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Usree Bhattacharya


William Kretzschmar

Professor Kretzschmar (Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1980) began his career as a medievalist (dissertation on Middle Scots poetry, medieval literary theory), and has over time become more associated with English Language Studies. In addition to his full-time appointment at UGA, he has an academic appointment at  the University of Oulu (Finland). He is Editor Emeritus of the Linguistic Atlas Project, a national center for survey research on…


Paula Mellom

Dr. Mellom holds a Ph.D. in linguistics specializing in second language acquisition.  She works primarily with pre and inservice teachers to develop their ability to make academic content accessible to linguistically and culturally diverse learners. Her qualitative analysis explores the role of collaborative, conversation-based instruction in identity construction, and cognitive and linguistic development.  Her current research…


Margaret E. L. Renwick

On leave during Academic Year 2024-25 I study spoken language in order to improve our models of speech from both the speaker’s and the listener’s point of view. My research projects are rooted in the tradition of laboratory phonology, an approach which integrates experimental methods with more abstract linguistic representations of sound structure. I apply phonetic methodologies to gain insight on topics such as the nature of phonological…


Mark Wenthe

As a lecturer, my primary responsibility is in teaching courses, spanning a range of areas from Language Contact through Typology and Historical Linguistics. My primary area of expertise is in Indo-European studies, particularly Sanskrit and Germanic linguistics. I am interested in the interaction of different linguistic modules (e.g., exploring the interplay of syntax and phonology on the position of enclitic pronouns), and in how typological…


Olga Thomason

Historical Indo-European linguistics, prepositional semantics, Slavic linguistics and folklore, acquisition of Russian by foreign and heritage language learners


Paula Schwanenflugel

vocabulary development, psychology of reading, reading prosody


Alexander Sager

Middle High German, medieval German literature of courtly love (minne), and the literary, cultural and historical/historiographic relationship between German-speaking lands and eastern Europe, primarily Hungary


Diana Ranson

Language change and variation in the Romance languages


Margaret Lubbers Quesada

Prof. Quesada's field of expertise is in second language (L2) acquisition. Her most recent research has focused on the acquisition of tense, aspect and mood, subject pronouns, and lexical datives among Spanish L2 learners. Prof. Quesada teaches graduate seminars in Romance linguistics theory and analysis, Spanish second language acquisition, the history of Spanish, and special topics in Spanish L2 acquisition, as well as various undergraduate…
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