Faculty
Gary Baker
Academic Professional, Department of Romance Languages; Assistant Director, Language Resource Center
Ph.D., University of Florida
Office: 104 Gilbert Hall
Phone: 706-542-0685
E-mail: gkbaker@uga.edu
Areas of interest: Phonetics, phonology
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Dezso Benedek
Associate Professor, Department of Comparative Literature
Ph.D., Pennsylvania State university
Office: 146 Joseph E. Brown Hall
Phone: 706-542-8997
E-mail: cmsdezso@uga.edu
Areas of interest: Languages of the world, Asian literature, world mythology, literature and cultural anthropology, comparative folklore |
Brent Berlin
Graham Perdue Professor of Anthropology; Director, Latin American and Carribean Institute
Ph.D., Stanford University
Office: G34 Baldwin Hall
Phone: 706-542-1452
E-mail: obberlin@uga.edu
Areas of interest: Language evolution, cognitive anthropology, ethnobiology |
Sarah Blackwell
Associate Professor, Department of Romance Languages
Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh
Office: 237 Gilbert Hall
Phone: 706-542-3151
E-mail: blackwel@uga.edu
Areas of interest: Spanish linguistics, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, foreign language teaching and learning/acquisition |
Renate Born
Associate Professor, Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages
Ph.D., Cornell University
Office: 208 Joseph E. Brown Hall
Phone: 706-542-2287
E-mail: rborn@uga.edu
Areas of interest: German-American language islands, dialectology and language variation, historical Germanic linguistics, morphology |
Misha Cahnmann Taylor
Assistant Professor, Department of Language and Literacy Education
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
Office: 125 Aderhold Hall
Phone: 706-583-8127
E-mail: cahnmann@.uga.edu
Areas of interest: Relationship between language, culture, literacy, and power; multicultural education and multilingual classrooms; bilingual education policy and practice |
Rebecca Callahan
Assistant Professor, Department of Language and Literacy Education
Ph.D., University of California, Davis
Office: 125 Aderhold Hall
Phone: 706-542-1543
E-mail: rmcallah@uga.edu
Areas of interest: Second language acquisition, language policy, linguistic minority students in US schools, bilingual education, sociology of education, immigration theory |
Laurent Cammarata
Assistant Professor, Department of Language and Literacy Education
Ph.D., University of Minnesota
Office: 309L Aderhold Hall
Phone: 706-542-4209
E-mail: lc@uga.edu
Areas of interest: Content-based instruction and other innovative approaches to foreign language curriculum design, teacher education and professional development, technology-enhanced language learning, critical pedagogy, phenomenology, and issues related to validation of knowledge claims in human science. |
Liang Chen
Assistant Professor, Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders
Ph.D., University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Office:
Phone: 706-542-4566
E-mail: chen@uga.edu
Areas of interest: Language development and disorders, bilingualism, clinical and applied linguistics |
Michael A. Covington
Senior Research Scientist and Associate Director, Artificial Intelligence Center; Adjunct Professor of Computer Science
Ph.D., Yale University
Office: 111 Boyd Graduate Studies
Phone: 706-542-0358
E-mail: mc@uga.edu
Areas of interest: Computer analysis of speech for psychological research, natural language processing, psycholinguistics, computational linguistics, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and logic programming |
Frederic T. Dolezal
Associate Professor, Department of English
Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Office: 104 Park Hall
Phone: 706-542-2256
E-mail: fdolezal@room343.english.uga.edu
Areas of interest: Literary lexicography and the history of linguistic semantics and philosophical grammars |
Charles Clay Doyle
Associate Professor, Department of English
Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin
Office: 214 Park Hall
Phone: 706-542-0543
E-mail: cdoyle@uga.edu
Areas of interest: Proverbs and idioms; slang; Southern American English; history of English |
Viktoria Driagina-Hasko
Assistant Professor, Department of Language and Literacy Education
Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University
Office: 125G Aderhold Hall
Phone: 706-542-4025
E-mail: driagina@uga.edu
Areas of interest: Second/ foreign language acquisition and instructed learning, computer-assisted language learning and teaching, language and cognition, learner corpus analysis. |
Jonathan Evans
Associate Professor, Department of English; Director, UGA Medieval Studies Program
Ph.D., Indiana University
Office: 306 Park Hall
Phone: 706-542-2229
E-mail: jdmevans@uga.edu
Areas of interest: Old English language and literature, Old Norse literature, paleography, philology as discipline and practice |
Richard Eliott Friedman
Ann and Jay Davis Professor of Jewish Studies, Department of Religion
Th.D., Harvard University
Office:
Phone:
E-mail: rfriedman@uga.edu
Areas of interest: |
Alan Godlas
Associate Professor, Department of Religion
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Office: 217 Peabody Hall
Phone: 706-542-1486
E-mail: godlas@uga.edu
Areas of interest: Arabic, Persian, and Turkish language, Islamic literature, paleography |
Linda Harklau
Professor, Department of Language and Literacy Education
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Office: 125 Aderhold
Phone: 706-542-4521
E-mail: lharklau@uga.edu
Areas of interest: Second language acquisition in adolescents and adults, literacy and academic instruction for language minority students, role of culture and identity in second language learning, qualitative approaches to research in second language acquisition |
Kenneth Honerkamp
Associate Professor, Department of Religion
Ph.D., University of Aix-en-Provence
Office: 200 Peabody Hall
Phone: 706-542-5356
E-mail: hnrkmp@uga.edu
Areas of interest: History of Arabic grammar and lexicography, the language of the Quran, traditional Islamic educational models, critical editions of Sufi texts |
Lewis C. (Chad) Howe
Assistant Professor, Department of Romance Languages
Ph.D., The Ohio State University
Office: 370J Gilbert Hall
Phone: 706-583-0792
E-mail: chowe@uga.edu
Areas of interest: Spanish and Portuguese linguistics, semantics, pragmatics, and sociolinguistics |
Peter Jorgensen
Emeritus Professor, Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages
Ph.D., Harvard University
Office:
Phone:
E-mail: jorgy@uga.edu
Areas of interest: German dialects, medieval German pilgrimage literature, Old Icelandic manuscript editing, the linguistic classification of loanwords, and the Bear's Son Folktale in Old English and Old Norse literature |
Mi-Ran Cho Kim
Lecturer
Office: 321 Park Hall
Phone: 706-542-2243
E-mail: mrkim@uga.edu
Areas of interest: Acoustic phonetics, phonology, second language acquisition |
Jared S. Klein
Distinguished Research Professor, Department of Classics; Director, Linguistics Program
Ph.D., Yale University
Office: 226 Park Hall
Phone: 706-542-9261
E-mail: jklein@uga.edu
Areas of interest: Comparative and historical Indo-European linguistics, Sanskrit, Greek, Latin, Gothic, Classical Armenian |
William A. Kretzschmar, Jr.
Harry and Jane Willson Professor in Humanities, Department of English
Ph.D., University of Chicago
Office: 317 Park Hall
Phone: 706-542-2246
E-mail: kretzsch@uga.edu
Areas of interest: Language variation, corpus linguistics |
Keith Langston
Associate Professor, Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages
Ph.D., Yale University
Office: 108 Joseph E. Brown Hall
Phone: 706-542-2448
E-mail: langston@uga.edu
Areas of interest: Slavic phonology and morphology; sociolinguistics, with a focus on language and identity in the former Yugoslavia; historical Slavic linguistics and accentology |
Hilda Mata
Lecturer, Department of Romance Languages
Ph.D.
