Andrew Garrett Dept of Linguistics linguistics, language change, Indo-European languages, historical linguistics, Indigenous California languages, Indigenous language revitalization
Victoria Kahn Dept of Comparative Literature Dept of English rhetoric, comparative literature, Renaissance literature, poetics, early modern political theory, the Frankfurt School
Isaac L. Bleaman Dept of Linguistics sociolinguistics, language contact, language change, language maintenance, computational linguistics, syntax, phonetics, Yiddish, Jewish languages
Robert Ashmore Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures China, lyric poetry, Chinese literature, Chinese culture, poetic theory
Colleen Lye Dept of English postcolonial theory, marxism, critical theory, cultural studies, Asian American literature, 20th and 21st century literature, world literature
Sophie Volpp Dept of Comparative Literature Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures Chinese literature, Ming and Qing fiction and drama, material culture, pre-modern women poets and dramatists
Lev Michael Dept of Linguistics linguistic typology, Amazonian languages, anthropological linguistics, language contact and areal typology, language documentation and description
Judith Butler Dept of Comparative Literature critical theory, gender and sexuality studies, comparative literature, 19th and 20th century continental philosophy, social and political thought, philosophy and literature
Dora Zhang Dept of Comparative Literature Dept of English narrative & the novel, 20th and 21st century Britain, 20th and 21st century U.S., Asian American literature, affect theory, critical theory, philosophy and literature
Kevin Shadel Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures Korean literature and culture, comparative literature, critical theory, marxism, posthumanism, psychoanalysis
Larry M. Hyman Dept of Linguistics linguistics, phonological theory, typology, African languages, the Niger-Congo family, especially the comparative and historical study of the Bantu language family
Wali Ahmadi Dept of Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures Persian literature, literary theory and criticism, cultural history, Afghanistan
Hertha D. Sweet Wong Dept of English American literature, Native American literature, autobiography, ethnic American literature
Richard Kern Dept of French literacy, second language acquisition, writing, psycholinguistics, reading, French language, French linguistics, technology and education
Mairi McLaughlin Dept of French Dept of Italian Studies French linguistics, translation studies, language of the media, language contact, syntax, romance linguistics, History of the Romance Languages, Italian language, history of French, History of the Press, Speech Reporting, Metalinguistic texts
Karin Sanders Dept of Scandinavian Danish literature, 19th and 20th Century Scandinavian literature, literary history, gender and literature, word and image, archaeology in literature and visual art, death and the arts, ecology and ice art
Peter Jenks Dept of Linguistics syntax, semantics, morphology, linguistic theory, Thai, Southeast Asian languages, African languages
Daniel Klein Division of Computer Science (EECS) unsupervised language acquisition, efficient algorithms for NLP, linguistically rich models of language, integrating symbolic and statistical methods for NLP, organization of the web, machine translation, information extraction
John MacFarlane Dept of Philosophy ancient philosophy, philosophical logic, philosophy of language, epistemology
Susanne Gahl Dept of Linguistics linguistics, psycholinguistics, linguistic structure, language production, aphasia and related language disorders, bilingualism, stuttering
Joshua Gang Dept of English 20th century Irish and British literature, literature and philosophy, 20th century literature, history of literary theory, the novel, literature and the sciences of mind, close reading, philosophy of literature, philosophy of mind, moral philosophy
Ignacio Navarrete Dept of Spanish and Portuguese Spanish literature: poetry; poetic theory; narrative; and culture, history of the book, Cervantes, Don Quixote, Celestina, everyday life, medieval and early modern Spanish literature, modern Spain