Lisa Matthewson, PhD
Professor
Endangered languages, semantics, Salish languages, Tsimshianic languages, Austronesian languages
Judith Plessis
Executive Director Emerita of Continuing Studies
Leadership in university lifelong learning, Second language acquisition for adults, Authorship by women filmmakers (Margarethe von Trotta, Marguerite Duras, Maya Deren)
Stefka Marinova-Todd, EdD
Associate Professor
Bilingualism, second language acquisition, language development, literacy, ELL children, children at risk of language difficulties, language abilities of bilingual children with autism (ASD)
Kedrick James
Instructor
Secondary education, literacy, teacher education, multimodal arts, spoken word, poetry, writing assessment, data feeds, automated language generators, language filters, search engines, spam email, vinyl media, information environments, remixing, noise, cultural recycling
Dr. Christine Schreyer, PhD Anthropology
Associate Professor
endangered languages, language revitalization and documentation, constructed languages, language planning, language policy, Indigenous languages, land planning, knowledge mobilization, community-engaged research,
Patrick Moore
Associate Professor
Anthropological linguistics, languages of North America, sub-Arctic ethnography, ethno-history, gender
Stefan Dollinger, PhD
Associate Professor
English language, World Englishes, Canadian English, dialectology, sociolinguistics, multilingualism, historical linguistics, lexicography, lexicology, dictionaries, Oxford English Dictionary, World English, language variation and change, orthography, Canada, North America, English, American English, sociolinguistics, society and language, dialects, identity, history of English, English as a Lingua Franca, German language, Austrian German, German German.
Carla Hudson Kam, PhD
Professor & Canada Research Chair
Language development, second language acquisition, critical periods for learning, input and language learning, language learning and language change, children’s books
Gunnar Hansson
Associate Professor
Phonetics (speech sounds), phonology (sound patterns, sound systems), language change, linguistic relationships (language families), reconstruction of proto-languages, language contact, Scandinavian languages (esp. Icelandic, Faroese, Swedish), Athabaskan (Dene) languages, Saami (Lapp) languages, Russian
Dr. Luisa Canuto, PhD
Assistant Professor of Teaching
Second Language Acquisition, Service-Learning, Experiential Education, Language Education,
Jon Beasley-Murray, PhD in Literature (Duke)
Associate Professor, Hispanic Studies; Chair, Latin American Studies Program
Latin America, Argentina, Chile, Peru, Venezuela, Central America, Mexico, politics, political theory, cultural studies, literature, culture, film, history, the Left, revolution, revolutionary movements, populism, civil society, affect, habit, multitude, posthegemony, educational technology, blogs, Wikipedia
Lee Gunderson, PhD
Professor
Department Head, pro tem
Language, ESL, reading, immigrant students, academic achievement
Patricia Duff, PhD
Professor
Applied linguistics and sociolinguistics, multilingualism and work, sociocultural and sociopolitical aspects of languages in education
Duanduan Li, Ed.D
Associate Professor
Chinese linguistics, applied linguistics, sociolinguistics, Chinese language and culture, second language acquisition, language socialization, Chinese heritage language education, bilingualism and multilingualism
Rob Tierney, PhD
Professor
Global epistemologies and cross-cultural research in education and literacy, social science research, diversity, social justice, equity, indigenous matters, digital literacies, nature of literacy, meaning making, reading comprehension, reading-writing relationships, teaching, learning, educational assessment, teacher education
Molly Babel, PhD
Associate Professor
Speech, language change, accommodation, voice, language stereotypes, sound change, sociolinguistics, phonetics, speech styles, dialects of English, language variation, speech intelligibility
Annette Henry, PhD
Professor, David Lam Chair in Multicultural Education
Race, gender, language, culture in education, equity and diversity
Mark Turin, PhD
Associate Professor
Himalaya, Nepal, First Nations, indigenous, anthropology, linguistics, endangered languages, digital, archives, museums, Bhutan, India, Tibet, technology
Darko Odic, PhD
Assistant Professor
Cognitive development, language acquisition, mathematics, perception of time and space, psychophysics, visual cognition, preschoolers, confidence, statistics
Scott Douglas, PhD
Associate Professor
Teaching English as an Additional Language (TEAL), Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL), English Language Teaching (ELT), Curriculum and Materials Design, English for Academic Purposes (EAP), English Language Learning (ELL), Short-Term Study Abroad