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Dept of Linguistics

linguistics, language change, Indo-European languages, historical linguistics, Indigenous California languages, Indigenous language revitalization

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Liesl Yamaguchi

poetics, linguistics, literary theory, 19th century literature, modern poetry

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Justin Davidson

Dept of Spanish and Portuguese

Spanish linguistics, romance linguistics, contact linguistics, bilingualism, Catalan, sociophonetics, language variation and change, quantitative methods

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Dept of Linguistics

computational linguistics, machine learning, artificial intelligence, Generative AI, Deep Learning, speech processing, NLP, phonology, articulatory and acoustic phonetics, historical linguistics, Indo-European linguistics

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Daniella Cádiz Bedini

Dept of Spanish and Portuguese

hemispheric American literature, literary exchanges, anticolonial activism, migration, border crossings, translation, linguistic exchange

Lev Michael

Dept of Linguistics

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

Dept of Linguistics

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

Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures

Japanese linguistics, syntax/semantics, pragmatics, phonetics, cognitive linguistics

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Peter Jenks

Dept of Linguistics

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

Dept of Linguistics

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

Dept of Linguistics

language and thought, computational linguistics, semantic universals, lexical semantics

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

Isaac L. Bleaman

Isaac L. Bleaman

Dept of Linguistics

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

William F. Hanks

William F. Hanks

Dept of Anthropology

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

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

Michael Lucey delivering a lecture.

Dept of Comparative Literature

the novel, sexuality studies, comparative literature, French, French literature, nineteenth and twentieth centuries, British literature and culture, social and literary theory, cultural studies of music, studies of language in use, linguistic anthropology, theories of practice, twentieth-century American literature

Alan Tansman in outdoor setting

Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures

Modern Japanese Literature, literary and cultural theory, aesthetics and politics, Comparative Responses to Violence, literary history

Susan Maslan in crowded interior space

French, early modern French literary, political history, the enlightenment, human rights

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Dept of Ancient Greek & Roman Studies

Latin Literature, psychoanalysis, literary form

Timothy Hampton in an outdoor setting

Timothy Hampton

Dept of Comparative Literature

culture, politics, English, comparative literature, popular music, history of emotion, French, renaissance and early modern European culture, the romance languages, the ideology of literary genre, the literary construction of nationhood, the rhetoric of historiography

Wali Ahmadi

Dept of Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures

Persian literature, literary theory and criticism, cultural history, Afghanistan

Stephen Best standing at desk with shelves full of book in the background.

Dept of English

film, English literature, African American literature, literary culture, legal culture

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

Patrick Bradshaw

Patrick Bradshaw

School of Public Health

epidemiologic methods, Bayesian methods, cancer epidemiology, cardiometabolic risk

Dept of Comparative Literature

modern poetry, aesthetics, literary theory, history of criticism, Frankfurt School Critical Theory