Faculty
Dominika M Baran
Associate Professor in Linguistics
Office: English Department, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Box 90015, Durham, NC 27708-0015
Phone: (919) 684-2741
My main research interests lie in the area of language, identity, and migration. I am particularly interested in how migrant identities are formed and enacted through discourse and linguistic practices, such as code-switching and translanguaging. My recent book, Language in Immigrant America...
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Elabbas Benmamoun
Professor of the Linguistics Program
Benmamoun’s research has specifically focused on the following broad areas: (i) the syntax of functional categories, particularly tense, agreement, negation, and coordination, (ii) the nature of lexical and morphological relations, particularly the issue of whether lexical relations in Arabic (...
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Elika Bergelson
Assistant Professor in the Program in Linguistics
Office: 210 Soc-Psych Bldg, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Box 90086, Durham, NC 27708
Phone: (919) 660-8753
Office Hours: By appointment.
Dr. Bergelson is accepting applications for PhD students in the 2018-2019 Cycle; she accepts through the Developmental and Cog/CogNeuro areas of P&N and the CNAP program.
In my research, I try to understand the interplay of processes during language acquisition....
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Gail Clements
Visiting Assistant Professor of Linguistics
I’m a linguadork—I embrace it; I revel in this side of myself. I enjoy language: the breath, the formation, the sound, the art, the word on the page. Even more, I relish studying how and why people (myself included) use language, how we manipulate it and how we are manipulated by it. Moreover, I...
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Ruth S. Day
Associate Professor in the Linguistics Program
Office: 223 Soc/Psych Building, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Box 90086, Durham, NC 27708-0085
Phone: (919) 660-5694
Cognitive processes in the laboratory and in everyday life.
Basic Cognition
A wide range of basic cognitive processes and their interconnections, especially perception, memory, comprehension, representation, and problem solving. Special emphasis on: 1) alternative...
Luciana Fellin
Associate Professor of the Practice of Linguistics Program
Office: 105 Language Center, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Box 90257, Durham, NC 27708-0257
Phone: (919) 660-3117
Office Hours: Tuesdays 2:00-4:00 and by appointment (Languages 105)
Luciana Fellin (fellin@duke.edu) Associate Professor of the Practice of Italian and Linguistics, Director of the Italian Language Program. I received a Laurea in English and German Literature from the University of Bologna, and a Ph.D. from the University of...
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Liliana Paredes
Professor of the Practice of Linguistics
Office: 102 Language Center, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Box 90257, Durham, NC 27708-0257
Phone: (919) 660-3100
Current interests: second language acquisition of vocabulary; curricular implications of low, mid and high stakes activities to understand writing in a second language; development of intercultural competence, assessment.
Gareth O. Price
Visiting Assistant Professor of the Linguistics Program
Office: 316 Language Building, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Box 90259, Durham, NC 27708-0259
Phone: (919) 684-6561
Gareth is a sociolinguist and political sociologist who completed a jointly-supervised PhD at the University of Essex in 2009. Since 2010, he has taught in the Linguistics Program at Duke; his teaching includes the core course Introduction to Linguistics, as well as courses in language policy,...
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Alexander Rosenberg
Professor in the Linguistics Program
Office: 203A W Duke Bldg, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Duke Box 90743, Durham, NC 27708-0743
Phone: (919) 660-3047
Alex Rosenberg (Ph.D. 1971, Johns Hopkins) joined the Duke faculty in 2000. He is the R. Taylor Cole Professor of Philosophy (with secondary appointments in the biology and political science departments). Rosenberg has been a visiting professor and fellow of the at the Center for the Philosophy...
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Julie A. Tetel
Professor of Linguistics
Office: 319 Allen Bldg, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Box 90015, Durham, NC 27708-0015
Phone: (919) 681-7610
Julie Tetel (Andresen) writes in the field of linguistic historiography, focusing on French, German, and American theories of language from the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries. She is the author of Linguistics in America 1769-1924: A Critical History (Routledge, 1990, paperback...
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Michael Tomasello
Professor in the Linguistics Program
Office: 247 Soc Psych Bldg, Box 90086, Durham, NC 27708
Phone: (919) 660-8752
Major research interests in processes of social cognition, social learning, cooperation, and communication from developmental, comparative, and cultural perspectives. Current theoretical focus on processes of shared intentionality. Empirical research mainly with human children from 1 to 4 years...
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