Linguistics Faculty

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Baertsch, Karen S., Associate Professor, Ph.D., Indiana University, 2002. Phonology, phonetics, historical linguistics, dialects, Central Asian languages.

Lakshmanan, Usha, Professor, Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1989; 1990. First and second language acquisition, psycholinguistics, syntactic theory, Tamil syntax.

Martin, Katherine I., Associate Professor, Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh, 2015. Second language acquisition, reading and literacy, vocabulary learning, morphological awareness, crosslinguistic transfer, English as a Second Language.

McCrocklin, Shannon, Associate Professor, Ph.D., Iowa State University, 2014. Second language phonology and pronunciation.

Olsen, Michael Lee, Assistant Professor of Practice, Ph.D., University of Georgia, 2021. Sociolinguistics, corpus-assisted discourse analysis.

Olsen, Rachel, Assistant Professor of Practice, Ph.D., University of Georgia, 2022. Social/emotional phonetics, second language composition/grammar.

Punske, Jeffrey, Associate Professor, Ph.D., University of Arizona, 2012. Theoretical syntax, morphology, and semantics.

Toyosaki, Satoshi, Professor, Ph.D., Southern Illinois University Carbondale, 2005. Intercultural communication, ethnography of communication, discourse analysis.

Wu, Shu-Ling, Associate Professor, Ph.D., University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2011. Second language acquisition, applied cognitive linguistics, Chinese linguistics & literature, L2/FL pedagogy.

Emeriti Faculty

Angelis, Paul, Associate Professor, Emeritus, Ph.D., Georgetown University, 1968; 1981.

Brutten, Sheila, Associate Professor, Emerita, M.A., Southern Illinois University Carbondale, 1965; 1968.

Dotson, John E., Professor, Emeritus, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, 1969.

Friedenberg, Joan, Professor, Emerita, Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1979; 1994.

Gilbert, Glenn G., Professor, Emeritus, Ph.D., Harvard University, 1963; 1970.

Halliday, Laura J., Clinical Professor, Emerita, Ph.D., Southern Illinois University, 2005.

Montavon, Mary V., Lecturer, Emerita, Ph.D., University of Illinois, 2003.

Perkins, Kyle, Professor, Emeritus, Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1976; 1976.