This is the revised and updated fourth edition of the Directory of Languages and Linguistics at the University of Toronto. The Directory is for purposes of information only, and is intended for the use of students, researchers, and anyone interested in the study of language at U of T. Our interpretation of 'linguist' for purposes of the Directory is a broad one, and is intended to include faculty or graduate students who may not consider themselves to be primarily linguists, but whose interests include the study of language. Some examples include, but are not limited to, those listed below:
I would like to thank Jordan Dyment for updating and compiling this Directory, and Alejandro Lynch of CHASS for creating the web page. The Directory can be searched by field, or all the displayed fields can be searched globally. Clicking on a name takes you to an individual entry that contains more complete information. Comments and suggestions may be addressed to Elan Dresher at the Department of Linguistics, fax 971-2688, or email to dresher@chass.utoronto.ca.
| Name | Department | Status | Languages | Research Interests |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ali, Abdel-Khalig | Near & Middle Eastern Civilizations | Faculty | Arabic | Arabic language, linguistics, literature |
| Ambros, Veronika | Slavic Languages & Literatures/Center for Comparative Literature | Faculty | 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 | Faculty | Latin | Mediaeval biblical commentary, philology, codicology, paleography |
| Bancheri, Salvatore | Italian Studies (UTM) | Faculty | 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 | Faculty | 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 | Faculty | Akkadian (Assyrian and Babylonian), Sumerian | Assyriology; Akkadian language and literature; history of Mesopotamia. |
| Beauquis, Corinne | French (UTSC) | Faculty | French | Program in education of teachers, CTEP; French and Francophone literature. |
| Bhatt, Parth | French | Faculty | 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) | Faculty | 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. | Faculty | 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 | Faculty | 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 | Faculty | 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 | Faculty | 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) | Faculty | 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 | Faculty | 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) | Faculty | English | Cognitive Science; Psycholinguistics; Language Acquisition |
| Chambers, J. K. (Jack) | Linguistics | Faculty | English, Canadian | Language variation; dialectology; Canadian English. |
| Chasin, Marshall | Linguistics | Faculty | English | Phonetics; audiology; Setting hearing aids for different languages; Setting hearing aids for music; Prevention of hearing loss |
| Cody, Francis | Anthropology (UTM) | Faculty | 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 | Faculty | 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. |
| Cowper, Elizabeth | Linguistics | Faculty | English; French; German; Hungarian | Theory of Syntax; Universal Grammar; inflectional morphology; lexical semantics; tense and aspect. |
| Cuervo, Maria Cristina | Linguistics/Spanish & Portuguese | Faculty | 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, Centre for Educational Research on Languages and Literacies | Faculty | 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 Centre for Educational Research on Languages and Literacies); |
| Danesi, Marcel | Anthropology | Faculty | Italian; English | Linguistic anthropology, semiotics, youth culture; Italy, France, North America. |
| De Nil, Luc F. | Speech-Language Pathology | Faculty | Dutch, Flemish | Neuromotor processes underlying speech production; etiological and developmental factors, and treatment of speech fluency disorders (stuttering); neuroimaging of cortical and subcortical activity during speech and oral movements; acquired speech fluency disorders in stroke and other neurogenic communication disorders. |
| Dehli, Kari | OISE: Sociology and Equity Studies, Centre for Media and Culture in Education | Faculty | 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. |
| Dewar, Michael | Classics | Faculty | Latin | Teaching Interests: Latin Language and Literature; Roman Culture and Society; |
| Dresher, B. Elan | Linguistics | Faculty | 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) |
| Emmrich, Christoph | Buddhist Studies, Dept. of Historical Studies (UTM)/Department for the Study of Religion | Faculty | Sanskrit; Pali; Prakrits (Sauraseni, Ardhamagadhi, Maharastri); Apabhramsa; Nepali (Modern); Newar (Classical and Modern); Burmese (Modern), Tibetan (Classical); English, German, Italian, French, Polish (all Modern), Latin, Greek (Classical) | South Asian languages, Indology, Indoeuropean linguistics; Buddhism, Jainism; ritual, gender, children, mimesis, affect, education, consecration, marriage, historiography, travel and literary transfer, religious poetry and song, philosophy of time, causation; the Newars in 17th-21st cent. Nepal, the Tamil Jains of 16th-21st cent. South India, the Mons of Burma (Myanmar) |
