Welcome New Faculty
The Department of Linguistics welcomes one new tenure-track faculty member and three new faculty members by courtesy.
Ezra Keshet joins the faculty in the area of semantics. Professor Keshet completed his PhD in semantics at MIT and was the Language Learning Assistant Professor in the Linguistics Department last year. Ezra’s work focuses on syntax, pragmatics and discours
Anne Curzan joins the faculty by courtesy in the area of English linguistics, History of English, language and gender and linguistic pedagogy. Professor Curzan holds her primary appointment as Associate Professor and Thurnau Professor in the Department of English
Nick Ellis joins the faculty by courtesy in the area of second language acquisition, language learning, construction grammar and cognitive linguistics. Professor Ellis holds his primary appointment as Professor in the Department of Psychology and the English Language Institute
Barbara Meek joins the faculty by courtesy in the area of linguistic anthropology, child language socialization and acquisition, endangered and/or dormant language issues, linguistic theory and Athabaskan linguistics. Professor Meek holds her primary appointment as Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology.