Rosalva Alamillo

Ph.D. Student
Hispanic Studies
Email: raalamilloolivas@uh.edu

Research interests: Spanish as a heritage language, second language acquisition, applied linguistics, bilingualism

Richard H. Armstrong

Associate Professor of Classical Studies
The Honors College and Modern and Classical Languages
Email: richarda@central.uh.edu

Research interests: translation studies, cultural reception of ancient languages/cultures, historical linguistics

Cameron Buckner

Assistant Professor
Philosophy
Email: cjbuckner@uh.edu

Research interests: computational linguistics, corpus analysis, cognitive science

Ferenc Bunta

Associate Professor
Communication Sciences and Disorders
Email: fbunta@uh.edu

Research interests: phonetics and phonology

Anny Castilla-Earls

Associate Professor
Communication Sciences and Disorders
Email: annycastilla@uh.edu

Research interests: bilingual language acquistion

Natasha César Suárez

Ph.D. Student
Hispanic Studies
Email: ncesar@uh.edu

Research interests: Second language teaching/acquisition, sociolinguistics

Yesenia Chávez

Ph.D. Student
Hispanic Studies
Email: ychavez2003@yahoo.com

Research interests: Spanish as a Heritage Language (HL), Spanish as a Second Language (L2), Spanish Sociolinguistics and Applied Linguistics

Chatwara S. Duran

Assistant Professor
English
Email: cduran4@uh.edu

Research interests: multilingualism, biliteracy, migration and refugee studies

Marta Fairclough

Associate Professor
Hispanic Studies
Email: mfairclough@uh.edu

Research interests: sociolinguistics, applied linguistics, US Spanish, heritage languages

Tatiana Ferrer

Ph.D. Student
Hispanic Studies
Email: tiferrer@uh.edu

Research interests: Applied Linguistics, Second Language Acquisition, Spanish as a Heritage Language, Sociolinguistics

Laura Gasca Jiménez

Ph.D. Student
Hispanic Studies
Email: lgascajimenez@uh.edu

Research interests: Spanish linguistics, Spanish sociolinguistics, Spanish second language acquisition, Spanish heritage language acquisition, and translation pedagogy.

James Garson

Full Professor
Philosophy
Email: jgarson@uh.edu

Research interests: formal semantics for natural language, philosophy of language, natural language processing, computational linguistics

Merrilee Gietz

Instructional Assistant Professor
Communication Sciences and Disorders - American Sign Language Interpreting Program
Email: mrgietz@uh.edu

Research interests: American Sign Language and other signed language, second language learning

Elizabeth Goodin-Mayeda

Associate Professor
Hispanic Studies
Email: cegoodin-mayeda@uh.edu

Research interests: phonetics, phonology, laboratory approaches to phonology, heritage languages, bilingualism, language acquisition

Manuel Gutiérrez

Professor
Hispanic Studies
Email: mjgutierrez@uh.edu

Research interests: sociolinguistics, linguistic contact, historical linguistics

Arturo E. Hernandez

Professor
Psychology
Email: aehernandez@uh.edu

Research interests: bilingualism, brain

Soyeon Lee

Ph.D. Student
English
Email: soyeonlee2127@gmail.com

Research interests: multilingualism, translingualism, second language writing, sociolinguistics

Carolann Madden

Ph.D. Student in Literature and Creative Writing
English
Email: maddencv@gmail.com

Research interests: I am interested in poetry in translation, translation theory, and the act of translation itself, as well as pedagogical approaches to working with L2 (L3, L4 etc!) English learners with regard to writing. I am also interested in the study of endangered and/or minority languages, and have a background in Irish language studies.

K. Kelly Meine

Undergraduate Student
Psychology
Email: kellymeine@gmail.com

Research interests: psycholinguistics and neurolinguistics

Victoria Moreno

M.A. Student
Hispanic Studies
Email: vmoreno5@uh.edu

Research interests: sociolinguistics, Heritage language, phonetics, phonology, bilingualism, language acquisition

Kevin Munuera

Ph.D. Student
Hispanic Studies
Email: kevinmunuerapulido@yahoo.es

Research interests: Diachronic linguistics

Carlos R. Naranjo

Ph.D. Student
Hispanic Studies
Email: crnaranjo@uh.edu

Research interests: Sociolinguistics, Historical linguistics, language contact and change

Jodi Nelms

Associate Director, Language and Culture Center
English
Email: jlnelms2@uh.edu

Research interests: cross-culture communication, ITAs, pragmatics & language learning, oral discourse analysis, humor

Nidhi Rajkumar

Ph.D. Student
English
Email: nidhirajkumar@gmail.com

Research interests: Applied Linguistics in the context of Leadership and Power

Diana Reyes Ferrufino

M.A. Student
Hispanic Studies
Email: dereyes23@gmail.com

Research interests: pragmatics, cognitive response

Carlos Romero

Spanish Lecturer
Hispanic Studies
Email: romero.carlos07@gmail.com

Research interests: sociolinguistics, linguistics, language acquisition

Rey Romero

Assistant Professor of Spanish Linguistics
Arts and Humanities (UHD)
Email: reyromero8@gmail.com

Research interests: heritage languages, bilingualism, language change and variation, languages for special purposes

Kavita Singh

Assistant Professor
English
Email: kasingh@uh.edu

Research interests: Creole language and literature/multilingual writing

Thoudam Doren Singh

Ph.D. Student
Computer Science
Email: thoudam.doren@gmail.com

Research interests: Natural Language Processing

Thamar Solorio

Associate Professor
Computer Science
Email: thamar.solorio@gmail.com

Research interests: Computational linguistics: mixed-language, authorship attribution and information extraction

Yuliya Summers

Lecturer
Curriculum and Instruction
Email: yssummers@uh.edu

Research interests: Bilingual/ESL teacher preparation, ESL/Bilingual teacher professional development

Ming-Chew Teo

Assistant Professor
Modern and Classical Languages
Email: mteo@uh.edu

Research interests: Contact linguistics, sociolinguistics, bilingualism

Izabela Uscinski

Visiting Assistant Professor/Writing Fellow
English
Email: iauscinski@uh.edu

Research interests: L2 writing (written corrective feedback, ESL students in mainstream compositions classrooms, collaboration across departments and language centers)

Xiaohong (Sharon) Wen

Full Professor
Modern and Classical Languages
Email: xwen@uh.edu

Research interests: L2 acquisition, L2 learning motivation, teacher training, research based instruction

Allison Yakel

Ph.D. Student
Hispanic Studies
Email: anyakel@uh.edu

Research interests: Sociolinguistics, phonology, heritage language

Hanako Yoshida

Associate Professor
Psychology
Email: yoshida@uh.edu

Research interests: Early language development

Lauren Zentz

Assistant Professor of Applied Linguistics
English
Email: lrzentz@central.uh.edu

Research interests: Language policy, identity, language socialization, state formation

Eve Zehavi

Ph.D. Student
College of Education
Email: ezehavi@uh.edu

Research interests: lexical and syntactic analysis