Linguistics Department

  • Mardi Kidwell Communication/Justice Studies/Linguistics; Professor
    Research Interests: Children/Youth, Intercultural Communications, Law Enforcement, Microanalysis of face-to-face interaction between children, adults and individuals in policing contexts, Nonverbal Communication, Sociolinguistics

  • Danielle Pillet-ShoreCommunication/Justice Studies/Linguistics; Associate Professor
    Research Interests: Acute Care/Medicine, Animal Communication, Anthropology, Breastfeeding, Broadcast Media, Caregivers, Child/Maternal Health, Children/Youth, Classroom Instruction, Community and School Relations, Culture, Early Childhood Education, Education, Elementary Education, Ethnography, Family, Fieldwork, Health Communication, Human Factors, Lactation, Language and social Interaction; examines video-recorded, naturally-occurring face-to-face casual and professional interactions, Mass Communication/Media, Medical Sociology, Nonverbal Communication, Parent Involvement, Primary Care, Social Control, Social Exclusion, Social Inclusion, Social Psychology, Sociolinguistics, Sociology, Women's Health

  • Rachel Burdin English/Linguistics/Women's & Gender Studies; Assistant Professor
    Research Interests: Intonation, Jewish English, Language contact, Phonetics, Prosody, Sociolinguistics, Variation and change, Yiddish

  • Soo Hyon Kim English/Linguistics; Associate Professor
    Research Interests: Mixed methods research in applied linguistics, Second language writing, Teacher education, TESOL

  • Holly Cashman Languages, Literatures, & Cultures/Linguistics; Professor
    Research Interests: Conversational interaction, Linguistic politeness, Queer Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Spanish in the U.S.

  • Piero Garofalo Languages, Literatures, & Cultures/Linguistics; Professor
    Research Interests: 19th century literature, 20th century culture, 21st century literature, European Studies, Film, Film analysis, Film history, Film theory, Film/Cinema Studies, Foreign language education, Italian cinema, Italian History, Italian Language/Literature, Italian women writers, Italy, Modernism, Romanticism, Translation