Directory of Languages and Linguistics at U of T

Name Department Languages Research Interests
Ali, Abdul-Khalig Near & Middle Eastern Civilizations Arabic Arabic language, linguistics, literature
Ambros, Veronika Slavic Languages & Literatures/Center for Comparative Literature Czech; Slovak Teaching a second language; style; language and culture; speech acts; Czech literature; modern drama (Czech); semiotics of drama and theatre; literary theory; women writers; exile.
Andree, Alexander Center for Mediaeval Studies Latin Mediaeval biblical commentary, philology, codicology, paleography
Anna, Shternshis Jewish Studies/German/Center for Diaspora and Transnational Studies Yiddish Yiddish; Yiddish studies; Jews and the Soviet Union
Bancheri, Salvatore Italian Studies (UTM) Italian Textual criticism; religious theater; 18th century literature, Sicilian literature; second language teaching and learning; drama: theory and performance; Italian-Canadian Studies; development of CALL software, computer research.; (Currently Graduate Coordinator and Associate Chair at UTM, Director of the Frank Iacobucci Centre for Italian Canadian Studies)
Barnes, Christopher J. Slavic Languages & Literatures Russian Modern Russian language; “functional� and literary translation techniques; Russian 20th cent. literature; history of Russian poetry; life and works of Boris Pasternak; history of Russian music (esp. Aleksandr Scriabin); Russian pianism; interaction between Russian literature and music.
Beaulieu, Paul-Alain Near & Middle Eastern Civilizations Akkadian Assyriology; Akkadian language and literature; history of Mesopotamia.
Beauquis, Corinne French (UTSC) French Program in education of teachers, CTEP; French and Francophone literature.
Bhatt, Parth French French Neurolinguistics and psycholinguistics; phonetics, phonology (French); acoustic descriptions of aphasiac subjects; French speech pragmatics (radio); French creoles.; (Currently, Departmental chair)
Binnick, Robert I. Linguistics (UTSC) Mongolian; Altaic Semantics, especially tense and aspect; bibliography on tense (www.scar.utoronto.ca/~binnick/TENSE/index.html); pragmatics; Mongolian.
Birnbaum, Eleazar Jewish Studies/Near & Middle Eastern Civs. Turkish; Turkish, Ottoman; Arabic; Persian; Hebrew Turkish: Modern and Ottoman; Ottoman Turkish language, literature, and history; early development of Ottoman Turkish as a literary language; Islamic languages: Arabic, Turkish, Persian interactions; manuscripts in Ottoman Turkish, Arabic, Hebrew, Persian; Hebrew language; Oriental Jewry.
Blackmore, Josiah Spanish & Portuguese Portuguese, Medieval; Spanish, Medieval Medieval Portuguese and Spanish; Medieval and early modern Iberian literatures and cultures; Camões and monsters, deviance, and the forbidden in literature and history.
Bogert, Ralph Slavic Languages & Literatures Croatian; Serbian The Croatian-Serbian Diasystem (lexical, syntactic, stylistic differences and the definition of official literary languages); South Slavic languages and literature; Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian cultural ethnography, history and politics; dissident writers.
Brousseau, Anne-Marie French French; French-based Creoles: Haitian Creole, St. Lucia Creole; Fongbe and other Gbé languages (Ewé, Gen, Aja, etc.) Derivational morphology and composition (theory, interface, productivity, lexicalization, compounding); St. Lucia Creole (description, morphology, lexicon, phonological variation and interference); Haitian Creole (genesis of phonological system, comparisons with sources (Gbé, French), formation from the perspective of L2); French (derivational morphology, composition, lexical semantics).
Campana, John Italian Studies (UTM) Italian Second language acquisition of dialectophones and anglophones (esp. error correction and language interference); computer assisted language learning and software; Italian cinema, poetry, novels.