| English, Jeri | French (UTSC) | Faculty | 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 | Faculty | 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 | Faculty | 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 | Faculty | 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. | Faculty | 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 | Faculty | 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 | Faculty | 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 | Faculty | English, Canadian; Yiddish | Morphology; Language Contact; Historical Linguistics: Yiddish; Hebrew; Canadian English; (Currently, Undergraduate Coordinator) |
| Hachimi, Atiqa | Linguistics (UTSC) | Faculty | Sociolinguistics; language and gender; language and ethnicity; language contact and multilingualism. | |
| Hager, Michael | German | Faculty | German | Second language acquisition; language teaching; business German |
| Hall, Daniel Currie | Linguistics & English, Saint Mary's U. / Linguistics, U of T | Faculty | English; West Slavic | Phonology; morphosyntax; semantics; featural representations. |
| Harrak, Amir | Jewish Studies/Near & Middle Eastern Civs. | Faculty | Aramaic; Syriac | Old and Imperial (Biblical) Aramaic dialects; Syriac language and literature. |
| Harvey, E. Ruth | English/Center for Mediaeval Studies | Faculty | 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 | Faculty | 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) | Faculty | French; French, Old | History of the French language: phonetics, morphology, syntax, lexicology, lexicography, external history; aesthetic use of repetition in the Old French epic. |
| Heller, Daphna | Linguistics | Faculty | 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 | Faculty | French; Franco-Ontarian | Sociolinguistics; linguistic anthropology, anthropology of education; bi/multilingualism; Francophone Canada; code-switching; minority language education. |
| Helms-Park, Rena | Linguistics (UTSC) | Faculty | English | Second language acquisition; child language acquisition; cross-linguistic transfer in L2 acquisition and creolization; L2 lexical acquisition; cognate facilitation; psycholinguistics of reading; electronic literacy. |
| Hirst, Graeme | Computer Science: Computational Linguistics | Faculty | Computer | Computational linguistics; natural language understanding.; |
| Holland, Joan | Dictionary of Old English/Center for Mediaeval Studies | Faculty | Old English | Drafting editor, revising editor, annual progress reporter (Dictionary of Old English); lexicography; history of the English language. |
| Holmstedt, Robert | Near & Middle Eastern Civs./Jewish Studies | Faculty | Hebrew, old; Phoenician; Ugaritic; Ge'ez (Ethiopic) | Ancient Hebrew and West Semitic languages; historical linguistics; morphology, syntax; information structure; wisdom and narrative literature in the Hebrew Bible |
| Ippolito, Michela | Linguistics | Faculty | 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) | Faculty | 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) | Faculty | Cree; Montagnais | Language and gender; Algonquian linguistics; Semantics: modality.; |
| Johns, Alana | Linguistics | Faculty | Inuktitut | Syntax; morphology; Inuktitut; Aboriginal language maintenance.; |
| Johnson, Carla J. | Speech-Language Pathology | Faculty | N/a | Language acquisition; cognitive development; language disorders in children; vocabulary and naming skills. ; |
| Johnson, Elizabeth | Psychology (UTM) | Faculty | English; Dutch | Language acquisition |
| Johnson, Mayumi Yuki | East Asian Studies | Faculty | 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 | Faculty | English, Middle; Latin, Medieval; Latin, Neoclassical; Anglo-Norman | Middle English; Medieval and Neoclassical Latin; Anglo-Norman; Director at REED; |
| Kahnemuyipour, Arsalan | Language Studies, UTM | Faculty | Persian; English | Syntax, Morphology, Syntax-Phonology Interface |
| Kalmar, Ivan | Anthropology/Jewish Studies/Victoria College | Faculty | English | Linguistic anthropology; cultural studies; Orientalism; Jews. |
| Kang, Yoonjung | Linguistics (UTSC) | Faculty | Korean | Phonology; loanwords; Korean linguistics; historical linguistics; phonology/phonetics interface |
| Kerekes, Julie | OISE: Curriculum Teaching and Learning, Centre for Educational Research on Languages and Literacies | Faculty | English, Hungarian, German | Applied Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Pragmatics, Second Language Teaching and Learning |
| Klausner, David N. | English/Center for Mediaeval Studies | Faculty | 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.; |
| Ko, Kyoungrok | East Asian Studies | Faculty | Korean | |
| Kochetov, Alexei | Linguistics | Faculty | Russian; Slavic; Japanese; Komi-Permyak (Finno-Ugric); Korean | Phonology; phonetics; phonology-Phonetics Interface; speech production; speech perception. |
| Komuro-Lee, Ikuko | East Asian Studies | Faculty | Japanese | Japanese linguistics and education; discourse analysis. |
