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The faculty in the Department of Linguistics have interests that cover all core areas of linguistics as well as language instruction.

Please contact our staff for more information about the Department of Linguistics or to be put in touch with one of our faculty members.

Faculty and Staff

Headshot - Kelly Bambrick

Kelly Bambrick
Special Lecturer
michiya@oakland.edu

Headshot -Rebecca Gaydos

Rebecca Gaydos
Special Instructor
Applied linguistics, Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages
116 Fitzgerald House
(248) 370-2176
gaydos@oakland.edu

Headshot -Linda Hubarth

Linda Hubarth
Linguistics Office Assistant II
450K Pawley Hall
(248) 370-2175
hubarth@oakland.edu

Headshot -Gleice Jones

Gleice Jones
Lecturer
gosilva@oakland.edu

Headshot -Alexandria Murphy

Alexandria Murphy
Lecturer
acmurphy@oakland.edu

Headshot -Kuniko Nielsen

Kuniko Nielsen
Associate Professor, Department Chair
Phonetics, Psycholinguistics, Speech Perception and Production
118 Fitzgerald House
(248) 364-8807
nielsen@oakland.edu

Headshot -Jason Overfelt

Jason Overfelt
Assistant Professor
Syntax, Syntax-Semantics Interface, Experimental Linguistics
117 Fitzgerald House
(248) 364-8848
overfelt@oakland.edu

Headshot -Claudia Pilarski

Claudia Pilarski
Linguistics Graduate Assistant
121 Fitzgerald House
cjpilarski@oakland.edu

Headshot -Helena Riha

Helena Riha
Special Lecturer
riha2@oakland.edu

Headshot -Samuel Rosenthall

Samuel Rosenthall
Associate Professor, Undergraduate Advisor, Graduate Advisor
Phonology
115 Fitzgerald House
(248) 364-8805
srosenth@oakland.edu

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Michael B. Smith
Professor
Cognitive Linguistics, Syntax and Semantics, German and Russian Linguistics
114 Fitzgerald House
(248) 364-8811
smith@oakland.edu

Headshot -Angela Super

Angela Super
Special Lecturer
super@oakland.edu

Headshot -Rhonda Yates

Rhonda Yates
Special Lecturer
rmyatesr@oakland.edu

Affiliated Faculty

A headshot of Hisiang-Hua Melanie Chang

Hsiang-Hua (Melanie) Chang
Associate Professor of Chinese
Chinese Linguistics, First and Second Language Acquisition, Language Pedagogy and Assessment
362 O'Dowd Hall
(248) 370-4248
chang23@oakland.edu

A headshot of Akiko Kashiwagi-Wood

Akiko Kashiwagi-Wood
Associate Professor of Japanese
Second Language Acquisition, Japanese/Foreign Language Pedagogy, Sentence Processing
360 O'Dowd Hall
(248) 370-4565
kashiwag@oakland.edu

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Raquel Prieta
Assistant Professor of Spanish
Second Language Acquisition, Bilingual Sentence Processing, Language Instruction Methodology
373 O'Dowd Hall
(248) 370-2153
rprieta@oakland.edu

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Peter J. Binkert
Professor Emeritus
(Linguistics, Classics)

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Daniel H. Fullmer
Professor Emeritus
(Linguistics, English)

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William Schwab
Professor Emeritus
(Linguistics, English)