Chamberlin, J. Edward English/Center for Comparative Literature Creole, West Indian (anglophone) Modernist and contemporary poetry; Caribbean literature; Aboriginal literatures and languages (cultural and political issues); stories and storytelling, oral and written traditions; theories of language and poetic language; West Indian (anglophone) creoles (relationships between speech and writing).;
Chambers, Craig Psychology (UTM) English Cognitive Science; Psycholinguistics; Language Acquisition
Chambers, J. K. (Jack) Linguistics English, Canadian Language variation; dialectology; Canadian English.;
Chasin, Marshall Linguistics English Phonetics; audiology
Cody, Francis Anthropology (UTM) English Social cultural anthropology; social and semiotic theory; political economy of representation; written language; activism; development; social movements; media-studies; postcolonial state; Tamilnadu, India, South Asia.
Colantoni, Laura Spanish & Portuguese Spanish; French Acoustic motivations of sound variation and change in Romance; phonetic variation and phonological categorization; L2 acquisition of variable sound patterns; intonation: description and modeling of Argentine Spanish intonation.
Collins, Frank French French; Umbundu (fluent); Portugese; Spanish Comparative study: French/English; Christian of Troy (the continuation in prose); transduction (French to English); Semiotics (texts: Greimas, etc.); language didactics.
Cowper, Elizabeth A. Linguistics English; French; German; Hungarian Syntactic theory; Universal Grammar; inflectional morphology; lexical semantics; tense and aspect. ;
Cuervo, Maria Cristina Linguistics/Spanish & Portuguese Spanish, modern English Syntax, argument structure, morphology, dative arguments, applicatives, clitics, neurolinguistics, acquisition (Spanish morphosyntax in L1 and L2).
Cumming, Alister OISE: Curriculum Teaching and Learning, Modern Language Centre English; French Literacy in second languages, particularly writing; learning, teaching, and assessment of writing in English as a second/foreign language; evaluation of language education programs and curriculum, i.e. for second language education and immigrant settlement; thinking processes in language learning and instruction; development of assessment instruments and procedures in academic, professional and settlement contexts.; (Currently Head of Modern Language Center);
Danesi, Marcel Anthropology English Linguistic anthropology, semiotics, youth culture; Italy, France, North America.
De Nil, Luc F. Speech-Language Pathology Dutch Neuromotor processes underlying speech production; fluency disorders (stuttering), effective ways of treating such disorders; neuroimaging of cortical and subcortical activity during speech and oral movements; speech disorders in Tourette’s Syndrome.;
Dehli, Kari OISE: Sociology and Equity Studies, Centre for Media and Culture in Education Norwegian; Swedish; Danish Analysis of policy discourse; adult literacy; sociological and political theory; feminist cultural studies; state formation and government; the social organization and effects of education policy and discursive practices.; (Currently Chair of Sociology and Equity Studies)
Dewar, Michael Classics Latin Teaching Interests: Latin Language and Literature; Roman Culture and Society;
Dresher, B. Elan Linguistics English, Old; Germanic; Hebrew, Biblical Phonology; learnability; diachronic linguistics; Biblical Hebrew prosody; the history of stress and syllable structure in West Germanic. ; (Currently, Departmental Chair)
English, Jeri French (UTSC) French French women writers in the 19th and 20th centuries; enunciation and discourse theory; feminist theory on gender and writing; subjectivity and literary canon formation; language teaching.
Feuerverger, Grace OISE: Curriculum Teacher Development English; French; Italian; Yiddish; Hebrew; German; Polish Minority language education; language loss and ethnic identity maintenance; language, culture and identity in schools; multicultural/multilingual literacy development; immigrant/refugee issues and language maintenance; cultural and linguistic diversity; conflict resolution and peacemaking in multicultural/multilingual societies.
