Dr. Jill Beckman is the Department Executive Officer (DEO) of the Department of Languages, Linguistics, Literatures, and Cultures (DLLLC) and an Associate Professor.

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.

Learn more about Daniel Devitt, an Associate Professor in Linguistics, at the University of Iowa.

Sarah Fagan’s research and teaching interests include Germanic linguistics, theoretical linguistics, and the German language

Elena Gavruseva is an Associate Professor researching linguistics at the University of Iowa.

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 is a linguist studying how speech perception is shaped by identity, experience, and environment. He leads VoiceLab and co-founded the ROLE Collective.

Bob studies speech perception, word recognition, word learning and neuroscience in all kinds of people.

Melissa Meisterheim is the Director of English as a Second Language Programs as well as an Associate Professor of Instruction.

Jerzy is a professor in the field of linguistics at the University of Iowa.

Christine studies how age, experience, and native language affect how adults perceive and produce a second language.

Nozomi Tanaka specializes in morphosyntax, child language development, second language acquisition, and heritage languages.