Faculty

Faculty members of interest to the Dual Graduate Track in Hispanic Linguistics

Becker, Misha (Linguistics)
mbecker@email.unc.edu
Professor of Linguistics, Chair of the Department of Linguistics
Research interests: Psycholinguistics, language acquisition, cognitive linguistics

Binotti, Lucia (Romance Studies)
lbinotti@email.unc.edu
Professor of Spanish and Digital Humanities, Graduate Advisor of Hispanic Linguistics in Romance Studies
Research interests: Sociolinguistics, Spanish philology, linguistic historiography

Demsey, Laura (Romance Studies)
ldemsey@unc.edu
Teaching Associate Professor of French
Research interests: Language contact, first- and second-language acquisition

Estigarribia, Bruno (Romance Studies)
estigarr@email.unc.edu
Professor of Hispanic Linguistics, Chair of the Department of Romance Studies
Research interests: Syntax, Guaraní linguistics, language development and acquisition

Graham, Lamar A. (Romance Studies)
lagraham@email.unc.edu
Associate Professor of Hispanic Linguistics, Director of Graduate Studies in Romance Studies
Research interests: Historical linguistics, comparative linguistics, sociolinguistics

Hsu, Brian (Linguistics)
hsub@email.unc.edu
Assistant Professor of Linguistics
Research interests: Syntax, phonology, linguistic interfaces

Kohl, Anastasia (Romance Studies)
kohl@email.unc.edu
Teaching Professor of Spanish, Director of Spanish Language Instruction
Coordinator of all Spanish Teaching Assistants

López López, Giovani (Romance Studies)
giolopez@unc.edu
Teaching Assistant Professor of Spanish
Research interests: Spanish pedagogy, sociopragmatics, morphosyntax

Maqueda Jiménez, Raquel (Romance Studies)
maqueda@unc.edu
Teaching Assistant Professor of Spanish

Mora-Marín, David (Linguistics)
davidmm@email.unc.edu
Professor of Linguistics
Research interests: Historical linguistics, Mayan linguistics

Moreton, Elliott (Linguistics)
moreton@email.unc.edu
Professor of Linguistics, Director of Graduate Studies and Graduate Admissions in Linguistics
Research interests: Phonetics, phonology

Pertsova, Katya (Linguistics)
pertsova@email.unc.edu
Associate Professor of Linguistics
Research interests: Computational linguistics, psycholinguistics

Rodríguez, Jamilläh (Linguistics)
jamillah@email.unc.edu
Assistant Professor of Linguistics
Research interests: Mesoamerican languages, Brazilian Portuguese

Roberge, Paul (Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures, Linguistics)
ptr@email.unc.edu
Professor of Germanic Languages, Joint Professor of Linguistics
Research interests: Pidgins and creoles, historical linguistics, Germanic linguistics

Ruiz García, Martha (Romance Studies)
ruizgar@email.unc.edu
Teaching Professor of Spanish
Research interests: Language contact and dialectology, African influence in the Spanish language

Smith, Caitlin (Linguistics)
csmith14@email.unc.edu
Teaching Assistant Professor of Linguistics
Research interests: Phonology, phonetics, computational linguistics

Smith, Jennifer L. (Linguistics)
jlsmith@email.unc.edu
Professor of Linguistics, Associate Chair of the Department of Linguistics
Research interests: Phonetics, phonology

Terry, J. Michael (Linguistics)
terryjm@email.unc.edu
Associate Professor of Linguistics
Research interests: Natural language semantics, African-American English

Venegas, Melissa (Romance Studies)
meliv@unc.edu
Teaching Assistant Pofessor of Spanish
Research interests: Spanish applied linguistics, pedagogy