Fox, Harry Jewish Studies/Near & Middle Eastern Civs./Religion Hebrew; Aramaic; Yiddish Sociolinguistics, esp. particular language contact involving Hebrew and Aramaic (with each other and with other languages); Hebrew and Aramaic philology; Judaism of late antiquity; talmudic, rabbinic, geonic and Modern Hebrew literature. ;
Frame, Grant Near & Middle Eastern Civilizations/Royal Inscriptions of Mesopotamia Project Akkadian; Babylonian, Neo-; Assyrian, Neo- Akkadian language (Neo-Assyrian and Neo-Babylonian dialects); cuneiform script; Mesopotamian history and manuscripts.;
Garshowitz, Libby R. M. Jewish Studies/Near & Middle Eastern Civs. Hebrew; Hebrew, Medieval; Aramaic; Greek The development of language in the medieval period (Hebrew); Hebrew and Aramaic in the rabbinic period; development of trends in contemporary and modern Hebrew; Jewish history.;
Geva, Esther OISE: Human Development and Applied Psychology Hebrew Second language acquisition; bilingualism; reading acquisition in second language learners; transfers from first to second language; second language learners at risk.; (Currently Chair of Human Development and Applied Psychology)
Girolametto, Luigi Speech-Language Pathology N/a Mother-child interaction; educator-child interaction; caregiver-administered language intervention; efficacy of group language intervention for children; language impairment; social-conversational (pragmatic) skills in preschool-aged children with and without impairments.
Gold, Elaine Linguistics English, Canadian; Yiddish Morphology; Yiddish; language contact; Canadian English; (Currently, Undergraduate Coordinator)
Grayson, A. Kirk Near & Middle Eastern Civilizations/Royal Inscriptions of Mesopotamia Project Akkadian; Babylonian; Assyrian Editing texts in Akkadian (Babylonian and Assyrian).;
GĂĽnther, Sebastian E. Near & Middle Eastern Civilizations/Center for Mediaeval Studies Arabic Arabic languages and literature (classical and religious); ethics, philosophy, and education in Islam; transmission of knowledge; Classical Islamic thought; Quran and Hadith. ;
Hachimi, Atiqa Linguistics (UTSC) Sociolinguistics; language and gender; language and ethnicity; language contact and multilingualism.
Hager, Michael German German Second language acquisition; language teaching; business German
Hall, Daniel Currie Linguistics (UTM) English Phonology; morphosyntax; semantics; featural representations.
Harrak, Amir Jewish Studies/Near & Middle Eastern Civs. Aramaic; Syriac Old and Imperial (Biblical) Aramaic dialects; Syriac language and literature.
Harvey, E. Ruth English/Center for Mediaeval Studies English, Middle; Latin, Medieval History of English; Middle English and literature; Medieval Latin; Medieval and early Renaissance; Research Medieval literature, medieval learning, especially medicine (uroscopy); iconoclasm in England; tribulation and wisdom literature.
Healey, Antonette di Paolo English/Center for Mediaeval Studies English, Old; English Language and literature of England in the early medieval period; Old English lexicography and word studies; language and culture; history of the English language; Dictionary of Old English; Old English language and literature; development of computing tools in the humanities and their applications to medieval texts.;
Heinemann, Edward A. French (New College) French; French, Old History of the French language: phonetics, morphology, syntax, lexicology, lexicography, semantics, external history; aesthetic and repetition in the songs of Geste; literary and linguistic analysis on computers.
Heller, Daphna Linguistics Modern Hebrew Experimental semantics and pragmatics; adult sentence processing; referring expressions and the identification of entities; copular constructions; generative approaches to Modern Hebrew.
Heller, Monica OISE: Sociology and Equity Studies, CREFO/Anthropology French; Franco-Ontarian Sociolinguistics; linguistic anthropology, anthropology of education; bi/multilingualism; Francophone Canada; code-switching; minority language education.
Helms-Park, Rena Linguistics (UTSC) English Second language acquisition; child language acquisition; cross-linguistic transfer in L2 acquisition and creolization; L2 lexical acquisition; L2 learnability issues; language awareness; input processing; language and power; academic writing and web-based research.
