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                              Jill Beckman, PhD
                          Title/Position
        Department Executive Officer
      Associate Professor, Linguistics
      
                      Dr. Jill Beckman is the Department Executive Officer (DEO) of the Department of Languages, Linguistics, Literatures, and Cultures (DLLLC) and an Associate Professor.
      
    
  
      
                         
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                              Emilie Maurel-Destruel, PhD
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        Associate Department Executive Officer
      Associate Professor, French
      Associate Professor, Linguistics
      
                      Emilie Maurel-Destruel is an Associate Professor of French whose primary research explores the semantic and pragmatic underpinnings of sentence structure variation and how the principles that govern this variation are manifested in French.
      
    
  
      
                         
Sue Almén-Whittaker, MA
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        Associate Professor of Instruction, English as a Second Language
      Associate Professor of Instruction, Linguistics
      
                      Sue's interests include teaching pronunciation, listening and note-taking skills, reading, and reflective learning.
      
    
  
      
                         
Daniel Devitt, PhD
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        Associate Professor of Instruction, Linguistics
      
                      Learn more about Daniel Devitt, an Associate Professor in Linguistics, at the University of Iowa.
      
    
  
      
                         
Elena Gavruseva, PhD
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        Associate Professor, Linguistics
      
                      Elena Gavruseva is an Associate Professor researching linguistics at the University of Iowa.
      
    
  
      
                         
Becky Gonzalez, PhD
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        Assistant Professor, Linguistics
      Multilingual Syntax Lab Director
      
                      Dr. Gonzalez is an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Spanish and Portuguese, the Director of the Multilingual Syntax Lab, a full member of the DeLTA Center, and serves as faculty for the Interdisciplinary Graduate Certificate on the Cognitive Science of Language.
      
    
  
      
                         
Ethan Kutlu, PhD
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        Assistant Professor, Linguistics
      
                      Ethan is a linguist studying how speech perception is shaped by identity, experience, and environment. He leads VoiceLab and co-founded the ROLE Collective.
      
    
  
      
                         
Bob McMurray, PhD
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        Professor, Linguistics
      
                      Bob studies speech perception, word recognition, word learning and neuroscience in all kinds of people.
      
    
  
      
                         
Melissa Meisterheim, PhD
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        Associate Professor of Instruction, English as a Second Language
      Associate Professor of Instruction, Linguistics
      
                      Melissa Meisterheim is the Director of English as a Second Language Programs as well as an Associate Professor of Instruction.
      
    
  
      
                         
Jerzy Rubach, PhD
                          Title/Position
        Professor, Linguistics
      
                      Jerzy is a professor in the field of linguistics at the University of Iowa.
      
    
  
      
                         
Christine Shea, PhD
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        Associate Professor, Linguistics
      
                      Christine studies how age, experience, and native language affect how adults perceive and produce a second language.
      
    
  
      
                         
Nozomi Tanaka, PhD
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        Associate Professor, Linguistics
      
                      Nozomi Tanaka specializes in morphosyntax, child language development, second language acquisition, and heritage languages.