People - Faculty

Name

Field of Interest

Emily M. Bender

Professor

Office Hours: Summer: By appointment only

GUG 414C

Computational Linguistics, Endangered Languages, Grammar Engineering, Head Phrase Structure Grammar, Low-density Languages, Semantics, Societal impacts of language technology, Sociolinguistics, Syntax, Typology

Mykel Brinkerhoff

Phonetics Lab Assistant Director

mlbrinke@uw.edu

Office Hours: AUT 2025: Wednesdays 3-4pm (Zoom), Fridays 10-11am, or by appointment

GUG 407A

Acoustics and Psychoacoustics, American Indian/Native American, Celtic Languages, Endangered Languages, Field Research Methods, Germanic Languages, Otomanguean Languages, Phonetics, Phonology, Prosody, Sociophonetics

Qi Cheng

Assistant Professor

qicheng2@uw.edu / 206-221-4031

GUG 415H

American Sign Language, Language Development, Neurolinguistics, Psycholinguistics, Sentence Processing

Barbara Citko

Professor

bcitko@uw.edu / 206-543-6502

Office Hours: 2025-2026 academic year: on leave

GUG 415C

Minimalism, Minimalist Theory, Slavic Linguistics, Syntax, Syntax of Polish, Syntax-Semantics Interface

Betsy Evans

Professor

evansbe@uw.edu / 206-616-4963

GUG 415D

Dialectology, Field Research Methods, Ideology, Linguistic Geography, Perceptual Dialectology, Sociolinguistics, Variationist Theory

Naja Ferjan Ramírez

Associate Professor

naja@uw.edu / 206-543-4503

Office Hours: By appointment

GUG 415B

American Sign Language, Bilingualism, Brain and language, First Language Acquisition, Perception and Cognition, Psycholinguistics, Second Language Acquisition, Speech Perception, Speech Processing

Lance Forshay

Teaching Professor and ASL Language Director

lforshay@uw.edu / (206) 452-0085

GUG 417

American Sign Language, Cultural Competency, Deaf Studies, Deafhood, Language Attitudes, Privileges and Oppressions in Deaf Community (Audsim).

Andrew Hedding

Assistant Professor and Graduate Program Coordinator

ahedding@uw.edu / 206-616-8034

Office Hours: Fall 2025: By Appointment

GUG 415G

Endangered Languages, Field Research Methods, Language Documentation, Syntax

Myriam Lapierre

Assistant Professor

mylapier@uw.edu

Office Hours: by appointment

GUG 415F

Amazonian languages, Historical phonology, Language documentation, Linguistic Fieldwork, Phonetics, Phonology, Typology

Gina-Anne Levow

Professor

levow@uw.edu / 206-616-5728

Office Hours: On leave

GUG 418B

Computational Linguistics, Computer Science, Low-density Languages, Natural Language Processing, Pragmatics, Prosody, Speech Processing

Dan Mathis

ASL Assistant Teaching Professor

dvmasl@uw.edu

Office Hours: (*please email to make an online chat appointment)

GUG 417

American Sign Language, American Sign Language, Bilingualism, Culture, Deaf Communities, Deaf Culture, First Language Acquisition, Language Attitudes, Language Pedagogy, Language Policy, Second Language Acquisition

Laura McGarrity

Teaching Professor

lauramcg@uw.edu / (206) 685-3549

Office Hours: Fall: MW 1:30-2:30p

Guggenheim Hall (GUG) 418C

First Language Acquisition, Optimality Theory, Phonology, Prosody, Taboo Language

Toshiyuki Ogihara

Professor and Graduate Program Coordinator

ogihara@uw.edu

Office Hours: By appointment

GUG 415J

Formal Semantics, Japanese, Japanese Linguistics, Philosophy of Language, Pragmatics, Semantics, Syntax

Amandalynne Paullada

Acting Assistant Professor

paullada@uw.edu

Office Hours: By appointment

GUG 418B

Computational Linguistics, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing

Lorna Rozelle

Lecturer

rozelle@uw.edu

Office Hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays 12:00-1:00

GUG 418C

American Sign Language, Linguistics of Signed Languages, Morphology, Phonology, Typology

Shane Steinert-Threlkeld

Associate Professor

shanest@uw.edu / (206) 616-0997

Office Hours: Summer: appointment only. Fall '25: on sabbatical.

GUG 415K

Cognitive Science, Cognitive Science, Computational Linguistics, Computer Science, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Philosophy of Language, Pragmatics, Semantics, Typology

Alicia Beckford Wassink

Professor

wassink@uw.edu

Office Hours: F 12ː30-1ː30 and By appointment (in-person or online)

GUG 415 E

Bias in Automatic Speech Recognition, Dialect Contact, Field Research Methods, Jamaican Creole, Phonetics, Pidgins and Creoles, Social Networks, Sociolinguistics, Sociophonetics, Variationist Theory

Kristi Winter

Associate Teaching Professor

kwinter2@uw.edu

Office Hours: By appointment. Please email me to receive the Zoom link.