| Kramer, Christina | Slavic Languages & Literatures | Faculty | 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 | Faculty | 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 | Faculty | 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 | Faculty | French | Classroom FSL learning and assessment; bilingual education; second language writing.; |
| Larson, Katherine R. | English (UTSC) | Faculty | 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 | Faculty | Egyptian | History (esp. administration and diplomacy), religion (myths from ancient Egypt, moral code of behaviour), and literature of ancient Egypt. |
| Lettieri, Michael | Language Studies, Italian Studies (UTM) | Faculty | 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 | Faculty | 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 | Faculty | 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 | Faculty | 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 | Faculty | Italian | Language teaching pedagogy (incl. software); Italian Holocaust literature and cinema; literary adaptation in film; Italian neorealist cinema. |
| Luong, Hy V. | Anthropology | Faculty | Vietnamese | Language, ideology and political economy; gender and social structure; East and Mainland South East Asia, Vietnam. |
| Magliocchetti, Bruno | Italian Studies/SMC | Faculty | Italian | Language teaching; Medieval and current Italian culture, development, contributions. |
| Magnusson, Lynne | English | Faculty | 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 | Faculty | 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 | Faculty | 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 | Faculty | Greek | Research Interests: Lesbos, Modern Greek Literature; Teaching Interests: ; Undergraduate: Greek Language and Literature ; Graduate: Ancient Novel, Linguistics; (Currently Undergraduate Coordinator) |
| Massam, Diane | Linguistics | Faculty | 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; English syntax. |
| McCrindle, Karen Lyda | French (UTSC) | Faculty | French | Language and media; media criticism; sociolinguistics; French creole languages of the Caribbean; issues relating to cultural diversity. |
| McDougall, David | Dictionary of Old English/Center for Mediaeval Studies | Faculty | 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, Ian | Dictionary of Old English/Center for Mediaeval Studies | Faculty | 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 | Faculty | 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. | Faculty | Aramaic, Babylonian | Talmudic and rabbinic literature; legal/religious status; Judaism and feminism. |
| Merrilees, Brian | French/Victoria College | Faculty | 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) | Faculty | Hebrew, Biblical, Dead Sea Scrolls | Hebrew Bible; Dead Sea Scrolls and manuscripts; Second Temple Judaism and history. |
| Michelucci, Pascal | Language Studies | Faculty | French | Metaphor. French poetry. Extreme contemporain. |
| Mikhailova, Julia | Slavic Languages & Literatures | Faculty | Russian | Language pedagogy; acquisition of Russian; language assessment tools; discourse analysis; sociolinguistics; Slavic formal syntax; history of the Russian language. |
| Nagy, Naomi | Linguistics | Faculty | 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 | Faculty | 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) | Faculty | 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) | Faculty | French; Bantu | Syntactic theory, ergativity, locality; esp. Bantu. |
| Nic Dhiarmada, Máirín | Celtic Studies, St Michael’s College | Faculty | Irish | Modern Irish language and literature. |
| Nikiema, Emmanuel | French (UTM) | Faculty | French; French-lexifier Creoles; Italian; African languages | Phonology, French, Italian, French-lexifier creoles; African languages (Gur, Kwa, Chadic, Mande and Bantu); syllabic structure; language teaching; language planning; dialect variation; tone.; (Currently, Departmental Associate Chair) |
| Orchard, Andy | English/Center for Mediaeval Studies | Faculty | 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 | Faculty | Italian | ; (Currently Undergraduate Coordinator) |
| Paz, Alejandro | Anthropology (UTSC) | Faculty | Hebrew, Spanish, English | Pragmatics; interaction and textuality; translation; language and ethnicity; linguistic anthropology. |
| Penn, Gerald | Computer Science: Computational Linguistics | Faculty | German, Sanskrit, Serbian/Croatian | Natural Language Processing; Mathematical Linguistics; Writing Systems; Grammar Development Systems; Categorial Grammar; Spoken Language Processing; Linguistic Information Visualization;; Parsing in Freer-Word-Order Languages. |
| Percy, Carol | English/Center for Mediaeval Studies | Faculty | 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 | Faculty | Spanish | First and second language acquisition at syntax/semantics interface; infant syntax; Spanish grammar; bilingualism; number, tense/aspect, object clitics. |
