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Graduate students group photo (April 2011). Click here for a larger image.

Below is a list of our current graduate students.
Student Interest
Beth Baldys
MA, Linguistics
E-mail: ejb44@pitt.edu
Sociolinguistics, medical discourse, language and gender
Brian Brubaker
PhD, Sociolinguistics
E-Mail: brb1@pitt.edu
Language and identity, language attitudes, and language maintenance and shift in relation to the status of "mainlanders" in Taiwan

Jody Garcia

PhD in Descriptive Linguistics

2nd year

Email: jlg147@pitt.edu

Phonetics/Phonology, language death
Christina Schoux Casey
PhD, Sociolinguistics
E-Mail: ces41@pitt.edu
New Orleans English, indexical reference, morphosyntax, and philology
Lauren B. Collister
PhD, Sociolinguistics
E-mail: lbc8@pitt.edu
eLinguistics, multimodality, electronic discourse, language and gender, discourse analysis, Ancient Greek

Jie Cui
PhD, Sociolinguistics

(comprehensive papers & proposal)

E-mail: jic34@pitt.edu

or icuijie@gmail.com

Chinese sociophonetics; diasporic linguistic minorities in China; CDA (power, gender, stance); Chinese pedagogy and acquisition of Chinese morphology and phonology; primarily interested in Hakka-Gan, Cantonese, Hokkien, Wu, Huo Nte; also Korean, Hungarian-German

Lorraine Denman
PhD, Applied Linguistics

(currently working on Dissertation proposal)
E-mail: denman@pitt.edu

SLA, second language pedagogy, technology in the classroom, order of acquisition, motivation, L1 interference, Romance languages, Italian L2 acquisition

Fawn T Draucker
PhD, Sociolinguistics

(currently working on Dissertation proposal)
E-mail: ftd1@pitt.edu

Media discourse analysis, participation frameworks in social media, sports media, sociophonetics

Jim Fitzpatrick

MA-PhD, Hispanic Linguistics & Sociolinguistics

Email:jbf24@pitt.edu

 

language and identity, bilingualism, and language and gender

Kristopher J. Geda
PhD, Sociolinguistics

(currently working on his Dissertation Proposal)
E-mail: kjg23@pitt.edu

Gay-sounding speech; acquisition of register, accent, and dialect; language and sexuality, gender, and identity; sociophonetics, phonology; language policy and planning

Daniel Hatfield

MA, Linguistics

2nd year

Email: dah96@pitt.edu

Applied Linguistics, TESOL

Jamie Hudzik

PhD, Sociolinguistics

2nd year

Email: jbh49@pitt.edu

(or jamie.hudzik@gmail.com)

Discourse Analysis, Organizational Narratives, Branding & Identity, American Dialects (Pittsburghese), Language Variation, Forensic Linguistics, Polish

Andy Jeske

MA-PhD, SLA

2nd year

Email: arj36@pitt.edu

SLA, Phonetics and Phonology

Sally Kim

MA-PhD, Second Language Acquisition

2nd year

Email: sjk70@pitt.edu

SLA

Maria Laura Lenardon
MA-PhD, Hispanic Linguistics

(SLA & Sociolinguistics)

(currently working on her comprehensive papers)
E-mail: mll32@pitt.edu

or laulenard@yahoo.com

Second language acquisition, bilingualism, use of technology in the foreign language classroom

VerĂ³nica Lifrieri
PhD, Hispanic Linguistics (Sociolinguistics)

ABD
E-mail: vel1@pitt.edu

The construction and transformation of language ideologies related to national identity; dialect contact among Spanish speakers of different regional varieties (especially in situations of transnational migration); Spanish phonologies; autochthonous and diasporic linguistic minorities; language policy for education; discourse analysis

Nausica Marcos Miguel
PhD, Hispanic Linguistics
E-mail: nam56@pitt.edu
SLA, morphology, literacy, and foreign language instruction

Katherine I. Martin

MA-PhD, Applied Linguistics with TESOL Certificate

(4th year; currently working on her second comprehensive paper)
E-mail: kim20@pitt.edu

Second language acquisition, L2 reading, word recognition, phonological processing, working memory, cognitive individual differences, vocabulary learning, L2 morphosyntax,
bilingualism, language processing, implicit knowledge, ESL, Arabic as a foreign language
Mike Olsen
PhD, Hispanic Linguistics
E-mail: mko4@pitt.edu
Second language acquisition of Spanish phonetics, phonology, and morphology; Second language acquisition of Spanish pronominal object clitics; Effect of instruction on Second language acquisition of Spanish morphology and pronunciation

Sarah Pearman
MA-PhD, Hispanic Linguistics

2nd year

Email: skp27@pitt.edu or sarah.k.pearman@gmail.com (preferred)



Interests: SLA; third language acquisition; bilingual cognition; language policy (particularly as it relates to education and minoritylanguages); language contact (particularly between Spanish and
minority languages in Spain and in Guatemala); Catalan; K'iche' Maya

Gina Peirce

MA, Applied Linguistics

E-mail: gbpeirce@pitt.edu

Second language acquisitions, psycholinguistics, attainment of advanced Russian L2 proficiency by US learners

William C. Price
MA-PhD in Applied Linguistics and TESOL certificate

(currently working on his MA thesis)
E-mail: wcp5@pitt.edu

Second language acquisition, bilingualism, psycholinguistics, memory and cognition, computer-aided learning and rehearsal

Sarah Ramsey

(licensed speech pathologist)
MA, Hispanic Linguistics

2nd year

Email: ser46@pitt.edu

TESOL, SLA, Spanish dialectology
and speech and language disorders in multilingual speakers

Hillary Schepps

MA, Applied Linguistics with TESOL Certificate

Email: hbs12@pitt.edu

Second language acquisition; the interface of implicit and explicit L2 knowledge; Italian linguistics

Holman Tse

PhD, Sociolinguistics

(2nd year)

Email: hbt3@pitt.edu

Language variation and change, sociophonetics, contact, dialectology, language ideology, language & race/ethnicity, phonetics/phonology interface, L2 phonology, Cantonese, Kizigua (Bantu)
Jing Wang
PhD
E-mail: jiw45@pitt.edu

Psycholinguistics, Second Language Acquisition

 

Ping Wang
PhD, general and descriptive lingistics
E-mail: piw6@pitt.edu

Phonology, Tonology, Phonetics, Chinese Linguistics

 

Adrienne R. Washington

PhD, Sociolinguistics

(Currently working on Dissertation Proposal)
E-mail: arw36@pitt.edu

Sociocultural aspects of language use in Afro-American communities; Socio-semantic variation and change in racial slurs