People - Faculty

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Emily M. Bender

Professor
see-my@webpage.edu / GUG 414 C
Office Hours: Autumn (2021): (Most) Mondays 4-5pm & (most) Thursdays 12-1pm & by appointment; online only -- email for Zoom link
Computational Linguistics, Endangered Languages, Grammar Engineering, Head Phrase Structure Grammar, Low-density Languages, Semantics, Societal impacts of language technology, Sociolinguistics, Syntax, Typology
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Qi Cheng

Assistant Professor
qicheng2@uw.edu
Office Hours: By appointment
American Sign Language, First Language Acquisition, Neurolinguistics, Sentence Processing

Barbara Citko

Professor and Alternate Graduate Program Coordinator
bcitko@uw.edu / GUG 415C
Office Hours: Friday 9:30-10:30am and by appointment
Minimalism, Minimalist Theory, Slavic Linguistics, Syntax, Syntax of Polish, Syntax-Semantics Interface
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Betsy Evans

Associate Professor
evansbe@uw.edu / 415D GUG
Dialectology, Field Research Methods, Ideology, Linguistic Geography, Perceptual Dialectology, Sociolinguistics, Variationist Theory
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Naja Ferjan Ramírez

Assistant Professor
naja@uw.edu / (206) 543-4503 / Guggenheim 415B
Office Hours: M: 9:30-10:20 or by appointment. Please email for a Zoom link.
American Sign Language, Bilingualism, Brain and language, First Language Acquisition, Perception and Cognition, Psycholinguistics, Second Language Acquisition, Speech Perception, Speech Processing

Lance Forshay

Associate Teaching Professor and ASL Language Director
lforshay@uw.edu / 206-452-0085 / GUG 406
Office Hours: 12:00-2:00 p.m. M-F
American Sign Language, Cultural Competency, Deaf Studies, Deafhood, Language Attitudes, Privileges and Oppressions in Deaf Community (Audsim).

Sharon Hargus

Professor
sharon@uw.edu / (206) 685-4263 / GUG 415J
Office Hours: By appointment
American Indian/Native American, Endangered Languages, Field Research Methods, Grammar, Historical Linguistics, Morphology, Phonetics, Phonology
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Myriam Lapierre

Assistant Professor
mylapier@uw.edu / GUG 415F
Office Hours: M,Tu 11-12; by appointment; Zoom meeting ID: 93704333971
Amazonian languages, Historical phonology, Language documentation, Linguistic Fieldwork, Phonetics, Phonology, Typology

Gina-Anne Levow

Associate Professor
levow@uw.edu / (206) 616-5728 / GUG 418B
Office Hours: Fridays 2:30-3:20, please email for Zoom access
Chinese, Computational Linguistics, Computer Science, Dialog, Discourse Analysis, Low-density Languages, Natural Language Processing, Pragmatics, Prosody, Speech Processing
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Dan Mathis

ASL Assistant Teaching Professor
dvmasl@uw.edu
Office Hours: (*please email to make an online chat appointment)
American Sign Language, American Sign Language, Bilingualism, Culture, Deaf Communities, Deaf Culture, First Language Acquisition, Language Attitudes, Language Pedagogy, Language Policy, Linguistics, Second Language Acquisition

Laura McGarrity

Associate Teaching Professor
lauramcg@uw.edu / (206) 685-3549 / GUG 418C
Office Hours: Autumn 2021: TTH 1:30-2:30p (via Zoom)
First Language Acquisition, Optimality Theory, Phonology, Prosody, Taboo Language
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Marina Oganyan

Acting Instructor
marina0@uw.edu

Toshiyuki Ogihara

Professor and Graduate Program Coordinator
ogihara@uw.edu / GUG 415G
Office Hours: MW 3:30 - 4:30 (Winter 2018)
Formal Semantics, Japanese Linguistics, Philosophy of Language
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Shane Steinert-Threlkeld

Assistant Professor
shanest@uw.edu / (206) 616-0997 / Guggenheim 418D
Office Hours: MW, 2:30-3:30PM
Cognitive Science, Computational Linguistics, Computer Science, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Philosophy of Language, Pragmatics, Semantics

Alicia Beckford Wassink

Associate Professor
wassink@uw.edu / GUG 415
Office Hours: By appointment
Dialect Contact, Ethnography, Field Research Methods, Jamaican Creole, Phonetics, Pidgins and Creoles, Social Networks, Sociolinguistics, Sociophonetics, Variationist Theory

Kristi Winter

Assistant Teaching Professor
kwinter2@uw.edu / GUG 406
Office Hours: By appointment
American Sign Language, First Language Acquisition, Phonology, Second Language Acquisition, Sociolinguistics
Linguistics Chair Richard Wright

