Faculty & Staff
Professor of Literature and Linguistics
William Judson Gaines Chair in Modern Foreign Languages
Interdisciplinary Program Coordinator, Linguistics
Specialties:
- Sociolinguistics
- Language and race
- American dialectology
- Historical linguistics
- Linguistic relativism
- Psychoanalysis
- Comparative literature
(804) 289-8102
Professor of Data Science and Statistics
Specialties:
- Data Science
- Digital Humanities
- Linguistics
Associate Professor of Spanish
Specialties:
- Spanish morphosyntax
- Heritage speaker bilingualism
- Second language acquisition
- Cross-linguistic influence/transfer
- Code-switching
- Third language acquisition
(804) 484-1543
Associate Professor of Spanish and Applied Linguistics
Chair, Department of Latin American, Latino, & Iberian Studies
Specialties:
- Second language acquisition
- Language teaching methods
- Phonetics and pronunciation instruction
(804) 287-6459
Dr. Matthew Lowder
He/Him
Associate Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Science Coordinator
Data Science Advisory Board Member
Specialties:
- Psycholinguistics
- Lexical, syntactic, and semantic processing
- Eye movements during reading
- Individual differences in sentence processing
- Mechanisms of memory and attention that support language comprehension
(804) 662-3078
Teaching Faculty of Literatures, Languages, and Cultures
Director, Global Studio
Specialties:
- Technology-enhanced learning
- Russian literature and culture
- Linguistics
- Intellectual history in the sciences
- Translation
(804) 287-6838
Associate Professor of Computer Science
Data Science Advisory Board Member
Cognitive Science Advisory Board Member
Specialties:
- Data science
- Natural language processing
- Argumentation
(804) 287-6549
Jaime Rung
She/Her
Dr. Jorge Wong Medina
He/Him
Assistant Professor of Classical Studies
Specialties:
- Archaic Greek Poetry
- Greek Dialectology
- Historical Linguistics
- Food in the Ancient World