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Jared S. Klein

After majoring as an undergraduate in English and minoring in classics and math, I went to Yale to study linguistics and more or less stumbled into one of the leading centers of Indo-European Linguistics in the world. Since I had always had latent interests in this area, based upon my classical studies, I began to take courses with Warren Cowgill on general Indo-European and with Stanley Insler on Sanskrit. I wrote my dissertation on the…


Lewis C. (Chad) Howe

My primary area of research is language variation and change, focusing on structural phenomena in the Romance Languages. More generally, I investigate the forces that shape language use and the subsequent effect that these forces have on how language evolves. Starting with my doctoral dissertation, Cross-dialectal features of the Spanish Present Perfect: A Typological Analysis of Form and Function (Ohio State, 2006), I have focused on the…


Victoria Hasko

Second/ foreign language acquisition and instructed learning, computer-assisted language learning and teaching, language and cognition, learner corpus analysis.


Ruth Harman

Ruth Harman is an Associate Professor in TESOL and World Language Education in the Department of Language and Literacy and an affiliated professor in Linguistics at the University of Georgia.  Her research includes exploration of critical performative pedagogy, critical discourse analysis and systemic functional linguistics as a teaching and analytic resource. She is actively engaged in arts-based participatory research with local…


Linda Harklau

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


Baruch Halpern

I'm a generalist in ancient cultures, particularly of western Asia before about 500 BCE (after which comes journalism).  One can sometimes isolate variables tolerably.  But as no variable is ever truly independent (except, ironically, relative to other quanta), inquiry in any one subject demands satisfying oneself about others.  


Timothy Gupton

IMPORTANT NOTE: My home department is Romance Languages, and I teach for them primarily in Spanish. If you cannot take a course in Spanish, you will most likely not be able to take coursework with me. That said, if you are interested in having me on your doctoral or master's committee, please contact me.  I am originally from Las Vegas, Nevada. I completed my BA in Romance Languages (Spanish & French) at UNLV in 1997 and my MA in…


Richard Elliott Friedman

Richard Elliott  Friedman earned his Th.D. and Th.M. at Harvard in Hebrew Bible and Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations; M.H.L. at the Jewish Theological Seminary; and B.A. at the University of Miami. He was a Visiting Fellow at Cambridge and Oxford, a Senior Fellow at the American Schools of Oriental Research in Jerusalem, and Visiting Professor at the University of Haifa.  He is also Katzin Professor of Jewish Civilization…


Jonathan Evans

Jonathan Evans (Ph.D., Indiana University, 1984) is a professor of medieval languages and literature; he holds the B.A. from Asbury College (1976), the M.A. from Indiana University (1978), and a Doctoral Certificate from the Medieval Studies Program at Indiana University (1982).  He has been a member of the UGA English Department from 1984 to the present; he was a Visiting Lecturer in the Indiana University Living-Learning Center in…


Liang Chen

My current research focuses on (i) form-function mapping in the narratives of monolingual and bilingual speakers, (ii) the development of visual speech perception, and (iii) general effects of bilingualism and effects of crosslinguistic differences and transfer on language development and use.  Representative Publications:  Chen, L., Lei, J., and Gong, H. (2018). The effect of hearing status on speechreading…
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