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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. 


Sara Epps

(she/her) (they/them) Sara Epps is here as a Graduate Student and Teaching Assistant instructing 'Study of Language' (LING2100) as well as acting as the TA for 'Discourse Analysis' (LLED7732) with her major professor Dr. Ruth Harman. Their research focuses on discourse analysis and pragmatics, particularly as they relate to digital media, film, and humor. They have worked on a study which looks to determine what contextualization cues work to…


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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Rachel Hignite


Shulin Zhang

I am doing my research at UGA Linguistics Department for Computational and Neural Linguistics, under the direction of Professor John Hale. During my study here, I have been exploring the brain mechanism of zero pronouns and their discourse support resources. Before landing in this field, I had study experience in Cognitive Science, Artificial Intelligence, and Electric Engineering (which were all helpful for me to realize how wonderful…


Angela Mossgrove

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