Faculty
David P Birdsong
Professor
birdsong@austin.utexas.edu |
(512) 471-7299 |
HRH 2.122
Education: Ph.D., Harvard University, Romance Languages and Literatures
Interests: second language acquisition, psycholinguistics, bilingualism, French linguistics
Carl S Blyth
Associate Professor
cblyth@austin.utexas.edu |
(512) 232-2312 |
HRH 3.114C
Education: Ph.D., French Linguistics, Cornell University
Interests: Applied linguistics (instructional technology, corpus linguistics, pedagogical grammar); French sociolinguistics (style, stance and interaction); Discourse studies (narrative analysis, cultural scripts, indexicality)
Hans C. Boas
Professor; Raymond Dickson, Alton C. Allen and Dillon Anderson Centennial Professor; Director, Linguistics Research Center; Director, Texas German Dialect Project
hcb@austin.utexas.edu |
(512) 232-6358 |
BUR 328
Education: Ph.D., Linguistics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Interests: Syntax, Lexical Semantics, Computational Lexicography, Language Contact & Variation, Contrastive Linguistics, Corpus Linguistics, Pragmatics, Morphology, Endangered Languages, Phonology
Joel Brereton
Professor
jpb@austin.utexas.edu |
512-475-6024 |
WCH 4.122
Education: PhD, Yale University
Interests: Sanskrit; Religious studies, Asian religions, Vedic studies
Barbara E. Bullock
Professor
bbullock@austin.utexas.edu |
(512) 471-9095 |
HRH 3.108B
Education: Ph.D., Linguistics, Delaware
Interests: Bilingualism and language contact, language variation and change, sociophonetics, computational and corpus linguistics
Rebecca M. Callahan
Associate Professor
callahan@prc.utexas.edu |
(512) 471-8347 |
CLA 2.408H, SZB 436G
Education: Ph.D., University of California, Davis
Interests: Bilingual Education, immigrant adolescents' academic preparation, language minority students and students identified with learning disabilities in the STEM pipeline, language policy in education, immigrant adolescents' civic development, the transition to young adulthood among immigrants
Patience L. Epps
Associate Professor
pattieepps@austin.utexas.edu |
(512) 471-9015 |
CLA 4.736
Education: Ph.D., Linguistic Anthropology, University of Virginia
Interests: Indigenous Amazonian languages, typology, language contact and language change, Amazonian prehistory
Thomas Garza
Associate Professor
tjgarza@austin.utexas.edu |
(512) 232-9126 |
BUR 458
Education: Ed.D., Harvard University, 1987
Interests: Russian language teaching methodology/ Applied linguistics/ Contemporary Russian culture/ The Chechen wars / Post-Soviet youth culture/ Russian popular culture/ Contemporary Russian media/ Performing masculinity in Contemporary Russia & Mexico
Zenzi M. Griffin
Professor
zgriffin@utexas.edu |
(512) 232-8062 |
SEA 5.214
Education: Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Interests: Language Production, Speech Errors, Personal Names, and Psycholinguistics
Courtney Handman
Assistant Professor
chandman@austin.utexas.edu |
(512) 471-0059 |
SAC 4.124
Education: Ph.D., University of Chicago
Interests: Linguistic anthropology, the anthropology of Christianity, translation, denominationalism, religion and media, Melanesia, Papua New Guinea, the Pacific
Lars Hinrichs
Associate Professor
larshinrichs@utexas.edu |
(512) 471-8755 |
PAR 219
Education: Ph.D., 2006, English Linguistics, University of Freiburg
Interests: Sociolinguistics; anthropological linguistics; corpus linguistics, Pidgins and Creoles; computer-mediated communication
Elaine K Horwitz
Professor
horwitz@austin.utexas.edu |
(512) 232-4108 |
SZB 528
Interests: Foreign language anxiety; learner beliefs about language learning, language learning strategies
Elizabeth L. Keating
Professor
elizabeth.keating@austin.utexas.edu |
(512) 471-8518 |
SAC 4.156
Education: Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
Interests: Linguistic anthropology, language and status, American Sign Language, new communication technologies, computer-mediated interaction, multimodal communication, visual anthropology; Oceania, Micronesia, US
Orlando R. Kelm
Associate Professor
orkelm@austin.utexas.edu |
(512) 232-4534 |
MEZ 4.146
Education: Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Interests: The teaching of foreign language for professional purposes, Use of technology in foreign language education, Portuguese and Spanish phonetics, Applied linguistics
Su Yeong Kim
Professor
sykim@prc.utexas.edu |
(512) 471-5524 |
SEA 2.322G
Education: Ph.D. Human Development and Family Sciences, University of California, Davis
Interests: Mexican American and Chinese American families and immigration, acculturation, language brokering, parenting, depressive symptoms, school achievement, measurement invariance
Sara E Kimball
Associate Professor
kimballs321@gmail.com |