Herdan, Simona Linguistics Semantics
Hirst, Graeme Computer Science: Computational Linguistics Computer Computational linguistics; natural language understanding.;
Holland, Joan Dictionary of Old English/Center for Mediaeval Studies Old English Drafting editor, revising editor, annual progress reporter (Dictionary of Old English); lexicography; history of the English language.
Holmstedt, Robert Jewish Studies/Near & Middle Eastern Civs. Hebrew, old Ancient Hebrew and West Semitic languages; wisdom and narrative literature in the Hebrew Bible; Hebrew linguistics
Im, Hye-Young East Asian Studies Korean Korean Language and literature; Altaic languages and linguistics; second language pedagogy.
Ippolito, Michela Linguistics Formal semantics and pragmatics; modality; counterfactuals; focus; presuppositions; implicatures; tense and aspect; semantics of clitic pronouns in intensional and non-intensional contexts; crosslinguistic semantics and Romance linguistics.
Jackson, Jennifer Anthropology (UTM) English Linguistic anthropology; ethnography of speaking and performance; oratory and rhetoric; language ideologies & aesthetics; democracy, agency and subjectivity; semiotic process; relation between agency and use of metalinguistic devices such as parody and reported speech in political resistance; Madagascar (Indian Ocean), USA.
James, Deborah Linguistics (UTSC) Cree; Montagnais Language and gender; Algonquian linguistics; Semantics: modality.;
Johns, Alana Linguistics Inuktitut Syntax; morphology; Inuktitut; Aboriginal language maintenance.;
Johnson, Carla J. Speech-Language Pathology N/a Language acquisition; cognitive development; language disorders in children; vocabulary and naming skills. ;
Johnson, Mayumi Yuki East Asian Studies Japanese, English Japanese Linguistics (Syntax and Semantics) and Applied Linguistics (Second Language Acquisition and Testing); modality; language curriculum and instruction.
Johnston, Alexandra F. Records of Early English Drama English, Middle; Latin, Medieval; Latin, Neoclassical; Anglo-Norman Middle English; Medieval and Neoclassical Latin; Anglo-Norman; Director at REED;
Kalmar, Ivan Anthropology/Jewish Studies/Victoria College English Linguistic anthropology; cultural studies; Orientalism; Jews.
Kang, Yoonjung Linguistics (UTSC) Korean Phonology; loanwords; Korean linguistics; historical linguistics; phonology/phonetics interface
Kim, Young-Gon East Asian Studies Korean Korean language and literature; Language Education Theory & Methodology; Language & Culture; Heritage Language Education & Bilingualism.
Klausner, David N. English/Center for Mediaeval Studies Welsh; Welsh, Middle; English, Old; English, Middle Relations between Old English and early Welsh; history of English pronunciation; Old/Middle English language and literature; Old/Middle English drama; Middle Welsh language and literature; medieval and Tudor drama; vernacular palaeography and historical phonology.; (Currently vice-dean of interdisciplinary affairs for A&S)
Kochetov, Alexei Linguistics Russian; Slavic; Japanese; Komi-Permyak (Finno-Ugric); Korean Phonology; phonetics; phonology-Phonetics Interface; speech production; speech perception.
Komuro-Lee, Ikuko East Asian Studies Japanese Japanese linguistics and education; discourse analysis.