Richard Wright

Professor and Department Chair
rawright@uw.edu / (206) 616-2426 / GUG 414B
Office Hours: Fall 2021: Th 11-1 and by appointment
Acoustics and Psychoacoustics, Austronesian, Endangered Languages, Field Research Methods, Machine Learning, Perception and Cognition, Phonetics, Prosody, Speech, Speech Perception

Fei Xia

Professor
fxia@uw.edu / (206) 543-9764 / Guggenheim 418A
Office Hours: 2:15-3:15pm on Thurs (in-person), 10-11am on Friday (remote via Canvas Conferences, only for ling570 students)
Computational Linguistics, Natural Language Processing

Emeriti Faculty Members

Heles Contreras

Professor Emeritus
helesc@uw.edu
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Julia Herschensohn

Professor Emerita
herschen@uw.edu / 206-685-2858 / GUG 415-K
Office Hours: By appointment
Bilingualism, First Language Acquisition, French, Historical Linguistics, Linguistics, Minimalist Theory, Second Language Acquisition, Spanish, Syntax

Ellen Kaisse

Professor Emerita
kaisse@uw.edu / no phone / Guggenheim 415K
Office Hours: Spring 2021 online by appointment
Dialectology, Greek (Modern), Historical Linguistics, Morphology, Optimality Theory, Phonetics, Phonology, Prosody, Spanish, Turkish

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

Karen Zagona

Professor Emerita
zagona@uw.edu / (206) 685-0979 / GUG 415-K
Office Hours: WTR 2020: Tues 1-3pm and by appointment
functional categories and features, Grammar, Romance linguistics, Syntax, Syntax of Spanish, syntax of tense

Adjunct Faculty Members

An Adjunct member in the Department of Linguistics is a person who holds a primary appointment in another department of the University. This appointment is intended to recognize the contributions to and mutual scholarship with the Department of Linguistics by such faculty members (e.g. serving on graduate committees, teaching cross-listed courses, collaborating on research).

Namesort descending Title Email / Phone Office
Ohta, Amy Adjunct Associate Professor aohta@uw.edu
Fernandez-Dobao, Ana Adjunct Associate Professor anadobao@uw.edu
Prat, Chantel Adjunct Associate Professor of Psychology csprat@uw.edu
Moore, Collette Adjunct Assistant Professor cvmoore@uw.edu
Stygall, Gail Adjunct Professor stygall@uw.edu
Elkhafaifi, Hussein Adjunct Associate Professor hme3@uw.edu
Bilmes, Jeffrey A. Adjunct Professor bilmes@uw.edu
Tennis, Joseph Adjunct Associate Professor jtennis@uw.edu
Dziwirek, Katarzyna A. Adjunct Professor dziwirek@uw.edu
Bilaniuk, Laada M. Adjunct Professor bilaniuk@uw.edu
Osterhout, Lee E. Adjunct Professor losterho@uw.edu
Chan, Lu Adjunct Associate Professor chanlu@uw.edu
Max, Ludo Adjunct Professor ludomax@uw.edu
Zettlemoyer, Luke Adjunct Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering lsz@cs.washington.edu CSE 658
Ostendorf, Mari Adjunct Professor mo@ee.washington.edu
Smith, Maya Adjunct Assistant Professor mayaas@uw.edu
Yetisgen, Meliha Adjunct Associate Professor melihay@uw.edu
Smith, Noah A. Adjunct Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering nasmith@cs.washington.edu
Kuhl, Patricia K. Adjunct Professor pkkuhl@uw.edu
Choi, Yejin Affiliate Associate Professor yejin@cs.washington.edu
Handel, Zev Adjunct Professor zhandel@uw.edu

Affiliate Faculty Members

Namesort descending Title Email / Phone Office
Marin, Alex Affiliate Assistant Professor amarin@uw.edu
Odden, David Affiliate Professor dodden@uw.edu
Park, Eun Hae Affiliate Assistant Professor ehpark@uw.edu
Carlson, Greg Affiliate Professor Gc37@uw.edu
Hoard, James Affiliate Professor jeh20@uw.edu
Kahn, Jeremy Affiliate Assistant Professor jeremy@trochee.net
Park, Jungyeul Affiliate Assistant Professor jungyeul@uw.edu
Toutanova, Kristina Affiliate Assistant Professor
Sano, Kyoko Affiliate Assistant Professor sano@uw.edu
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Tjalve, Michael Affiliate Assistant Professor mtjalve@u.washington.edu
Aoki, Paul Affiliate Assistant Professor i5no8@u.washington.edu
Culicover, Peter Affiliate Professor culicove@uw.edu
Hugo, Russell Affiliate Assistant Professor rlhugo@uw.edu
Lewis, William Affiliate Assistant Professor wlewis2@uw.edu
Song, Yan Affiliate Assistant Professor yansong@uw.edu