| Pierno, Franco | Italian Studies | Faculty | Italian, French, English | History of Italian language; Italian lexicography; the “Questione della; lingua”; Italian language and religion; Italian and European; Linguistic aspects of Jesuit Relations (17th century). |
| Pirvulescu, Mihaela | French (UTM) | Faculty | 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 | Faculty | Polish | Polish poetry of the 20th century; problems of modernity and post-modernity; Polish mass culture and counterculture; language methodology; translation theory and practice. |
| Poole, Janet | East Asian Studies | Faculty | Korean | |
| Portebois, Yannick | French Studies | Faculty | French | Cultural history of the French language (16th-20th century); spelling reforms; book history and print culture (19th century); French novels in English translation (diffusion and critical reception in England and the United States). |
| Rehner, Katherine | Linguistics (UTM)/OISE (Curriculum, Teaching and Learning) | Faculty | French | Sociolinguistics; second language teaching and learning. |
| Rice, Keren D. | Linguistics/Aboriginal Studies | Faculty | Athapaskan | Phonology; morphology; Athapaskan.; |
| Riskedahl, Diane | Anthropology | Faculty | English, Lebanese colloquial and Modern Standard Arabic | Linguistic anthropology; ideology and politics; Lebanese political rhetoric; collective memory; affect; the Middle East; political graffiti and advertising in Lebanon. |
| Roberge, Yves | French | Faculty | 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. |
| Rupprecht, Hsiao-Wei | East Asian Studies | Faculty | Chinese | Incorporating contemporary Chinese fiction and film into the Chinese language classroom; technology in Chinese language instruction and learning; modern Chinese literature. |
| Sandahl, Stella | East Asian Studies | Faculty | 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 | Faculty | Italian | Contrastive analysis: English-Italian; Renaissance studies.; |
| Schallert, Joseph | Slavic Languages & Literatures | Faculty | 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. |
| Shternshis, Anna | Jewish Studies/German/Center for Diaspora and Transnational Studies | Faculty | Yiddish | Yiddish; Yiddish studies; Jews and the Soviet Union |
| Sidnell, Jack | Anthropology (UTM) | Faculty | 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) | Faculty | 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) |
| Spada, Nina | OISE: Curriculum, Teaching and Learning | Faculty | Applied linguistics, second language acquisition. | |
| Steele, Jeffrey | French | Faculty | French | Second language acquisition (eps. phonetics); phonology; second language teaching |
| Stevenson, Suzanne | Computer Science: Computational Linguistics | Faculty | 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 | Faculty | German, Old, Middle High, Early Modern; Old Saxon | Old and Middle High German; language history; high medieval epic and poetry; German (mediaeval and early: literature, language, culture); birth of German Philology (16th c.). |
| Subtelny, Maria Eva | Near & Middle Eastern Civs. | Faculty | 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 | Faculty | French; English | Bilingualism; bilingual education, esp. immersion education; language testing; second language learning; collaborative learning; task-based learning. |
| Tagliamonte, Sali A. | Linguistics | Faculty | 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) | Faculty | Persian | Modern Persian language, linguistics, and literature. |
| Taylor, J. Glen | Near & Middle Eastern Civilizations/Toronto School of Theology | Faculty | 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 | Faculty | 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 | Faculty | French | French Literature (19th century); language instruction; translation |
| Urbancic, Anne | Italian Studies/Victoria College | Faculty | 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, Frye and Pearson Streams) |
| Vähämäki, Börje | Slavic Languages & Literatures | Faculty | 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. |
| Villeneuve, Anne-José | French | Faculty | French; Haitian Creole | Sociolinguistics, language variation and change; language contact; French varieties spoken in Northern France and North America; Picardy French; phonemic dialect features; language and gender; language and ethnicity |
| Visoi, Marie-Anne | French | Faculty | French | Textual criticism relating to reader-response theories; 20th century novel; French Cultural Studies; second language teaching and learning; action research models for language instructor training;implementation, development and assessment of Blackboard Learning Communities; integration of experiential learning in advanced-level French through internship and service projects |
| Xie, Ming | English | Faculty | English | Modernist and twentieth-century poetry and poetics; theory and practice of translation; hermeneutics; comparative intercultural theory. |
| Young, Abigail Ann | Records of Early English Drama | Other | Latin (Classical, Late, and Medieval), Greek (Classical and NT), Anglo-French | palaeography, Anglo-Latin vocabulary, mediaeval New Testament exegesis |