Graduate Faculty

Joe Pater, Professor and Department Chair, B.A., Toronto, 1987; M.A., Concordia, 1992; Ph.D., McGill, 1997.

Ana Arregui, Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director, Licenciatura en Letras, Buenos Aires, 1993; Ph.D., Massachusetts Amherst, 2005.

Faruk Akkus, Assistant Professor, B.A., Bogaziçi University; M.A., Yale University, Linguistics, 2016; PhD, University of Pennsylvania, 2021.

Michael Becker, Associate Professor, M.A., Tel Aviv University, Israel, 2002; Ph.D., Massachusetts Amherst, 2009.

Rajesh Bhatt, Professor, B.Tech., Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, 1993; Ph.D., Pennsylvania, 1999.

Seth Cable, Associate Professor, B.A., Rutgers, 2001; M.S., Amsterdam, 2002; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007.

Brian Dillon, Associate Professor, B.A., New York at Buffalo, 2004; Ph.D., Maryland, 2011.

Lisa J. Green, Distinguished University Professor, B.S., Grambling State, 1985; M.A., Kentucky, 1987; Ph.D,. Massachusetts Amherst, 1993.

Vincent Homer, Associate Professor, B.A., University of Paris 10, France, 1997; M.A., University of Tours, France, 2000; M.A., California at Los Angeles, 2007; Ph.D., 2011.

Gaja Jarosz, Associate Professor, B.A., Washington at St. Louis, 2001; M.A., Johns Hopkins, 2003; Ph.D., Johns Hopkins, 2006.

Kyle Johnson, Professor, B.A., California at Irvine, 1981; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1985.

John Kingston, Professor, B.A., Chicago, 1976; M.A., 1977; Ph.D., California at Berkeley, 1985.

John J. McCarthy, Distinguished University Professor, A.B., Harvard, 1975; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1979.

Shota Momma Negishi, Assistant Professor, B.S., B.A., University of Washington, 2011; Ph.D, Maryland, 2016.

Thomas Roeper, Professor, B.A., Reed, 1965; Ph.D., Harvard, 1973.

Ellen Woolford, Professor, B.A., Rice, 1971; Ph.D., Duke, 1977.

Kristine Yu, Associate Professor, B.S., Stanford, 2004; M.A., California at Los Angeles, 2008; Ph.D., 2011.

Faculty Emeriti

Lyn Frazier, Professor Emerita (2018).

Alice C. Harris, Professor Emerita (2020).

F. Roger Higgins, Associate Professor Emeritus (2002).

Angelika Kratzer, Professor Emerita (2017).

Barbara Hall Partee, Distinguished University Professor Emerita of Linguistics and Philosophy (2003).

Elisabeth O. Selkirk, Professor Emerita (2009).

Margaret Speas, Professor Emertia (2017).