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Emily M. Bender

Professor
see-my@webpage.edu
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

Mykel Brinkerhoff

Phonetics Lab Assistant Director
mlbrinke@uw.edu
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Qi Cheng

Assistant Professor
qicheng2@uw.edu / 206-221-4031
GUG 415H
American Sign Language, Language Development, Neurolinguistics, Psycholinguistics, Sentence Processing
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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
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Betsy Evans

Associate Professor and Associate Chair of Linguistics
evansbe@uw.edu / 206-616-4963
GUG 415D
Dialectology, Field Research Methods, Ideology, Linguistic Geography, Perceptual Dialectology, Sociolinguistics, Variationist Theory
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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

Andrew Hedding

Assistant Professor and Graduate Program Coordinator
ahedding@uw.edu / 206-616-8034
Office Hours: Summer 2025: By Appointment
GUG 418D
Endangered Languages, Field Research Methods, Language Documentation, Syntax
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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

Associate 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
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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

Laura McGarrity

Associate Teaching Professor
lauramcg@uw.edu / (206) 685-3549
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
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Amandalynne Paullada

Acting Assistant Professor
paullada@uw.edu
Office Hours: By appointment
GUG 418B
Computational Linguistics, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing
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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
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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
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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
Linguistics Chair Richard Wright

Richard Wright

Professor and Department Chair
Adjunct Professor Speech and Hearing Sciences
rawright@uw.edu / (206) 616-2426
Office Hours: Thursday 10:00 - 12:00 and by appointment https://washington.zoom.us/j/98377770922
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

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
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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

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

Affiliate Faculty

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Name Title Email/Phone Office Hours
Kahn, Jeremy Affiliate Assistant Professor
Marin, Alex Affiliate Professor amarin@uw.edu
Dwyer, Arienne Affiliate Professor arienne@uw.edu
Culicover, Peter Affiliate Professor culicove@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
Toutanova, Kristina Affiliate Assistant Professor kristout@google.com
Tjalve, Michael Affiliate Assistant Professor mtjalve@u.washington.edu
Bateh, Raymond Affiliate Assistant Professor rhzbateh@aol.com
Hugo, Russell Affiliate Assistant Professor rlhugo@uw.edu
Sano, Kyoko Affiliate Assistant Professor sano@uw.edu
Youngscholten, Martha Affiliate Professor uwmys@uw.edu
Lewis, William Affiliate Assistant Professor wlewis2@uw.edu
Song, Yan Affiliate Assistant Professor yansong@uw.edu

In Memoriam

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