Kramer, Christina Slavic Languages & Literatures Macedonian; Bulgarian; Serbian/Croatian; Russian; Albanian; Turkish Russian and Balkan (synchronic) linguistics, esp. Macedonian, Bulgarian and Albanian; grammatical categories (verbal); sociolinguistic issues; issues in discourse and pragmatics; grammar of Standard Macedonian; grammaticalization of the future tense in Balkan languages; lingustic anthropology; heritage speakers; language and politics.; (Currently Chair of Slavic Languages and Linguistics)
Labrie, Normand OISE: Curriculum Teaching and Learning, CREFO French; Franco-Ontarian Sociolinguistics; psycholinguistics; language planning and language policy; language minorities; bilingualism; multilingualism; linguistic pluralism in Canada (French-speaking communities) and in Europe; discourse analysis; literacy development. ; (Currently Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies)
Lancashire, Ian English/Center for Mediaeval Studies English; English, Early Modern Computational text analysis in English literature; cognitive stylistics (cognitive psychology as applied to stylistics) and computer application; Renaissance bilingual and English dictionaries; early bilingual English to French/Italian/Latin/Spanish dictionaries; bibliography and editing; early English drama; Shakespeare; Chaucer.
Lapkin, Sharon OISE: Modern Language Centre French Classroom FSL learning and assessment; bilingual education; second language writing.;
Larson, Katherine R. English (UTSC) English Early modern literature and culture; early modern women’s writing; gender studies; music and literature; language and rhetoric.
Leprohon, Ronald J. Near & Middle Eastern Civilizations Egyptian History (esp. administration and diplomacy), religion (myths from ancient Egypt, moral code of behaviour), and literature of ancient Egypt.
Lettieri, Michael Italian Studies (UTM) Italian Renaissance Italian literature; textual criticism; second-language teaching and learning; 16th century drama; Italian-Canadian studies.; (Current Dean of Humanities at UTM)
Li, Hao English English Victorian; Nineteenth-Century Prose; Intellectual History; Memory and Narrative; Ethics and Language; Language theory and ethical discourse in Victorian England.
Livak, Leonid Slavic Languages & Literatures/Jewish Studies Russian 19th and 20th century Russian literature and culture; Russian language and linguistics; 19th and 20th century French literature and culture; literary and critical theory; comparative approaches to literary and cultural studies; Russian-Jewish cultural relations.; (Currently Undergraduate Coordinator)
Logan, Robert Physics English; physics Language origin and evolution; language and promotion of knowledge development; the effects of written forms of language including the languages of math, science and computing.
Longo Lavorato, Rachele Italian Studies/SMC Italian Language teaching pedagogy (incl. software); Italian Holocaust literature and cinema; literary adaptation in film; Italian neorealist cinema.
Luong, Hy V. Anthropology Vietnamese Language, ideology and political economy; gender and social structure; East and Mainland South East Asia, Vietnam.
Magliocchetti, Bruno Italian Studies/SMC Italian Language teaching; Medieval and current Italian culture, development, contributions.
Magnusson, Lynne English English Shakespeare; Language, Discourse Analysis, Rhetoric; Early Modern Literature and Culture; Genre of the Letter; Early Modern Women Writers.
Martin, Philippe French/Experimental Phonetics Lab French; Italian; English Intonation and syntax (Spanish, German, Netherland); phonostylistics; speech synthesis and recognition systems; experimental phonetics; prosodic systems (French, English/French contrast); print-to-speech recognition of Italian tonic accent.
Marujo, Manuela Spanish & Portuguese Portuguese Portuguese as a foreign and as a second language; bilingualism and language acquisition; immigrant experiences with focus on grandparents, youngsters and women.
Mason, Hugh Classics Greek Research Interests: Lesbos, Modern Greek Literature; Teaching Interests: ; Undergraduate: Greek Language and Literature ; Graduate: Ancient Novel, Linguistics; (Currently Undergraduate Coordinator)
Massam, Diane Linguistics English; Polynesian; Austronesian; Niuean Syntactic and morphological theory; case systems, case theory; phrase structure; argument structure; predication; the left periphery; the lexicon; word order; grammatical relations; Austronesian syntax; Polynesian syntax; Niuean grammar; cross-linguistic variation; spoken English.
McCrindle, Karen Lyda French (UTSC) French Language and media; media criticism; sociolinguistics; French creole languages of the Caribbean; issues relating to cultural diversity.
