Richard Kern Dept of French literacy, second language acquisition, writing, psycholinguistics, reading, French language, French linguistics, technology and education
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
Line Mikkelsen Dept of Linguistics morphology, syntax, semantics, California languages, Germanic languages, Inuit languages
Andrew Garrett Dept of Linguistics linguistics, language change, Indo-European languages, historical linguistics, Indigenous California languages, Indigenous language revitalization
Isaac L. Bleaman Dept of Linguistics sociolinguistics, language contact, language change, language maintenance, computational linguistics, syntax, phonetics, Yiddish, Jewish languages
Amy Rose Deal Dept of Linguistics meaning, grammar, endangered languages, Native American languages, semantics, syntax, word structure, language universals, language variation, Nez Perce language
Irina Paperno Dept of Slavic Languages and Literatures Russian language and literature, intellectual history
H. Mack Horton 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
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
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
Peter Jenks Dept of Linguistics syntax, semantics, morphology, linguistic theory, Thai, Southeast Asian languages, African languages
John MacFarlane Dept of Philosophy ancient philosophy, philosophical logic, philosophy of language, epistemology
Adam Benkato Dept of Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures Old and Middle Iranian languages, Zoroastrianism, Manichaeism, Arabic dialectology, sociolinguistics, philology, Libyan Studies, archives
Susanne Gahl Dept of Linguistics linguistics, psycholinguistics, linguistic structure, language production, aphasia and related language disorders, bilingualism, stuttering
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
Sarah Chasins Division of Computer Science (EECS) programming systems, human-computer interaction, programming languages, programming languages and compilers, program synthesis, data science
William F. Hanks Dept of Anthropology social and cultural anthropology, linguistics, shamanism, language, Yucatan Mexico, Maya culture
Jonas Wellendorf Dept of Scandinavian Old Norse language and literature, Scandinavian mythology, Scandinavian cultural history (Viking Age and Middle ages)
Patricia Baquedano-López School of Education immigration and diaspora from Latin America to the U.S., Latinos and education, race and language, Indigenous language revitalization
Robert Sharf Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures East Asian languages and cultures, medieval Chinese Buddhism, Chan Buddhism, Japanese Buddhism, Zen Buddhism, Tantric Buddhism, Buddhist art, ritual studies, Buddhist philosophy, methodological issues in the study of religion
Terry Regier Dept of Linguistics language and thought, computational linguistics, semantic universals, lexical semantics
Seth Yalcin Dept of Philosophy philosophy of language, cognitive science, semantics, metaphysics, epistemology, philosophical logic