Faculty
Membership on the Linguistics Program faculty is open to UGA faculty who have teaching or research interests in any area of linguistics. While many of the faculty regularly teach LING courses or courses cross-listed between their home departments and Linguistics, others are involved primarily through service on thesis and dissertation committees.
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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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 |
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 |
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 |
Jonathan Evans
Associate Professor, Department of English; Graduate Coordinator, Linguistics Program; 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 Elliott Friedman
Ann and Jay Davis Professor of Jewish Studies, Department of Religion
Th.D., Harvard University
Office: 211 Peabody Hall
Phone:
E-mail: rfriedma@uga.edu
Areas of interest: Hebrew Bible, Near Eastern languages and civilizations |
Timothy Gupton
Assistant Professor, Department of Romance Languages
Ph.D., University of Iowa
Office: 244 Gilbert Hall
Phone: 706-542-4730
E-mail: gupton1@uga.edu
Areas of interest: Spanish and Galician syntax with emphasis on the left periphery and clitics, focus fronting, experimental methods, bilingualism, generative acquisition, quantifier raising and scope; syntax-information structure interface |
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 |
Ruth Harman
Assistant Professor, Department of Language and Literacy Education
Ed.D., University of Massachusetts-Amherst
Office: 125 Aderhold
Phone: 706-542-4526
E-mail: rharman@uga.edu
Areas of interest: Systemic functional linguistics, critical literacy |
Viktoria Hasko
Assistant Professor, Department of Language and Literacy Education
Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University
Office: 125G Aderhold Hall
Phone: 706-542-4025
E-mail: vhasko@uga.edu
Areas of interest: Second/ foreign language acquisition and instructed learning, computer-assisted language learning and teaching, language and cognition, learner corpus analysis. |
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: Language variation and change, sociolinguistics, language contact |
Mi-Ran Cho Kim
Lecturer, Linguistics Program
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison
Office: 140 Gilbert Hall
Phone: 706-542-4099
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 |
Keith Langston
Associate Professor, Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies
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 |
Vera Lee-Schoenfeld
Assistant Professor, Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies
Ph.D., University of California, Santa Cruz
Office: 209 Joseph E. Brown Hall
Phone: 706-542-2440
E-mail: vleesch@uga.edu
Areas of interest: German syntax with a focus on complexity of phrases, phasehood, reduced infinitive constructions, binding, datives, and inalienable possession; syntax-phonology interface |
Anya Lunden
Assistant Professor, Department of English
Ph.D., University of California, Santa Cruz
Office: 301 Park Hall
Email: alunden@uga.edu
Areas of interest: Phonology, and the role of phonetics in phonology. I am particularly interested in phonetic and phonological issues that behave differently at the right edge of words, such as stress and syllable weight. |
Don R. McCreary
Professor, Department of English
Ph.D., University of Delaware
Office: 340 Park Hall
Phone: 706-542-2231
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
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: 246 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: 706-542-1075
E-mail: dranson@uga.edu
Areas of interest: Language change and variation in the Romance languages |
Alexander Sager
Associate Professor, Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies
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 |
Graduate Students
Ellen Ayres
Program: M.A.
E-mail: eayre2wc@uga.edu
Areas of interest: Second language acquisition, language variation |
Marcus Berger
Program: M.A.
E-mail: marcberg16@gmail.com
Areas of interest: Syntax, historical linguistics |
Laura Brewer
Program: M.A.
E-mail: lbrewer@uga.edu
Areas of interest: |
Wei Chen
Program: Ph.D.
E-mail: wcp72@uga.edu
Areas of interest: |
Kelly P. Dugan
Program: M.A.
E-mail: kpdugan@uga.edu
Areas of interest: Greek, Latin, Sanskrit, historical linguistics, Greek history, ancient philosophy, classical archeology |
Suzanne Franks
Program: Ph.D.
E-mail: scfweb@uga.edu
Areas of interest: Second language acquisition |
Kristen Fredriksen
Program: M.A.
E-mail: kfred88@uga.edu
Areas of interest: Language variation, sociolinguistics, dialectology, world Englishes |
Brooke Evans Gendron
Program: M.A.
E-mail: gendrbe@vt.edu
Areas of interest: Sociolinguistics |
Joshua Hanna
Program: M.A.
E-mail: jhanna10@uga.edu
Areas of interest: Syntax, historical linguistics |
Sofia A. Ivanova
Program: M.A.
E-mail: sivanova@uga.edu
Areas of interest: Second language acquisition |
Xiangyu Jiang
Program: Ph.D.
E-mail: xiangyu@uga.edu
Areas of interest: Second language acquisition, psycholinguistics, speech perception |
Scott Lee
Program: Ph.D.
E-mail:gte577z@uga.edu
Areas of interest: Acoustic phonetics, intonational phonology, French |
Martin Macak
Program: Ph.D.
E-mail: macak@uga.edu
Areas of interest: Indo-European linguistics |
T. Lloyd Martin
Program: Ph.D.
E-mail: lalloyd@uga.edu
Areas of interest: Historical linguistics |
Antje Meyke
Program: Ph.D.
E-mail: ameyke@uga.edu
Areas of interest: Sociolinguistics, language contact and variation |
Tomoe Nishio
Program: Ph.D.
E-mail: tnishio@uga.edu
Areas of interest: Sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology |
Andrew Paczkowski
Program: Ph.D.
E-mail: thepacz@uga.edu
Areas of interest: Indo-European linguistics, historical linguistics, syntax |
Jennimaria Palomaki
Program: M.A.
E-mail: jennipalo@gmail.com
Areas of interest: |
Adam Paulukaitis
Program: Ph.D.
E-mail: paulukaa@uga.edu
Areas of interest: Indo-European linguistics, Balto-Slavic accentology and syntax, Romance languages |
Nicole Siffrinn
Program: M.A.
E-mail: nsiffrin@uga.edu
Areas of interest: |
Anastasia Sorokina
Program: M.A.
E-mail: asorok@uga.edu
Areas of interest: Second language acquisition |
Vanessa Swenson
Program: Ph.D.
E-mail: vanessar@uga.edu
Areas of interest: Phonetics, phonology, historical linguistics of Iberian languages and dialects |
Allison Wachter
Program: M.A.
E-mail: wachtera@uga.edu
Areas of interest: Sociolinguistics, language variation, discourse analysis |
Kim Waters
Program: M.A.
E-mail: ekw2010@uga.edu
Areas of interest: Second language acquisition, phonetics-phonology interface, Optimality Theory |
Xiaodong Zhang
Program: Ph.D.
E-mail: zxdman588@gmail.com
Areas of interest: Discourse analysis, second language acquisition |
Sam Zukoff
Program: M.A.
E-mail: samzukoff@gmail.com
Areas of interest: Indo-European linguistics, theoretical phonology |
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