McDougall D., David Dictionary of Old English/Center for Mediaeval Studies English, Old; English; Norse, Old; Danish Old English; Old Norse (Old Scandinavian); Danish; history of English; transmission of Latin learning in England, Iceland, and Scandinavia in the Middle Ages.;
McDougall I., Ian Dictionary of Old English/Center for Mediaeval Studies English, Old; English; Scandinavian, Old; Danish Old English; Old Scandinavian (Old Norse); Danish; history of English; language and literature; transmission of Latin learning in vernacular texts of the British Isles and Scandinavia.;
McElhinny, Bonnie Anthropology English Linguistic anthropology; feminist anthropology; gender; socialization; ideology and political economy; stratified reproduction; work; USA, Canada, Philippines.
Meacham, Tirzah Jewish Studies/Near & Middle Eastern Civs. Aramaic, Babylonian Talmudic and rabbinic literature; legal/religious status; Judaism and feminism.
Merrilees, Brian French/Victoria College French, Medieval Modern French; Anglo-Normadic language and literature; editions of Mediaeval texts, Mediaeval lexicography; modern language pedagogy; transmission of texts; Bilingual dictionaries in France before 1500; French Mediaeval grammar.
Metso, Sarianna Jewish Studies/Near & Middle Eastern Civs./History (UTM) Hebrew, Biblical, Dead Sea Scrolls Hebrew Bible; Dead Sea Scrolls and manuscripts; Second Temple Judaism and history.
Mikhailova, Julia Slavic Languages & Literatures Russian Language pedagogy; acquisition of Russian; language assessment tools; discourse analysis; sociolinguistics; Slavic formal syntax; history of the Russian language.
Nagy, Naomi Linguistics English, New England; French, Montreal; Faetar; Italian Sociolinguistics, language variation and change (contact and models); New England dialects; Montreal Anglophones and French; Faetar; Toronto heritage languages; phonemic dialect features; hyperforeignization; modeling diacritics; Italian syllabic structure; variation in optimality theory; variation in “wanna� contraction.
Najman, Hindy Jewish Studies/Near & Middle Eastern Civs./Religion Hebrew, Old, Dead Sea Scrolls; Ancient Greek in Israel Second Temple history and literature; Dead Sea Scrolls; Hebrew Bible; Greek-speaking Judaism; rabbinic literature; relationship between Judaism and Christianity in Antiquity.; (Currently Director for the Center for Jewish Studies)
Narayan, Chandan Linguistics (UTSC) English Speech perception (development and contributions to language change); language acquisition (phonetic categorization); acoustics of infant-directed speech; young children and sound change.
Ndayiragije, Juvenal French (UTSC) French; Bantu Syntactic theory, ergativity, locality; esp. Bantu.
Nic Dhiarmada, Máirín Celtic Studies, St Michael’s College Irish Modern Irish language and literature.
Nikiema, Emmanuel French (UTM) French; French-based Creole (Caribbean: St. Lucia, Haiti, Martinique, Guadeloupe, etc.); Italian; Kwa (Yoruba, Abey); Chadic (Tangale); Gbe (Gen, Fon); Gur (Moore, Dagara, Kurumfe); Mande. Phonology and morphology of French, Italian, French-based creoles (Caribbean French: St. Lucia, Haiti, Martinique, Guadeloupe, etc.); African languages: Gur (Moore, Dagara, Kurumfe), Gbe (Gen, Fon), Chadic (Tangale), Kwa (Yoruba, Abey), Mande; syllabic structure; language teaching; language planning; dialect variation; tone.; (Currently, Departmental Associate Chair)
Orchard, Andy English/Center for Mediaeval Studies Old English; Old Norse; Mediaeval Latin Old English; Old Norse; Mediaeval Latin; Mediaeval Celtic; Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic literature; orality and literacy; textual criticism.; (Currently provost and vice-chancellor for Trinity College)
Pasquarelli-Clivio, Mirella Italian Studies/SMC Italian ; (Currently Undergraduate Coordinator)
Paz, Alejandro Linguistics (UTSC) Pragmatics; interaction and textuality; language and ethnicity; linguistic anthropology.