GUG 417

American Sign Language, First Language Acquisition, Phonology, Second Language Acquisition, Sociolinguistics

Richard Wright

Professor and Department Chair
Adjunct Professor Speech and Hearing Sciences

rawright@uw.edu / (206) 616-2426

Office Hours: Wednesday 1:00 - 2:00 and by appointment https://washington.zoom.us/j/92429826494

GUG 414B

Acoustics and Psychoacoustics, Austronesian, Endangered Languages, Field Research Methods, Neurolinguistics, Perception and Cognition, Phonetics, Prosody, Speech, Speech Perception

Fei Xia

Professor

fxia@uw.edu / (206) 543-9764

Office Hours: The office hours of ling570/572 or by appointments

GUG 418A

Computational Linguistics, Natural Language Processing

Emeriti Faculty

Heles Contreras

Professor Emeritus

helesc@uw.edu

Sharon Hargus

Professor Emerita

sharon@uw.edu

American Indian/Native American, Endangered Languages, Field Research Methods, Grammar, Historical Linguistics, Language Development, lexicography, Morphology, Phonetics, Phonology, texts

Julia Herschensohn

Professor Emerita

herschen@uw.edu

Bilingualism, First Language Acquisition, Historical Linguistics, Minimalist Theory, Morphology, Psycholinguistics, Second Language Acquisition, Sentence Processing, Syntax

Ellen Kaisse

Professor Emerita

kaisse@uw.edu / no phone

Dialectology, Historical Linguistics, Morphology, Optimality Theory, Phonetics, Phonology, Prosody

Jurgen Klausenburger

Professor Emeritus

jklaus@uw.edu

Frederick Newmeyer

Professor Emeritus

fjn@uw.edu

History of Linguistics, Syntax, Typology

Marina Tarlinskaya

Research Professor Emerita

marinat@uw.edu

Karen Zagona

Professor Emerita

zagona@uw.edu / (206) 685-0979

GUG 415-K

functional categories and features, Grammar, Romance linguistics, Syntax, Syntax of Spanish, syntax of tense

Adjunct Faculty

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Name	Title	Email/Phone	Office Hours
Bilaniuk, Laada M.	Adjunct Professor	bilaniuk@uw.edu
Bilmes, Jeffrey A.	Adjunct Professor	bilmes@uw.edu
Choi, SeaHee	Adjunct Assistant Professor	seahchoi@uw.edu 206-221-9184	GWN M233 See: https://asian.washington.edu/people/seahee-choi
Elkhafaifi, Hussein	Adjunct Associate Professor	hme3@uw.edu
Fernandez-Dobao, Ana	Adjunct Associate Professor	anadobao@uw.edu
Handel, Zev	Adjunct Professor	zhandel@uw.edu
Kuhl, Patricia K.	Adjunct Professor	pkkuhl@uw.edu
Lu, Chan	Adjunct Associate Professor	chanlu@uw.edu
Mawkanuli, Talant	Adjunct Associate Teaching Professor	tmawkan@uw.edu
Max, Ludo	Adjunct Professor	ludomax@uw.edu
Moore, Colette	Adjunct Associate Professor	cvmoore@uw.edu
Ohta, Amy	Adjunct Associate Professor	aohta@uw.edu
Ostendorf, Mari	Adjunct Professor	mo@ee.washington.edu
Prat, Chantel	Professor of Psychology	csprat@uw.edu
Smith, Maya	Adjunct Associate Professor	mayaas@uw.edu
Smith, Noah A.	Adjunct Professor of Computer Science and Engineering	nasmith@cs.washington.edu
Tennis, Joseph	Adjunct Professor	jtennis@uw.edu
Yetisgen, Meliha	Adjunct Professor	melihay@uw.edu
Zettlemoyer, Luke	Adjunct Professor of Computer Science and Engineering	lsz@cs.washington.edu	CSE 658
Zhao, Christina	Adjunct Research Assistant Professor	zhaotc@uw.edu

Affiliate Faculty

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Name	Title	Email/Phone
Bateh, Raymond	Affiliate Assistant Professor	rhzbateh@aol.com
Carlson, Greg	Affiliate Professor	Gc37@uw.edu
Culicover, Peter	Affiliate Professor	culicove@uw.edu
Dwyer, Arienne	Affiliate Professor	arienne@uw.edu
Hoard, James	Affiliate Professor	jeh20@uw.edu
Hugo, Russell	Affiliate Assistant Professor	rlhugo@uw.edu
Kahn, Jeremy	Affiliate Assistant Professor
Lewis, William	Affiliate Assistant Professor	wlewis2@uw.edu
Marin, Alex	Affiliate Professor	amarin@uw.edu
Odden, David	Affiliate Professor	dodden@uw.edu
Park, Eun Hae	Affiliate Assistant Professor	ehpark@uw.edu
Sano, Kyoko	Affiliate Assistant Professor	sano@uw.edu
Song, Yan	Affiliate Assistant Professor	yansong@uw.edu
Tjalve, Michael	Affiliate Assistant Professor	mtjalve@u.washington.edu
Toutanova, Kristina	Affiliate Assistant Professor	kristout@google.com
Youngscholten, Martha	Affiliate Professor	uwmys@uw.edu

In Memoriam

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Name	Title
Brame, Michael	Professor
Omaki, Akira	Assistant Professor
Saporta, Sol	Professor