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Core Faculty

César Gutiérrez

PhD, Purdue University

Linguistics Program Director,
Associate Professor of Spanish
Greene 238
gutiermc@wfu.edu

Areas of Interest: Historical Linguistics, Philology, Phonetics, Phonology, and Dialectology

Margaret Bender

PhD, University of Chicago

Professor of Anthropology
Piccolo 119
benderm@wfu.edu

Areas of Interest: Cultural/Linguistic Anthropology

Tina Boyer

PhD, University of California – Davis

Associate Professor of German and Russian
Greene 337
boyertm@wfu.edu

Areas of Interest: Second Language Acquisition, TESOL, Psycholinguistics

Sara Fernández Cuenca

PhD, University of Illinois

Assistant Professor of Spanish
Greene 547
fernans@wfu.edu

Areas of Interest: Second Language Acquisition, Spanish in the United States, Psycholinguistics

Zak Lancaster

PhD, University of Michigan

Associate Professor of English
Tribble C215
lancasci@wfu.edu

Areas of Interest: Writing in the Disciplines, Academic Discourse Analysis, The Language of Stance and Evaluation, Educational Linguistics

Stéphanie Pellet

PhD, University of Texas – Austin

Associate Professor of French Studies
Greene 538
pelletsh@wfu.edu

Areas of Interest: Pragmatics, Foreign Language Pedagogy

Jon Smart

PhD, Northern Arizona University

Associate Teaching Professor of Writing
Tribble C113
smartjw@wfu.edu

Areas of Interest: Second Language Writing, Corpus Linguistics, TESOL

Affiliated Faculty

Irma Alarcón

PhD, Indiana University

Associate Professor of Spanish
Greene 519
alarcoi@wfu.edu

Areas of Interest: Second Language Acquisition, TESOL, Psycholinguistics

Diego Burgos

PhD, Pompeu Frabra University

Associate Professor of Spanish
Greene 525
burgosda@wfu.edu

Areas of Interest: Computer-assisted Translation, Software Localization, Natural Language Processing

Gaillynn Clements

PhD, University of Cambridge

Part-time Assistant Professor of English
Tribble C6C
clemeng@wfu.edu

Areas of Interest: Sociolinguistics, Discourse Analysis, Language evolution and genetics, Linguistic Discrimination

Jerid Francom

PhD, University of Arizona

Associate Professor of Spanish
Greene 550
francojc@wfu.edu

Areas of Interest: Psycholinguistics, Corpus Linguistics, Formal Syntax

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Stavroula Glezakos

PhD, University of California – Los Angeles

Associate Professor of Philosophy
Tribble B307
glezaksn@wfu.edu

Areas of Interest: Philosophy of language, epistemology, and metaphysics

Luis González

PhD, University of California – Davis

Professor of Spanish
Greene 534
gonzall@wfu.edu

Areas of Interest: Syntactic Theory and Spanish Applied Linguistics

Tiffany Judy

PhD, University of Florida

Associate Professor of Spanish
Greene Hall 527
judyte@wfu.edu

Areas of Interest: Language Acquisition, Psycholinguistics, Bilingualism, Morpho-Syntax

Daniel Jung

PhD, Indiana University

Assistant Teaching Professor of Spanish
Greene 517
jungd@wfu.edu

Areas of Interest: Second Language Acquisition, L2 Pragmatics, and bilingualism

Lauren Miller

PhD, Purdue University

Associate Teaching Professor of Spanish
Greene 531
millerle@wfu.edu

Areas of Interest: Language Acquisition, Bilingualism, Spanish in the United States, Heritage Languages and Speakers

Claudia Valdez

PhD, University of Arizona

Associate Teaching Professor of Spanish
Greene 535 A
valdezc@wfu.edu

Areas of Interest: Hispanic Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Discourse Analysis, Spanish in Contact, Latino Immigration in the USA

James Vizthum

PhD, University of Michigan

Assistant Professor of Arabic
DRS 401
vizthuj@wfu.edu

Areas of Interest: Second Language Acquisition, Psycho/Neurolinguistics, Word Recognition, Vocabulary Acquisition

Qiaona Yu

PhD, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa

Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Culture
Carswell 027
yuq@wfu.edu

Areas of Interest: Chinese as a second language acquisition, cognitive linguistics, task-based language education, language for specific purposes

Emeritus Faculty

Billy Hamilton (in memoriam)

PhD, Yale University

Professor Emeritus of German and Russian

Heiko Wiggers (in memoriam)

PhD, University of Texas – Austin