Penn, Gerald Computer Science: Computational Linguistics Computer Natural Language Processing; Mathematical Linguistics; ; Logic Programming; Linear Logics; Finite State Methods;; Speech Summarization; Linguistic Information Visualization;; Parsing in Freer-Word-Order Languages.
Percy, Carol English/Center for Mediaeval Studies English, Old; English History of the English language, esp. 1700-present; standardization; grammars and dictionaries; women's language; sociolinguistics; corpus linguistics.;
Perez-Leroux, Ana Teresa Linguistics/Spanish & Portuguese Spanish First and second language acquisition at syntax/semantics interface; infant syntax; Spanish grammar; bilingualism; number, tense/aspect, object clitics.
Pierno, Franco Italian Studies Italian History of Italian language; Italian lexicography; the “Questione della; lingua�; Italian language and religion; Italian and European linguistic policies; Italian Protestant literature (16th century); linguistic aspects of Jesuit Relations (17th century).
Pirvulescu, Mihaela French (UTM) French First language acquisition; theoretical linguistics; bilingualism (Francophone); early second language acquisition (syntax and morphology); the syntax-morphology interface: verbal agreement paradigms; integration of novel technology in teaching FSL.
Placzkiewicz, Artur Slavic Languages & Literatures Polish Polish poetry of the 20th century; problems of modernity and post-modernity; Polish mass culture and counterculture; language methodology; translation theory and practice.
Portebois, Yannick French/Joseph Sablé Center for 19th Cent. French Studies French Cultural history of the French language (16th-20th century); history of books and editions (19th century); editors and printing factories; French romance in English translation (diffusion and critical reception in England and the United States).; (Member of the administrative counsel for the Canadian Association for the Study of Book Culture and of the editorial committee for the Review of 19th Century Texts)
Rehner, Katherine Linguistics (UTM)/OISE (Modern Language Center) French Sociolinguistics; second language teaching and learning.
Rice, Keren D. Linguistics/Aboriginal Studies Athapaskan Phonology; morphology; Athapaskan.;
Riskedahl, Diane Anthropology English Linguistic anthropology; ideology and politics; collective memory; affect; the Middle East; linguistic mediation of political practices in Lebanon (authoritative discourse; social solidarity; collective memory).
Roberge, Yves French French, Canadian; French; Romance Linguistic theory; dialect variation; Romance languages; Candian French; syntax (Romance, French); morphology-syntax interface; first language acquisition (French); null complements; transitivity.
Rogers, Henry E. Linguistics Scots Gaelic Phonetics; writing systems; Scots Gaelic; phonetics and computers.;
Sandahl, Stella East Asian Studies Sanskrit; Hindi, Classical; Hindi, Modern Standard Sanskrit language and literature; Medieval Hindi language and literature; Diachronic study of certain grammatical features of Modern Standard Hindi; Classical Indian Studies; Modern and Classical Hindi; Modern Indian society and politics shown through literature; language and religion.;
Scarci, Manuela Italian Studies/Victoria College/Opera Studies Italian Contrastive analysis: English-Italian; Renaissance studies.;
Schallert, Joseph Slavic Languages & Literatures Russian; Macedonian; Bulgarian Balkan Slavic dialects; Slavic accentuation; West Slavic prosody; Old Russian syntax; accentual dictionary and atlas of masculine nouns in Balkan Slavic dialects; morpho-lexical isoglosses in Balkan Slavic dialects.
Sidnell, Jack Anthropology (UTM) English Linguistic anthropology; conversation analysis; philosophy of language; children, grammar, and interaction; gaze, gesture; sociolinguistics; vernacular poetics; pragmatics (esp. deixis, presupposition); language contact; pidgins; Guyanese, and Vincentian Creoles; Vietnamese; Caribbean, African American English.
