Multilingualism and Language Contact
The Multilingualism and Language Contact research area explores the complex interactions between languages and the ways in which they co-exist in multilingual individuals and societies. Our faculty members investigate a wide range of interests that involve linguistic, cultural, historical, and other diverse factors. Through their expertise, they seek to answer major questions posed in this field, such as how languages influence each other in contact situations, how individuals navigate multiple languages and identities, and how language practices shape each other and evolve in multilingual environments.
Thomas Carlton
Instructor of FrenchHistorical French linguistics, comparative Romance language development, negation, syntax and structure, grammaticalization, phonetic representation across writing systems
Alicia Cipria
Associate Professor of Spanish, Director of Graduate StudiesTheoretical and applied issues of tense; Spanish aspect and Aktionsart/actionality; Spanish-English contrasts; contact of Spanish with other languages; language attitudes
Bryan Koronkiewicz
Associate Professor of Spanish Linguistics
Bilingualism, code-switching, methodology, processing, pronouns, second language acquisition, and syntax
20th Century Italian history and literature, political history, memory studies, translation and translation theory, representations of Italian language and history in international media
Annemarie Lisko
Instructor of Italian
Yuliya Minets
Associate Professor of Classics
Late Antiquity; Early Christianity; Byzantine Studies; Syriac Studies; Coptic Studies; Languages and identities in the ancient Mediterranean
Erin O'Rourke
Associate Professor of Spanish Linguistics, Director of Graduate Studies (Spring 2023)
Intonation, sociolinguistics, phonetics and phonology, and languages in contact
Ignacio F. Rodeño
Professor of Spanish
US Latina/o, Caribbean, and Mexican literatures and cultures; Hispanic autobiography and narratives of the self; literary theory, and transatlantic studies
David Tezil
Assistant Professor of French LinguisticsVariationist sociolinguistics, phonology, phonetics, morphosyntax, contact linguistics, French-based pidgin and creole languages
African women’s writing (Central Africa and Mali), Arab women writers, feminisms, cultural studies, sociolinguistics, immigration
Cheryl Toman
Department Chair, Professor of French
K. Maxime Vignon
Assistant Professor of French, Coordinator of Affairs for African and International Graduate Students in French
Linguistics, Francophone studies, international trade, geopolitics, second language acquisition