Faculty

	NAME	DEPARTMENT	RESEARCH	EMAIL
	Harriet Wood Bowden Associate Professor & Linguistics Program Vice Chair	WLC (Spanish)	Second Language Acquisition, Psycholinguistics, Cognitive Neuroscience of Language	hbowden1@utk.edu
	Clara Lee Brown Associate Professor	Theory & Practice in Teacher Education	Academic language proficiency, Content-Based ESL learning, Equity issues in Testing Programs, and Bilingual/bicultural Identity	cbrown26@utk.edu
	Aris Clemons Assistant Professor	WLC (Spanish)	Conversation Analysis, Discourse Analysis, Sociolinguistics, Raciolinguistics, Linguistic Ideologies, Linguistic Anthropology, and Sociology of Language
	James Coda Assistant Professor	Theory & Practice in Teacher Education	LGBTQIA+ issues in language education, queer theory and pedagogies, gender and sexuality, and identity.	jcoda@utk.edu
	Rima El abdali Assistant Professor	English	Educational linguistics, sociolinguistics, multilingualism, critical pedagogy	rima.elabdali@utk.edu
	Rodica Frimu Assistant Professor	WLC (French)	Second Language Acquisition, Psycholinguistics, French Linguistics	rfrimu@utk.edu
	Maria Gallmeier Distinguished Lecturer	WLC (German)	Tense and Aspect Systems, Grammaticalization, History of Linguistics, Historical Linguistics, Teaching Methodology	mgallmei@utk.edu
	Yen-Chen Hao Associate Professor & Linguistics Program Chair	WLC (Chinese)	Phonetics, Second Language Acquisition, Chinese Linguistics	yhao6@utk.edu
	Craig D. Howard Assistant Professor	Educational Psychology and Counseling	Discourse Analysis, Professional Discourse, Computer-mediated Communication, Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL), Instructional Design	cdh@utk.edu
	Thorsten Huth Associate Professor	WLC (German)	Pragmatics & Interaction, Second Language Acquisition, FL/SL Pedagogy	huth@utk.edu
	Bernard Issa Associate Professor	WLC (Spanish)	Second Language Acquisition, Bilingual Language Processing, Eye-tracking, Psycholinguistics	bissa@utk.edu
	Gregory Kaplan Professor	WLC (Spanish)	Historical Linguistics, History of Spanish, Sociolinguistics, Medieval and Early Modern Spanish Literature, Converse Literature, Sephardic Studie	gkaplan@utk.edu
	Laurie Knox Senior Lecturer	English	English as a Second Language, Linguistics, Technical and Professional Writing	lknox1@utk.edu
	Roy Liuzza Distinguished Professor in the Humanities	English	Old English, Middle English, and History of the English Language	rliuzza@utk.edu
	Hooman Saeli Senior Lecturer	English	L2 Writing, Feedback, and Persian Sociolinguistics	hsaeli@utk.edu
	Tanita Saenkhum Associate Professor	English	Second Language Writing, Assessment, Placement, Writing Teacher Education	tsaenkhum@utk.edu
	Phillip Stokes Assistant Professor	WLC (Arabic)	Historical Linguistics; Contact Linguistics; Dialectology; Semitic Languages; Arabian Epigraphy; Ancient Near Eastern Writing and Scribal Traditions	pstokes2@utk.edu
	Kimberly Wolbers Professor	Theory & Practice in Teacher Education (Deaf Education)	Applied Linguistics, Reading, Writing and Literacy	kwolbers@utk.edu