Sarah Fagan

Sarah Fagan, Ph.D.

Title/Position
DEO, Linguistics
Professor
Sarah Fagan’s research and teaching interests include Germanic linguistics, theoretical linguistics, and the German language.
Jill Beckman

Jill Beckman, Ph.D.

Title/Position
Associate Professor
Honors Advisor
Jen Brown

Jennifer Brown, Ph.D.

Title/Position
Associate Professor of Instruction
Marcin Dadan

Marcin Dadan, Ph.D.

Title/Position
Visiting Assistant Professor
Marcin Dadan is a syntactician with interest in comparative historical syntax, especially morpho-syntactic and semantic change and variation, but also generative typology, fieldwork, and language acquisition.
Elena Gavruseva

Elena Gavruseva, Ph.D.

Title/Position
Associate Professor
Becky Gonzalez

Becky Gonzalez, Ph.D.

Title/Position
Assistant Professor
Director, Multilingual Syntax Lab
Becky Gonzalez is a linguist specializing in multilingual language acquisition. She works in the area of syntax, with a focus on argument structure, and is especially interested in the factors (linguistic and non-linguistic) that influence linguistic outcomes in different types of multilinguals. Her research combines theoretical and experimental approaches and she works predominantly with speakers of Spanish, Portuguese, and English.
Emilie Destruel

Emilie Maurel-Destruel, Ph.D.

Title/Position
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Associate Professor
Emilie Maurel-Destruel's primary research explores the semantic and pragmatic underpinnings of sentence structure variation and how the principles that govern this variation are manifested in French, but also across languages. Emilie also has research interests in second language acquisition and bilingualism, studying the acquisition of pragmatic inferences and sentence structure variation in L2 learners and bilinguals.
Bob McMurrary

Bob McMurray, Ph.D.

Title/Position
Professor
Bob McMurray studies speech perception, word recognition, word learning and neuroscience in children, adults, and impaired populations using linguistic analysis, eye-tracking, neuroscience techniques and computational models.
Melissa Meisterheim official portrait

Melissa Meisterheim, Ph.D.

Title/Position
Director of English as a Second Language Programs
Associate Professor of Instruction
Melissa Meisterheim is the Director of English as a Second Language Programs as well as an Associate Professor of Instruction. Her interests include second language acquisition of vocabulary as well as curriculum design.
Jerzy Rubach

Jerzy Rubach, Ph.D.

Title/Position
Professor
Christine Shea

Christine Shea, Ph.D.

Title/Position
Director of Graduate Studies
Associate Professor
Christine Shea is interested in how age, experience and the native language sound system interact with the perception and production of a second language. Adult second language learners approach their second language with a first language already in place. She investigates how experience with a previously acquired language affects the way learners perceive and produce a second (or third) language.