Meet the Faculty | Department of Second Language Studies, Indiana University Bloomington

Meet the Faculty

CONTINUING FACULTY	CONTACT	RESEARCH AREAS
Kathleen Bardovi-Harlig Professor and Chair	bardovi@indiana.edu Memorial Hall 305 (812) 855-9877	Second language acquisition, second language temporality and tense-mood-aspect systems, interlanguage pragmatics.
Isabelle Darcy Assistant Professor	idarcy@indiana.edu Memorial Hall 301 (812) 855-0033	Second language phonology and processing, acquisition of phonology, accent, speech perception, word recognition.
Laurent Dekydtspotter Professor	ldekydts@indiana.edu Ballantine Hall 853 (812) 855-2221	(Development of) interpretive knowledge: phrasal semantics, lexical semantics and grammatically computed pragmatic inferences. Sentence processing: information integration in L2 processing.
Doreen Ewert Associate Professor	dewert@indiana.edu Memorial Hall 304 (812)855-2680	Interlanguage development, language teacher development, and theory-driven language curriculum and program design; Director, English Language Instruction (ELI).
Philip S. LeSourd Associate Professor	plesourd@indiana.edu Student Bldg. 336 (812) 855-4649	Morphological and syntactic theory, comparative Algonquian linguistics, Maliseet-Passamaquoddy.
Sun-Young Shin Assistant Professor	shin36@indiana.edu Memorial Hall 314 (812) 855-8479	L2 assessment, English for academic purposes, Language program evaluation, Web-based language teaching and testing, Statistical analyses for language study, and Heritage language teaching and learning.
Rex A. Sprouse Professor	rsprouse@indiana.edu Ballantine Hall 661 (812) 855-3248	Second language acquisition, structure and history of the languages of Western Europe (Germanic, Romance, Celtic), syntactic theory, language contact.
David Stringer Assistant Professor	ds6@indiana.edu Memorial Hall 310 (812) 855-5992	First and second language acquisition; L2 syntax and morphology; lexical and conceptual semantics.
ADJUNCT FACULTY	CONTACT	RESEARCH AREAS
Kenneth J. deJong Adjunct Professor	kdejong@indiana.edu Memorial Hall 404 (812) 856-1307	Prosodic systems in Natural Human Communication, Second Language Production & Perception, Speaking/Listening and Variation across Individuals, Phonetic Facts as Historical Pressures.
César Félix-Brasdefer Adjunct Associate Professor	cfelixbr@indiana.edu Ballantine Hall 858 (812) 855-9551	Cross-cultural and interlanguage pragmatics, politeness theory, speech act theory, conversation analysis, instruction of pragmatics.
Kimberly L. Geeslin Adjunct Associate Professor	kgeeslin@indiana.edu Ballantine Hall 853 (812) 856-5470	Second Language Acquisition (issues in the acquisition of Spanish by English-speakers). The intersection of sociolinguistics and Second Language Acquisition (language variation and change).
LECTURERS	CONTACT	RESEARCH AREAS
Linda Abe Lecturer	abels@indiana.edu Memorial Hall 312 (812) 855-4974	Second Language learning and teaching; Language Coordinator, English Language Improvement Program (ELIP).
Candis Smith Lecturer	smith548@indiana.edu Memorial Hall 315 (812) 855-7951	Applied Linguistics/TESOL, sociolinguistics, language and identity.
Daniel Thomas Lecturer	thomadan@indiana.edu Weatherly Hall 109 (812) 855-7879	Visiting Lecturer in ESL.
Kim Thomas Lecturer	kimthoma@indiana.edu Weatherly Hall 108 (812) 855-7879	Visiting Lecturer in ESL.
EMERITI FACULTY	CONTACT	RESEARCH AREAS
Harry Gradman Professor; Emeritus Chair	gradman@indiana.edu Memorial Hall 313 (812) 855-3302	TESOL, language testing, second language acquisition, English linguistics.
Beverly Hartford Emerita Professor	hartford@indiana.edu Memorial Hall 304 (812) 855-2680	Second language acquisition, sociolinguistics, discourse pragmatics, world Englishes.
Dick Bier Professor, Emeritus	bier@indiana.edu 315 Memorial Hall (812) 855-7951	TESOL/Applied Linguistics