Language / Linguistics

Kyle Frackman, PhD

Kyle Frackman, PhD

Associate Professor

German, Germany, Austria, Scandinavia, Sweden, Finland, literature, film, cinema, theory, cultural studies, gender, sexuality, social justice, teaching, East Germany

Rose-Marie Déchaine

Associate Professor

Native American languages, Algonquian language family, Cree, Blackfoot, Ojibwe, French / English bilingualism policy, formal linguistics, generative grammar (Chomsky), West African languages (Niger-Congo, Yoruba, Igbo, Edo), Nigerian languages, literacy vs. oralcy, language planning re: French, Indigenous languages

Henry Davis, PhD

Professor

First Nations languages, Salish languages, language survival, language education, Wakashan languages

Sima Godfrey, MA

Associate Professor, French

French culture, fashion and French culture, North American reception of French culture, French, teaching French in Canada and U.S., French literature, European Studies

Thomas Salumets, PhD

Associate Professor

German and Estonian, theory, figurational sociology and Norbert Elias

Patricia A. Shaw

Patricia A. Shaw

Professor

Founding Chair, First Nations and Endangered Languages Program

First Nations languages, endangered languages, language revitalization, community capacity-building for language sustainability, archival research for endangered Aboriginal languages

Monique Bournot-Trites, BA, MA, PhD

Associate Professor

Second language acquisition, French as a second language, French immersion, Core French, French schools, learning content in second language, language assessment, second language literacy (reading especially, intecultural competence, teacher education in second language

Ian Hill, PhD

Assistant Professor

Rhetoric, persuasion, argumentation, technology, weapons, interrogation, political economy, war rhetoric, conflict rhetoric, dissent, mass movements

Margot Leigh Butler

Academic Director

Vancouver Downtown Eastside, community education, free community education with Downtown Eastside residents who experience marginalization, poverty, addictions and education, community-university relationships, representation, cultural studies, critical and creative pedagogy, interdisciplinarity, site-specific art, collectives, implicatedness, activism

Bryan Gick

Professor

Phonetics, speech science, speech motor control, speech perception, multimodal perception, tactile perception, ultrasound imaging of speech, sounds of the world’s languages

Janet Werker

Janet Werker

Professor and Canada Research Chair

Infancy, speech perception, early language acquisition, bilingualism, baby development, infant development

Andrew Scales

Academic Director, English Language Institute

English Language teaching and learning, English language school administration

Paul G. Stanwood

Professor Emeritus

English Renaissance and 17th century literature, English Reformation and church history, Edmund Spenser, Richard Hooker, John Donne, The Metaphysical Poets, John Milton, early modern devotional poetry and prose, T.S. Eliot, opera

Eva-Marie Kroller, PhD

Professor

Canadian literature, comparative literature, travel writing, cultural semiotics (for example, the new Canadian embassy in Berlin)

Joseph P. Stemberger

Professor

Linguistics, phonology, morphology, psycholinguistics, slips of the tongue, first language acquisition, child language

Laurel J. Brinton

Laurel J. Brinton

Professor

Modern English grammar, history of the English language, English usage, English dictionaries, pragmatics of English,
discourse markers, language change, computers and language study

Lisa Matthewson, PhD

Professor

Endangered languages, semantics, Salish languages, Tsimshianic languages, Austronesian languages

Judith Plessis

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