UW-Milwaukee - College of Letters and Science

Plan D Faculty

Core Faculty

Fred Eckman, Ph.D. in Linguistics, Indiana University
Email: eckman@uwm.edu
Office: 889 Curtin Hall
Office Phone: 414-229-5349

Greg Iverson, Ph.D. in Linguistics, University of Minnesota
Email: iverson@uwm.edu
Office: 885 Curtin Hall
Office Phone: 414-229-4285

Pat Mayes, Ph.D. in Linguistics, University of California, Santa Barbara
Email: mayes@uwm.edu
Office: 486 Curtin Hall
Office Phone: 414-229-6992

Edith Moravcsik, Ph.D. in Linguistics, Indiana University
Email: edith@uwm.edu
Office: 883 Curtin Hall
Office Phone: 414-229-6794

Mickey Noonan, Ph.D. in Linguistics, UCLA
Email: noonan@uwm.edu
Office: 386 Curtin Hall
Office Phone: 414-229-4539

Associated Faculty & Staff

Cheryl Ajirotutu, Ph.D. Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley
Linguistic anthropology

Anita Alkhas, Ph.D. French, Michigan State University
Foreign language pedagogy

Mary Louise Buley-Meissner, Ph.D. English, University of Washington
Basic writing, cross-cultural studies, multi-cultural pedagogy, teacher education

Yea-Fen Chen, Ph.D. Chinese, Indiana University
Chinese language

David Clark, Ph.D. Rhetoric and Professional Communication, Iowa State University
Rhetoric of technology, technical writing

Roberta Corrigan, Ph.D. Psychology, University of Denver
Child language acquisition

Helena Curtain, Ph.D. Curriculum and Instruction, UWM
Second language acquisition and pedagogy

Garry Davis, Ph.D. German, University of Michigan
Germanic philology, linguistics

Kathryn Dindia, Ph.D. Communication, University of Washington
Sex differences and similarities in communication behavior

Alice Gillam, Ph.D. English, Ball State University
Composition theory, history of rhetoric

John Koethe, Ph.D. Philosophy, Harvard University
Philosophy of language, theories of semantics

Larry Kuiper, Ph.D. French, Michigan State University
Sociolinguistics, phonetics, foreign language pedagogy

Susan Lima, Ph.D. Psychology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Psychology of reading, mental lexicon

Susan McRoy, Ph.D. Computer Science, University of Toronto
Computational linguistics

Michael Mikos, Ph.D. Linguistics, Brown University
Slavic linguistics, applied linguistics

Sandra Pucci, Ph.D. Education, University of Southern California
Bilingual Education

Peter Sands, Ph.D.,
Rhetoric and composition, computers and pedagogy, critical theory and cultural studies

Jeanne Schueller, Ph.D. German, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Second language acquisition, language pedagogy

Charles Schuster, Ph.D. English, University of Iowa
History and theory of the essay, Bakhtinian theory, history of composition studies

Robert Schwartz, Ph.D. Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania
Philosophy of language, theories of language acquisition and use

Rachel Spilka, Ph.D. Rhetoric, Carnegie Mellon University
Professional, technical, and business writing; rhetoric, qualitative research, professional writing theory, and pedagogy; document planning and evaluation

Karudapuram Supriya, Ph.D. Communication, University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana
Relations among culture, communication, gender and national identity in diverse contexts

William Van Pelt, Ph.D. English, University of California, Santa Cruz
Contemporary rhetorical theory, technical writing, writing for information technology, business writing

William Washabaugh, Ph.D. Anthropology, Wayne State University
Linguistic anthropology, creoles, sign languages

Kathleen Wheatley, Ph.D. Spanish, University of Michigan
Hispanic linguistic, historical linguistics, grammaticalization

Staff of the ESL composition program and the Intensive English Program


Emeritus Professor

Pamela Downing, Ph.D. in Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley
Email: downing@uwm.edu
Office: 488 Curtin Hall
Office Phone: 414-229-4533

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