaquim Camps (Ph.D. Georgetown) is a linguist in the department of Romance Languages and Literatures and coordinator of first year Spanish.  He specializes in second language acquisition.

H. Wind Cowles, Ph.D.
email / homepage
Wind Cowles (Ph.D. University of California, San Diego) is a linguist with an additional affiliation at the McKnight Brain Institute. She is also the coordinator for LIN 3010: Intro to Linguistics. Her research focuses on the interaction of information structure and language comprehension and production. She is currently doing research on the effects of topic and focus on a speaker's choice of syntactic structure, and on how discourse structure effects the processing of pronouns and other co-referential nouns.

Takako Egi, Ph.D.
email
Takako Egi (Ph.D. Georgetown University) is a linguist in the Department of
African and Asian Languages and Literatures and the language coordinator for
the Japanese program. Her research and teaching interests focus on second
language acquisition, Teaching Japanese as a foreign language, and research
methodology.

James Essegbey, Ph.D.
email
James Essegbey (Ph.D. Leiden University) is a linguist in the Department of
African and Asian Languages and Literatures. He is interested in descriptive, documentary and theoretical linguistics, especially in the domain of syntax, semantics and pragmatics; contact linguistics; language and culture; Kwa languages of West Africa, especially Gbe (i.e. Ewe, Gen, Aja and Fon), Akan, and Ghana-Togo Mountain languages, and creole studies. Lately, he has been working on the influence of the Gbe languages on Suriname creoles, and, more recently, the description and documentation of Nyangbo, one of the Ghana-Togo Mountain languages.

Hana Filip, Ph.D.
email / homepage
Hana Filip (Ph.D. University of California at Berkeley) is a linguist in the Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies and the Center for European Studies. Her main area of specialization is semantics. Other areas of her research include pragmatics, syntax-semantics interface, typology, morphology, psycholinguistics and computational linguistics. Also, she is the Associate Editor of the  "Journal of Slavic Linguistics,"
(see also http://www.slavica.com/jsl/).

Atiqa Hachimi, Ph.D.
email
Atiqa Hachimi  (Ph.D. University of Hawaii at Manoa) is a linguist in the department of African and Asian Languages and Literatures, where she acts as the undergraduate advisor and program coordinator of Arabic. 
Her primary research interests include Arabic sociolinguistics, language and gender, language and dialect contact and change in complex multilingual settings, particularly in North Africa.  Her secondary research interests include the history of Arabic, Arabic phonetics and phonology and teaching Arabic as a foreign language.  Her current research focuses on the impact of migration on the evolution of the vernacular of Casablanca, Morocco.

M.J. Hardman, Ph.D.
email / homepage
M.J. Hardman (Ph.D. Stanford University) is an anthropological linguist. Her current interests include language and cultures, field methods, Jaqi languages, languages and gender, and language and violence.

Galia Hatav, Ph.D.
email / homepage
Galia Hatav (Ph.D. Tel Aviv University) is the undergraduate director and a specialist in semantics. Her current interests focus on conditional semantics and biblical Hebrew.

Brent Henderson, Ph.D.
email / homepage
Brent Henderson (Ph.D. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) is a linguist whose primary research interests include syntactic theory, case and agreement, and Bantu languages. His other interests include Semitic languages and the acquisition of syntax.

Edith Kaan, Ph.D.
email / homepage
Edith Kaan (Ph.D. University of Groningen, The Netherlands) is a linguist with an additional affiliation at the McKnight Brain Institute. Her specialization is language processing and the brain. She focuses on sentence-level processing and conducts experiments using various behavioral and brain imaging techniques (event-related brain potentials, fMRI).

Virginia LoCastro, Ph.D.
email / homepage
Virginia LoCastro (Ph.D. Lancaster, UK) is a sociolinguist and coordinator of LIN 2000, Language: Human Perspectives. She is also the Director of the Academic Written English Program and the Academic Spoken English Program. Her current interests include discourse and pragmatics, second language acquisition and language learning, and academic literacy.

Gillian Lord, Ph.D.
email / homepage
Gillian Lord (Ph.D. Pennsylvania State University) is a linguist in the department of Romance Languages and Literatures. Her teaching and research interests include Spanish linguistics, second language acquisition, acquisition of phonetics and phonology, and pedagogy.

Masangu Matondo, Ph.D.
email / homepage
Masangu Mantondo (Ph.D. University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)) is a linguist in Department of African and Asian Languages and Literatures. He is interested in both descriptive as well as theoretical linguistics. In particular, his research is anchored in Phonetics (e.g. the phonetic realization of tone in Kisukuma and other Bantu languages), Phonology and Morphology of African languages and particularly Bantu languages. He is also interested in historical linguistics, comparative Bantu studies and the interaction of language and society in Africa.

Fiona McLaughlin, Ph.D.
email / homepage
Fiona McLaughlin (Ph.D. University of Texas at Austin) is a linguist who is also a member of the Department of African and Asian Languages and Literatures. Her teaching and research involve African languages, phonology, morophology, and sociolinguistics.

D. Gary Miller, Ph.D.
email / homepage
Gary Miller (Ph.D. Harvard University) has been graduate director of Linguistics for 2002-2003. His current teaching and research interests are morphological theory; the syntactic history of Latin, Romance, and English; nonfinite structures; and etymology.

Andrea Pham, Ph.D.
email
Andrea Pham (Ph.D. University of Toronto) is a linguist in the department of African and Asian Languages and Literatures. Her research interests include phonology and second language acquistion.

David Pharies, Ph.D.
email / homepage
David Phaires (Ph.D. University of California at Berkeley) is chair of the department of Romance Languages and Literatures. His interests include Spanish and Romance linguistics and historical linguistics.

Eric Potsdam, Ph.D.
email / homepage
Eric Potsdam (Ph.D. University of California at Santa Cruz) is a linguist who specializes in syntax. His current research project is Variation in Control Structures, funded by the National Science Foundation. Other teaching and research interests include syntactic theory and the Austronesian language Malagasy.

Roger Thompson, Ph.D.
email / homepage
Roger Thompson (Ph.D. University of Texas at Austin) is a linguist who is also a member of the English Department. He is director of the graduate certificate in TESL. His current interests are language contact, second language acquisition, computer assisted instruction, TESL, and interaction and English structure.

Ratree Wayland, Ph.D.
email / homepage
Ratree Wayland (Ph.D. Cornell University). Her teaching and research focus on acoustic phonetics, second language acquisition, comparative historical linguistics, south east Asian languages (Laotian, Thai, Khmer), and acquisition of tones by non-native speakers of tonal languages. Dr. Wayland is also the Graduate Coordinator in Linguistics.

Ann Wehmeyer, Ph.D.
email / homepage
Ann Wehmeyer (Ph.D. University of Michigan) is chair of the Department of African and Asian Languages and Literatures. Her current interests involve Japanese language and culture, the history of linguistics, language in Japanese society, and the origins of linguistics in Japan.

Caroline Wiltshire, Ph.D.
email / homepage
Caroline Wiltshire (Ph.D. University of Chicago) is the Director of Linguistics. Her current teaching and research involve phonological theory, word structure, phrasal syllabification, expressive language, and Dravidian and Romance language phonology.

>> Top