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Lucy Akturk

Student Wellbeing Officer

Dr Maria Ana Chavana Villalobos

LfA Spanish Tutor

Discipline: Languages

Dr Cinzia Bacilieri

Lecturer in Italian

Discipline: Languages

Research interests:

  • Languages for specific purposes
  • Italian through History of Art

Dr George Bailey

Senior Lecturer

Discipline: Linguistics

Research interests:

  • Sociolinguistics
  • Phonetics
  • Phonology

Megumi Bailey

Lecturer in Japanese

Discipline: Languages

Paola Bolognesi

LfA Italian Tutor

Discipline: Languages

Dr Laura Boundy

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Discipline: Linguistics

Professor Dunstan Brown

Anniversary Professor

Discipline: Linguistics

Research interests:

  • Morphology
  • Morphology-syntax interaction
  • Typology

Dr Marina Cantarutti

Lecturer in Linguistics

Discipline: Linguistics

Research interests:

  • Conversation analysis
  • Phonetics
  • Gesture
  • Multimodality

James Chantry

Lecturer in English Language Teacher Training

UG Admissions Tutor

Discipline: Linguistics

Dr Claire Childs

Senior Lecturer in English Language and Linguistics

Departmental Impact and Knowledge Exchange Lead

Discipline: Linguistics

Research interests:

  • Sociolinguistics
  • Dialectology
  • Grammatical and discourse-pragmatic variation and change

Sandrine Devlin

Lecturer in French

Discipline: Languages

Professor Paul Drew

Professor

Discipline: Linguistics

Research interests:

  • Social interaction
  • Communicative practices in medical interactions

Dr Imke Driemel

Lecturer

Discipline: Linguistics

Research interests:

  • Complementation
  • Logophoricity
  • Differential object marking
  • Genericity
  • Person feature systems

Dr Katherine Earnshaw

Industry Associate

Discipline: Linguistics

Nathaniel Elcock

Lecturer in Translation

Discipline: Languages

Géraldine Enjelvin

Senior Lecturer in French

Chair of the ECA Committee

Discipline: Languages

Dr Cristina Figueredo

Latin and Spanish Tutor

Medieval Latin Module Convenor

Discipline: Languages

Professor Paul Foulkes

Professor

Discipline: Linguistics

Research interests:

  • Forensic phonetics
  • Language variation and change
  • Phonetics and phonology
  • Sociophonetics 

Professor Peter French

Emeritus Professor

Discipline: Linguistics

Dr Ben Gibb-Reid

Lecturer in Forensic Speech Science

Discipline: Linguistics

Research interests:

  • Forensic phonetics
  • Discourse-pragmatic variation and change
  • Sociolinguistics

Dr Gustavo Góngora-Goloubintseff

Associate Lecturer in Translation Studies

Discipline: Languages

Research interests:

  • Translation practices and new technologies
  • Scientific and technical translation
  • Translation theory
  • Corpus-based methodologies

Professor Helen Goodluck

Emeritus Professor

Discipline: Linguistics

Dr Nino Grillo

Senior Lecturer

Chair of the Graduate School Board

Discipline: Linguistics

Dr Amelia Gully

Lecturer in Speech Science

Discipline: Linguistics

Research interests:

  • Forensic speech science
  • Speech synthesis
  • Numerical acoustic modelling
  • Speaker identification
  • Morphoacoustics

Steve Harlow

Senior Lecturer (retired)

Discipline: Linguistics

Dr Lauren Harrington

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Discipline: Linguistics

Professor Sam Hellmuth

Professor

Discipline: Linguistics

Research interests:

  • Intonational phonology, including prosodic variation and change
  • Laboratory phonology
  • Second language phonology including loanword phonology

Dr Vincent Hughes

Senior Lecturer

Discipline: Linguistics

Research interests:

  • Laboratory phonology
  • Phonetics
  • Phonology
  • Sociophonetics
  • Sociolinguistics
  • Forensic speech science

Amanda Izquierdo

Associate Lecturer

Discipline: Languages

Research interests:

  • Morphoacoustics

Catherine Jackson

Student Services Administrator (IWLP)

Isabel Jagoe

Head of Faculty Operations

Dr E Jamieson

Research Associate

Discipline: Linguistics

Thomas Jochum-Critchley

Senior Lecturer in German

Chair of Board of Studies

Discipline: Languages

Research interests:

  • Augmentative and alternative communication

Dr Kobin Kendrick

Senior Lecturer in Linguistics

Discipline: Linguistics

Research interests:

  • Conversation analysis
  • Interactional linguistics
  • Multimodality

Professor Tamar Keren-Portnoy

Professor

Discipline: Linguistics

Research interests:

  • Psycholinguistics
  • Morphology

Professor Paul Kerswill

Emeritus Professor

Discipline: Linguistics

Dr Ahmed Khaleel

Lecturer in Arabic

Discipline: Languages

Research interests:

  • Arabic language and literature studies
  • Quranic studies
  • Comparative literature
  • Translation

Dr Julia Kolkmann

Senior Lecturer

Discipline: Linguistics

Research interests:

