Core Faculty and Staff
Karen Baertsch
Assistant Professor. Ph.D., Indiana University
Interests: Phonology, phonetics, historical linguistics, dialectology, Central Asian languages, language acquisition
e-mail address: kbaertsc@siu.edu
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Soo Jung Chang
Lecturer. Ph.D., University of Georgia
Interests: Syntax, second-language acquisition, and East-Asian Linguistics
e-mail address: soojungchang@siu.edu
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Krassimira Charkova
Senior Lecturer. Ph.D., Southern Illinois University at Carbondale.
Interests: Theory and methods in TESOL, teacher training, research methods in TESOL and linguistics, second language acquisition.
e-mail address: sharkova@siu.edu
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Laura Halliday
Senior Lecturer. Ph.D., Southern Illinois University at Carbondale.
Interests: TESOL theory and methods, ESL writing, pedagogical grammar.
e-mail address: halliday@siu.edu
Diane Korando
Office Administrator
e-mail address: ling@siu.edu
Paul McPherron
Assistant Professor. Ph.D., University of California, Davis.
Interests: Socio/applied linguistics, second language learning and teaching, linguistic and cultural identities, critical discourse analysis, "New" media in language classrooms.
e-mail address:mcpherron@siu.edu
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Peggy Stockdale
Professor of Psychology and Chair, Department of Linguistics. Ph.D. Kansas State University
Interests: Gender issues in the workplace, sexual harassment, career persistence of female STEM faculty, legal studies
e-mail address: pstock@siu.edu
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Cross-Appointed Faculty
Janet M. Fuller
Associate Professor, Anthropology & Director, SIUC Women’s Studies Program. Ph.D., University of South Carolina.
Interests: Discourse analysis, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, language contact, language acquisition.
e-mail address: jmfuller@siu.edu
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Alan Hyun-Oak Kim
Associate Professor, Foreign Languages & Literatures. Ph.D., University of Southern California.
Interests: Syntactic theory, functional syntax, semantics, comparative linguistics, Japanese and Korean syntax.
e-mail address: alanhkim@siu.edu
Usha Lakshmanan
Professor, Psychology. Ph.D., University of Michigan.
Interests: First and second language acquisition, psycholinguistics, syntactic theory, Tamil syntax.
e-mail address: usha@siu.edu
Emeritus Faculty
Paul Angelis
Emeritus Associate Professor. Ph.D., Georgetown University.
Interests: Language testing, language teaching methodology, English for specific purposes.
e-mail address: pangelis@siu.edu
Sheila Brutten
Emeritus Associate Professor. Ph.D.,Southern Illinois University Carbondale
John Dotson
Emeritus Professor. Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University
e-mail address: jdotson@siu.edu.
Joan E. Friedenberg
Emeritus Professor. Ph.D., University of Illinois.
Interests: Bi/Multilingual Education, sheltered instruction, immersion techniques, content-based language instruction (CBLI), languages for special purposes (LSP), multicultural education, ESL theory and methods, linguistic aspects of the Holocaust.
e-mail address: jfrieden@siu.edu
Glenn Gilbert
Emeritus Professor. Ph.D., Harvard University.
Interests: Pidgin and creole languages, German, sociolinguistics, historical linguistics, dialectology, history of linguistics.
e-mail address: glennggilbert@msn.com
Mary Montavon
Emeritus Lecturer. Ph.D. University of Illinois
Charles Parish
Emeritus Professor. Ph.D., University of New Mexico
e-mail address: cparish@libero.it
Kyle Perkins
Emeritus Professor. Ph.D., University of Michigan.