Smyth, Ronald Linguistics/Psychology (UTSC) English; Tagalog Psycholinguistics (Interface between linguistic knowledge and language comprehension, production, and acquisition; anaphora resolution (pronouns, PRO, traces, VP anaphors, and definite NP); subject-verb agreement errors in production; working memory capacity; lexical inhibition); Sociophonetics (Microphonetic variation in consonant and vowel articulation; male/female acoustic differences and sexual orientation/gender identity); Language acquisition.; (Currently, Program Director UTSC)
Sonina, Snejina French (UTSC) French Language instruction; pedagogy.
Steele, Jeffrey French French Second language acquisition (eps. phonetics); phonology; second language teaching
Stevenson, Suzanne Computer Science: Computational Linguistics Computer Automatic acquisition of linguistic knowledge from large text corpora; predicative semantics; cognitive models of human language acquisition and processing; facilitation of learning through combining words and pictures.
Stock, Markus German/Center for Mediaeval Studies German, Old and Middle-High Old and Middle High German; language history; high medieval epic and poetry; German (mediaeval and early: literature, language, culture); early modern autobiographies (incl. Alexander the Great); birth of German Philology (16th c.).
Subtelny, Maria Eva Jewish Studies/Near & Middle Eastern Civs. Persian, Classical Classical Persian language and literature; Medieval Persian and Islamic cultural history; history of Mediaeval Iran; classical Persian poetry & mysticism; comparative Islamic and Jewish mysticism.
Swain, Merrill OISE: Modern Language Centre, Curriculum Teaching and Learning/Linguistics French; English Bilingualism; bilingual education, esp. immersion education; language testing; second language learning; collaborative learning; task-based learning.
Tagliamonte, Sali A. Linguistics English: Canadian, British, African American Vernacular Sociolinguistics (Adolescent dialect: London, Toronto, African American Vernacular; aspect); language variation; (intensification; aspect; phonetic); language change, directions of change (grammaticalization; social correlation); (Currently, Graduate Coordinator)
Taleghani, Azita H. Near & Middle Eastern Civilizations (St. George, UTM) Persian Modern Persian language, linguistics, and literature.
Taylor, J. Glen Near & Middle Eastern Civilizations/Toronto School of Theology Hebrew, old, Northwest Semitics Hebrew and Other Northwest Semitic Languages; History of Israelite Religion; Ugaritic Studies; Relationship between Yahweh and Other Biblical Deities; Ancient Near Eastern Sun Cults; The Old Testament and Archaeology.
Townsend, David English/Center for Mediaeval Studies Mediaeval Latin; Old, Middle English Old and Middle English; Medieval ecphrasis and memory techniques; religious culture in fifteenth-century Norwich; verse hagiography of the High Middle Ages; editing and interpreting texts, esp. where close philological analysis can be combined with tools of contemporary critical theory in thematics of cultural studies.
Tsimenis, Malama French French French Literature (19th century); language instruction; translation
Urbancic, Anne Italian Studies/Victoria College Italian Foreign language pedagogy (esp. Italian as a foreign language), critical pedagogy; 19th/20th century Italian literature with focus on transdisciplinary approach; oral history; semiotics and culture; Computer Assisted Language Instruction (CALI), evaluation, training, inservice for instructors; developing language courses for International Studies; first-year experience.; (Current coordinator of Vic One program)
Vähämäki, Börje Slavic Languages & Literatures Finnish; Swedish Finnish Studies. Syntax and semantics; Finnish linguistics and language variation; Finnish language, literature, and culture in North America; philosophy of language; Finnish literature, cinema and folklore; bilingualism of Finland.
Visoi, Marie-Anne French French Language instruction; instructor training.
Xie, Ming English English Twentieth-Century Poetry; Modernism/Modernity; Translation Theory and Comparativity, appropriation; Asian American/Canadian.