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Tucker Hardison

Tucker received his undergraduate degrees in Linguistics and German from the University of Georgia, graduating Magna Cum Laude in the spring of 2021. He is primarily interested in sociolinguistics and discourse analysis. More specifically, Tucker focuses on how various intersectional identities are navigated and negotiated, linguistically and otherwise, across rural and urban spaces of the American South. His most recent research has focused on…


Meg Fletcher

Meg is from Holden Beach, North Carolina and received her Bachelor's and Master's degree in linguistics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is now a third-year Ph.D. student at UGA with research interests in sociolinguistics, forensic linguistics and indigenous languages. Currently, Meg is working on her QP1 on African American English speakers in Georgia. Please reach out to Meg via email for CV or other questions. 


Brent Edward Peterson


Ryan McDonald


Artin Nasirpour


Donald Dunagan

As a computational psycho- and neurolinguist, I investigate language---as a cognitive process---in the mind and brain. In this endeavor, I make use of natural language processing technology such as large language models and dependency and constituency parsers. Furthermore, I am interested in understanding how language processing, in the mind and brain, is similar and different across languages.

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Ph.D. candidate, Kim Waters, one of several UGA contributors to new sustainability text

Published this month by Lexington Books, an imprint of Rowman Littlefield, Climate Consciousness and Environmental Activism in Composition: Writing to Save the World (Ecocritical Theory and Practice) edited by Dr. Joseph R. Lease. Now more than ever—in a time when Americans still do not believe that humans are the primary cause of Earth's climate change crisis, the burden on educators to inform, challenge, and motivate students about…
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Devon Fischer

Devon Fischer is a PhD student in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Georgia. Her primary areas of research include Syntax and Second Language Acquisition. Devon has two BAs, one in Spanish and one in Linguistics, and an MA in Hispanic Linguistics. She currently teaches Spanish at UGA.


Jean Costa-Silva

My primary linguistic interests pertain to Second Language Acquisition, Cognitive Linguistics and Formal Linguistic Theory (Syntax and Semantics). My work focuses on the development of motion descriptions by English-Portuguese bilinguals. In essence, I am interested in how learners employ different linguistic strategies to describe movement through space. I have a BA in English Linguistics, Literature, and TESOL from the Federal University of…
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