(512) 471-8363 |
PAR 108
Education: Ph.D., 1983, Linguistics, University of Pennsylvania
Interests: Hittitology; Hittite and Indo-European languages; historical linguistics; lexicography; language and gender; history of literacy
Dale A. Koike
Professor
d.koike@austin.utexas.edu |
(512) 232-4508 |
BEN 3.108
Education: Ph.D., University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Interests: Pragmatics in Native and Non-native Talk; Second and Third Language Acquisition; Interaction in SLA; Heritage Language Learners
Danny Law
Assistant Professor
dannylaw@austin.utexas.edu |
CLA 4.432
Education: Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin
Interests: Historical linguistics, language contact, Mayan languages, writing systems
Belem López
Assistant Professor
bglopez@austin.utexas.edu |
(512) 471-2415 |
GWB 2.308
Education: Ph.D., Texas A&M University
Deirdre B Mendez
Associate Director, Center for Global Business; Lecturer
deirdre.mendez@mccombs.utexas.edu |
(512) 471-8031 |
CBA 3.252
Na'ama Pat-El
Associate Professor
npatel@austin.utexas.edu |
(512) 232-8292 |
CAL 501C
Education: Ph.D., 2008, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations (Semitic Philology), Harvard University
Interests: Comparative Semitic Linguistics, Historical Linguistics, Syntax, Languages in Contact, Linguistic Methodology
Elizabeth D Peña
Professor, George Christian Centennial Professor in Communication
lizp@mail.utexas.edu |
(512) 471-2690 |
CMA 4.114B
Education: Ph.D., Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences, Temple University
Interests: bilingual language acquisition, second language acquisition, language impairment, non-biased assessment, between-language transfer in intervention
Marc Pierce
Associate Professor
mpierc@austin.utexas.edu |
(512) 232-6360 |
BUR 358
Education: Ph.D, Germanic Linguistics, University of Michigan
Interests: Historical linguistics, Germanic linguistics and philology, history of linguistics, phonology, Scandinavian studies
David Quinto-Pozos
Associate Professor
davidqp@austin.utexas.edu |
(512) 471-9030 |
RLP 4.714
Education: Ph.D., The University of Texas at Austin
Esther Raizen (on leave 2019-2020)
Associate Professor
raizen@austin.utexas.edu |
GEB 3.212
Education: Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin
Interests: Modern & classical Hebrew language, linguistics & literature; Hebrew as a foreign language; Jewish history & culture; Computer-assisted instruction & computational linguistics
Erin M. Rodríguez, PhD
Assistant Professor
erodriguez@austin.utexas.edu |
(512) 471-0283 |
SZB 254E
Interests: Dr. Rodriguez's areas of interest and expertise include: pediatric chronic illness (e.g., cancer, asthma) and health disparaties; developmental processes in stress and coping; linguistic and cultural factors in mental health
Sergio Romero
Associate Professor
sergio.romero@austin.utexas.edu |
(512) 232-4532 |
BEN 4.104
Education: Ph.D. Linguistics, University of Pennsylvania
Interests: Language variation and change; language contact; new dialect formation; deixis, discourse and social hierarchies; linguistic anthropology, language and ritual, Mayan languages, Nahuatl.
Cinzia Russi
Associate Professor
russi@austin.utexas.edu |
(512) 471-7024 |
HRH 3.110B
Education: Ph.D., 2003, Linguistics, University of Washington
Interests: Historical linguistics, Grammaticalization, Aspectualizers, Morphosyntax, Morphology, Italian Dialects, Comparative Romance Linguistics, Cognitive Grammar, Pragmatics, Lexical Semantics
Sandro Sessarego
Associate Professor
sandrosessarego@austin.utexas.edu |
(512) 232-2283 |
BEN 3.138
Education: Ph.D., The Ohio State University
Rajka Smiljanic
Associate Professor
rajka@austin.utexas.edu |
(512) 471-9029 |
CLA 4.724
Education: Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Sandra B Straubhaar
Senior Lecturer
sstraub@austin.utexas.edu |
(512) 232-6365 |
BUR 316
Education: Ph.D. in German Studies and Humanities, Stanford University
Interests: Medieval Scandinavia, Postmodern Medievalism, historical linguistics
Almeida Jacqueline Toribio
Professor
toribio@austin.utexas.edu |
(512) 471-4936 |
BEN 3.150
Education: Ph.D., 1993, Linguistics, Cornell University
Interests: Bilingualism and Language Contact, Morphology, Syntax, Sociolinguistics, Caribbean Studies, US Latino and Border Studies, Afro-Latin American and African Studies
Anthony K. Webster
Professor
Education: Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin
Interests: Linguistic anthropology, ethnopoetics, Athabaskan languages, translation, linguistic relativity, moral imagination
Anthony C. Woodbury
Professor
woodbury@austin.utexas.edu |
(512) 471-1701 |
CLA 4.728
Education: Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