Office: 370H Gilbert Hall
Phone: 706-542-3170
E-mail: hmmata@uga.edu
Areas of interest: Second language acquisition; Spanish applied linguistics |
Don R. McCreary
Professor, Department of English; Graduate Coordinator, Linguistics Program
Ph.D., University of Delaware
Office: 340 Park Hall
Phone: 706-542-2238
E-mail: mccreary@uga.edu
Areas of interest: Second language acquisition research and pedagogy, bilingual lexicography, and applied linguistics, with specific interests in Japanese as a second language and in English as a second language |
Lioba Moshi
University Professor, Department of Comparative Literature; Director, African Studies Institute
Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
Office: 141 Joseph E. Brown Hall
Phone: 706-542-2133
E-mail: moshi@uga.edu
Areas of interest: Second language acquisition and pedagogy; African languages; discourse analysis; language, gender, and culture |
Akinloye Ojo
Assistant Professor, Department of Comparative Literature
Ph.D., University of Georgia
Office: 147 Joseph E. Brown Hall
Phone: 706-542-7730
E-mail: akinloye@uga.edu
Areas of interest: Yoruba language and linguistics, applied linguistics and language teaching, and language, culture and society. |
Teresa Perez-Gamboa
Academic Professional, Department of Romance Languages
Ph.D.
Office: 370G Gilbert Hall
Phone: 706-542-3972
E-mail: perezt@uga.edu
Areas of interest: |
Margaret Lubbers Quesada
Associate Professor, Department of Romance Languages; Director, Language Resource Center
Ph.D., Michigan State University
Office: 105 Gilbert Hall
Phone: 706-542-2460
E-mail: quesadam@uga.edu
Areas of interest: Spanish as a second/foreign language, corpus-based data analysis, language learning and technology |
Diana L. Ranson
Associate Professor, Department of Romance Languages
Ph.D., University of Michigan
Office: 370L Gilbert Hall
Phone: 706-542-7323
E-mail: dranson@uga.edu
Areas of interest: Language change and variation in the Romance languages |
Donald L. Rubin
Emeritus Professor, Department of Speech Communication and Department of Language and Literacy Education
Ph.D., University of Minnesota
Office: 113 Terrell Hall
Phone: 706-542-4893
E-mail: drubin@uga.edu
Areas of interest: Marking gender, ethnicity, national, and role relations in written language; oral-based vs. literate-based stylistics; evaluative responses to language variation |
Hildebrando Ruiz
Associate Professor, Department of Romance Languages
Ph.D., Indiana University
Office: 206 Gilbert Hall
Phone: 706-542-3147
E-mail: hruiz@uga.edu
Areas of interest: Spanish linguistics, applied linguistics, foreign language teacher development |
Alexander Sager
Associate Professor, Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages
Ph.D., Cornell University
Office: 102 Joseph E. Brown Hall
Phone: 706-542-6211
E-mail: asager@uga.edu
Areas of interest: Middle High German, medieval German literature of courtly love (minne), and the literary, cultural and historical/historiographic relationship between German-speaking lands and eastern Europe, primarily Hungary |
Paula Schwanenflugel
Professor, Department of Educational Psychology and Instructional Technology; Program Coordinator, Applied Cognition and Development
Ph.D., University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana
Office: 329 Aderhold Hall
Phone: 706-542-4273
E-mail: pschwan@uga.edu
Areas of interest: Semantics and semantic development, lexical processing |
Mariana Souto-Manning
Assistant Professor, College of Family and Consumer Sciences
Ph.D., University of Georgia
Office: 106 405 Sanford Dr.
