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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

Steven Piantadosi

Steven Piantadosi

Dept of Psychology

language acquisition, language processing

Isaac L. Bleaman

Isaac L. Bleaman

Dept of Linguistics

sociolinguistics, language contact, language change, language maintenance, computational linguistics, syntax, phonetics, Yiddish, Jewish languages

Dept of Linguistics

meaning, grammar, endangered languages, Native American languages, semantics, syntax, word structure, language universals, language variation, Nez Perce language

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Dept of Slavic Languages and Literatures

Russian language and literature, intellectual history

heashot of Ramona Naddaff

Dept of Rhetoric

rhetoric, aesthetics, theory of the novel, ancient Greek philosophy and literature, history of philosophy, contemporary French thought

Dept of Political Science

history of political philosophy

Christopher Kutz

Christopher Kutz

criminal law, moral, legal and political philosophy

Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures

performativity, East Asian languages and cultures, classical poetry, diary literature, cultural context, anthology of vernacular poetry, Man'yôshû, poetry and poetics

Lev Michael

Dept of Linguistics

linguistic typology, Amazonian languages, anthropological linguistics, language contact and areal typology, language documentation and description

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

Dept of Linguistics

linguistics, phonological theory, typology, African languages, the Niger-Congo family, especially the comparative and historical study of the Bantu language family

Hannes Bajohr in outdoor setting

digital writing technologies, language and literature, German philosophical tradition in the 20th century, liberal and republican political theory

literacy, second language acquisition, writing, psycholinguistics, reading, French language, French linguistics, technology and education

Mairi McLaughlin

Mairi McLaughlin

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

Dept of Anthropology

social and political theory, communism and post-communism, language philosophy, the image, the body, avant-garde artistic experiments, science studies, ideology, Soviet and post-Soviet culture and society

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Peter Jenks

Dept of Linguistics

syntax, semantics, morphology, linguistic theory, Thai, Southeast Asian languages, African languages

Fei Xu

Dept of Psychology

cognitive development, language development, learning mechanisms, statistical learning and statistical inference, conceptual development, developmental psychology, word learning, physical reasoning, social cognition in infants and children, learning in infants and young children, computational models of cognitive development, cognitive development and AI models, psychology and philosophy

Max Willsey

Division of Computer Science (EECS)

programming optimization, programming languages

Dept of Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures

Old and Middle Iranian languages, Zoroastrianism, Manichaeism, Arabic dialectology, sociolinguistics, philology, Libyan Studies, archives

Dept of Linguistics

linguistics, psycholinguistics, linguistic structure, language production, aphasia and related language disorders, bilingualism, stuttering

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Eric Naiman

Dept of Comparative Literature

Dept of Slavic Languages and Literatures

sexuality, history, comparative literature, Slavic language, ideological poetics, history of medicine, Soviet culture, the gothic novel

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Division of Computer Science (EECS)

programming systems, human-computer interaction, programming languages, programming languages and compilers, program synthesis, data science

William F. Hanks

William F. Hanks

Dept of Anthropology

social and cultural anthropology, linguistics, shamanism, language, Yucatan Mexico, Maya culture

Nasser Zakariya

Dept of Rhetoric

science and narrative and documentary, history and philosophy of mathematics and physics