  • Semantics
  • Pragmatics

Dr Catherine Laing

Senior Lecturer in Developmental Linguistics

Discipline: Linguistics

Research interests:

  • Language acquisition
  • Speech production
  • Iconicity
  • Phonological development

Dr Dan Li

Lecturer in Chinese

Discipline: Languages

Professor Carmen Llamas

Professor

Discipline: Linguistics

Research interests:

  • Phonological variation
  • Sociolinguistics
  • Language and identity

Professor John Local

Emeritus Professor

Discipline: Linguistics

Professor Giuseppe Longobardi

Anniversary Professor

Discipline: Linguistics

Research interests:

  • Syntax
  • Semantics
  • Historical and phylogenetic linguistics
  • Linguistic theory

Dr Elia Lorena López

Lecturer in Spanish

Year Abroad Coordinator

Discipline: Languages

Dr Rajalakshmi Madhavan

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Discipline: Linguistics

Professor Heather Marsden

Professor

Discipline: Linguistics

Research interests:

  • Second language acquisition
  • Syntax
  • East Asian linguistics

Dr Eloísa Monteoliva García

Director of Professional Language Training

IWLP Director

Discipline: Languages

Research interests:

  • Conference interpreting
  • Public service interpreting
  • Translation technologies

María Muradás-Taylor

Lecturer in Spanish

Deputy Head of Department for Language

Admission Tutor

Discipline: Languages

Research interests:

  • Language Teaching Methodologies and Effectiveness
  • Learner Autonomy and Motivation

Dr Yumi Nixon

Lecturer in Japanese

Discipline: Languages

Bryony Nuttall

Industry Associate

Discipline: Linguistics

Rachel O'Brien

Undergraduate Administrator

Dr Angela O'Flaherty

Lecturer in French

Undergraduate Admissions Tutor

Programme Leader for Languages

Discipline: Languages

Professor Richard Ogden

Professor

Discipline: Linguistics

Research interests:

  • Phonetics
  • Conversation analysis
  • Sign language

Daniella Oluoch

Student Services Administrator (PG)

Dr Elinor Parks

LfA German Tutor

Discipline: Languages

Dan Peacock

Student Services Administrator (Assessment and Feedback)

Professor Susan Pintzuk

Emeritus Professor

Discipline: Linguistics

Dr Bernadette Plunkett

Senior Lecturer (retired)

Discipline: Linguistics

Dr Richard Rhodes

Industry Associate

Discipline: Linguistics

Dr Simon Roessig

Lecturer in Phonology

Discipline: Linguistics

Research interests:

  • Phonology
  • Phonetics

Dr Eleanor Rye

Lecturer in English Language and Linguistics

Discipline: Linguistics

Research interests:

  • History of English
  • Placenames

Nadine Saupe

Lecturer in German

Department Disability Representative

Discipline: Languages

Professor Monika Schmid

Head of Department

Discipline: Linguistics

Research interests:

  • Psycholinguistics of bilingualism
  • Language attrition

Dr Shayne Sloggett

Experimental Officer in Psycholinguistics

Discipline: Linguistics

Research interests:

  • Psycholinguistics
  • Sentence processing

Dr Ehsan Solaimani

Lecturer (Assistant Professor)

Discipline: Linguistics

Research interests:

  • Language acquisition
  • Bilingualism
  • Sentence processing

Professor Ann Taylor

Emeritus Professor

Discipline: Linguistics

Dr James Tompkinson

Lecturer in Sociolinguistics

Discipline: Linguistics

Research interests:

  • Sociolinguistics
  • Sociophonetics
  • Forensic phonetics
  • Forensic linguistics

Professor George Tsoulas

Professor

Discipline: Linguistics

Research interests:

  • Syntax
  • Semantics
  • Pragmatics
  • East Asian & Greek linguistics

Mahendra Verma

Fellow

Discipline: Linguistics

Dr Elisabeth Wallmann

Associate Lecturer in Translation

Discipline: Languages

Professor Anthony Warner

Emeritus Professor

Discipline: Linguistics

Ross Watson

Student Services Administrator (IWLP)

Professor Dominic Watt

Honorary Professor

Discipline: Linguistics

Dr Christine Williamson

LfA Latin Tutor

Discipline: Languages

Dr Jessica Wormald

Lecturer

Discipline: Linguistics

Research interests:

  • Forensic speech science
  • Phonetics
  • Sociophonetics

Ulrike Wray

Associate Lecturer in German

Discipline: Languages

Dr Norman Yeo

PG Admissions Tutor

Programme Leader for Linguistics

Discipline: Linguistics

Research interests:

  • Syntax
  • Semantics
  • East Asian Linguistics
  • Language Contact

Dr Raffaele Zanotti

Lecturer in Italian

Year Abroad Coordinator

Discipline: Languages

Dr Eytan Zweig

Senior Lecturer

Discipline: Linguistics

Research interests:

  • Semantics
  • Neurolinguistics

Carmen Álvarez-Mayo

Lecturer in Spanish

Discipline: Languages