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Role: Faculty

Amy Walton

B.A., University of Northern Iowa; M.A., Iowa State University), Lecturer for the English Department, teaches courses in composition, rhetoric, ESL, grammar, and ESL methods. She is a recipient of the Teaching Excellence Award. Her interests include teacher education, cross-cultural communication,...

Gulbahar Beckett

Professor [ENGL]

(M.Ed., Queen’s University; Ph.D., University of British Columbia), Professor of TESL/Applied Linguistics, focuses on project-based second/foreign language acquisition and socialization; Content-based second/foreign language (a.k.a English as a medium of instruction/learning); Second and minority language policies; Technology integrated teaching and learning;...

Volker Hegelheimer

Professor and Chair [ENGL]

(M.A., Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Professor, researches applications of emerging technologies in language learning and language testing. His publications have appeared in journals such as Language Learning & Technology, Language Testing, System, Computer-Assisted Language Learning, ReCALL, CALICO Journal,...

Horabail Venkatagiri

Associate Professor [PSYCH]

(Ph. D., Bowling Green State University, Ohio) is an Associate Professor of Psychology Department. He teaches courses in Communication Disorders and has research interest in stuttering, English as a Second Language, and phonology and phonetics.

Cristina Pardo-Ballester

Associate Professor [WLC]

(M.A., University of Nevada, Reno; Ph.D., University of California, Davis), Associate Professor of Spanish Linguistics, Department of World Languages and Cultures, has research interests in Computer-Assisted Language Learning, Instructional Material Design, translation studies, and second language assessment.

Charles L. Nagle

Assistant Professor [WLC]

(M.S. and Ph.D., Georgetown University), Assistant Professor of Spanish and Director of the Lower-Division Spanish Language Program, Department of World Languages and Cultures, investigates how individuals acquire second or foreign language sound systems with a particular focus on Spanish as...

Sarah Davis

Senior Lecturer [ENGL]

(B.A. English, UC Berkeley; M.A. TESL/AL, Iowa State University), Lecturer, Department of English, has a professional degree in classroom teaching k-12 and uses that expertise to inform her work on developing and administering the curriculum for the ESL Academic Writing...

Annemarie Butler

Associate Professor [PH RS]

(Ph.D., The University of Iowa), Associate Professor of Philosophy & Religious Studies Department, specializes in 17th and 18th century European philosophy, with special emphasis on the metaphysics and epistemology of David Hume. She was co-editor of The Cambridge Companion to...

Sowmya Vajjala

Assistant Professor [ENGL]

(M.S., International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad; Ph.D., Eberhard Karls University of Tuebingen, Germany), Assistant Professor of TESL/Applied Linguistics, is a computational linguist and is interested in the application of Natural Language Processing and computational methods for educational applications. Her...

Tammy Slater

Associate Professor [ENGL]

(M.A. and Ph.D., University of British Columbia), Associate Professor, draws upon analytic methods from Systemic Functional Linguistics to investigate and understand the development of academic language through content-based and project-based teaching and learning, particularly in ways that inform and advance...

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