Phone: 706-542-1297
E-mail: mvsm@uga.edu
Areas of interest: Sociocultural and historical foundations of schooling, language development, literacy practices, cultures, and discourses. |
Alexander Williams
Assistant Professor, Department of English
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
Office: 343 Park Hall
Phone:
E-mail: alxndrw@uga.edu
Areas of interest: Syntax and semantics of verb phrases; Mandarin and other languages of China; categorial and tree-adjoining grammars; syntactic change
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Graduate Students
Geoffrey Adams gra2@uga.edu
is a PhD student on the Historical Linguistics track. |
Claire Andres girlshack@aol.com
is a PhD student on the Language Variation and Sociolinguistics track. |
Betsy Barry bbarry@uga.edu
is a PhD student on the Language Variation and Sociolinguistics track. |
Rebekah Benjamin
is an MA student on the Second Language Acquisition track |
Radia Benzehra
is a PhD student on the Second Language Acquisition track |
Garrison Bickerstaff gbick@uga.edu
is a PhD student on the Language Variation and Sociolinguistics track. |
Paulina Stelmach Bounds pbounds@uga.edu
is a PhD student on the Language Variation and Sociolinguistics track. |
Soo Jung Chang sjung74@uga.edu
is a PhD student on the Second Language Acquisition track. |
Aram Cho
is an MA student on the Second Language Acquisition track |
Steven Coats
is a PhD student on the Language Variation and Sociolinguistics track |
Janay Crabtree cjanay@uga.edu
is a PhD student on the Second Language Acquisition track. |
Betsy Craig eccraig@uga.edu
is a PhD student on the Second Language Acquisition track. |
Jiyoung Daniel jilee@uga.edu
is a PhD student on the Second Language Acquisition track. |
Brett Davis
is an MA student on the Language Variation and Sociolinguistics track |
Luke Gorton
is an MA student on the Historical Linguistics track |
Frances Gray
is an MA student on the Language Variation and Sociolinguistics track |
Laura Greifner
is an MA student on the Language Variation and Sociolinguistics track |
Jacqueline Hettel
is an MA student on the Language Variation and Sociolinguistics track |
Magdalene Jacobs
is an MA student on the Historical Linguistics track |
Franchesca Judd
is an MA student on the Language Variation and Sociolinguistics track |
Jeffrey Kilpatrick jeffk@uga.edu
is a PhD student on the Historical Linguistics track. |
Kenneth Knight
is a PhD student on the Second Language Acquisition track |
Nathan Loggins
is an MA student on the Language Theory track |
Stephen Looney
is a PhD student on the Second Language Acquisition track |
Lloyd Martin lalloyd@uga.edu
is a PhD student on the Historical Linguistics track. |
Heather Mello hlmello@uga.edu
is an MA student on the Second Language Acquisition track. |
Antje Meyke ameyke@uga.edu
is a PhD student on the Language Variation and Sociolinguistics track. |
Erin Mitchelson erimit@uga.edu
is an MA student on the Second Language Acquisition track. |
Judi Oliver
is a PhD student on the Language Variation and Sociolinguistics track |
Joseph Pennington cymraeg@uga.edu
is a PhD student on the Historical Linguistics track. |
Nick Petree
is a PhD student on the Language Variation and Sociolinguistics track |
Iris Potter
is an MA student on the Second Language Acquisition track |
Caley Smith
is an MA student on the Language Theory track |
Tony Snodgrass
is a PhD student on the Language Variation and Sociolinguistics track |
Satomi Suzuki ss422@uga.edu
is a PhD student on the Second Language Acquisition track. |
Sonya Teigen
is an MA student on the Language Variation and Sociolinguistics track |
Rose Upor upor@uga.edu
is a PhD student on the Second Language Acquisition track. |
Rebecca Vanderslice rvanders@uga.edu
is an MA student on the Language Variation and Sociolinguistics track. |
Betsy Wang egwang@uga.edu
is an MA student on the Historical Linguistics track. |
Mark Wenthe wenthem@uga.edu
is a PhD student on the Historical Linguistics track. |
Willie Udo Willie
is a PhD student on the Language Theory track |
Heather Willis hwillis7@uga.edu
is an MA student on the Language Variation and Sociolinguistics track. |
W. Keith Winkler kwinkler@uga.edu
is an MA student on the Historical Linguistics track. |
Shih-Ju (Jackie) Young shih@uga.edu
is an MA student on the Language Theory track. |
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