Research areas
Department of School of Languages, Linguistics, Literatures and Cultures is the home of research areas including French, Linguistics and more, making a real-life impact with our researchers.
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Arabic Language and Muslim Cultures
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Rachel Friedman (Teaching)
Arabic language, Arabic literature, Islamic thought
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Safaneh Mohaghegh Neyshabouri (Teaching)
Iranian Studies, Middle East Feminist Studies, Resistance and Social Movements, Life writing studies, and Gender and Sexuality Studies
Chinese
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Wei Cai
Chinese language pedagogy, second language acquisition, second language listening
East Asian Studies
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A.W. Barber
Buddhism, Eastern spirituality
East Asian Language Studies
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Wei Cai
Chinese language pedagogy, second language acquisition, second language listening
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Ben Whaley
Modern Japanese literature and popular culture
French
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Ozouf Sénamin Amedegnato
Second language teaching, sociolinguistics, linguistics-literature interface, Émile Benveniste
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Marie-Andrée Bergeron
Québec literature and culture, Québec intellectuals in the 1960s and 70s, feminism, post-colonialism
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Brandon Carroll (Teaching)
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Cyrielle Faivre
19th century French literature, prisons and penal colonies, literature and visual arts, neurodiversity in French literature and culture, French and Francophone contemporary pop culture.
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Miao Li (Teaching)
18th - Century France, Language Pedagogy
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Jean-François Richer
French language, 19th - century French literature, Honoré de Balzac
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Devika Vijayan
French language, French 17th - and 18th - century travel literature, Jesuit writings on India and Canada
German
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Cornelia Burian (Teaching)
German language, film, culture, and literature
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Martin Wagner
German literary and intellectual history, comparative literature
Indigenous Languages
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Darin Flynn
Indigenous languages, phonology, sociolinguistics
Italian
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Eleonora Buonocore (Teaching)
Italian language, Italian literature, culture and philosophy in the medieval and early modern periods
Japanese
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Yoko Kodama (Teaching)
Japanese language education, second language acquisition
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Akiko Sharp (Teaching)
Japanese language, second language acquisition
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Ben Whaley
Modern Japanese literature and popular culture
Linguistics
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Angeliki Athanasopoulou
Language Acquisition, Phonology, Phonetics
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Darin Flynn
Indigenous languages, phonology, sociolinguistics
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David Liebesman
Philosophy of Language, Semantics, Pragmatics
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Dimitrios Skordos
Language Acquisition, Cognitive Science, Experimental Semantics, Pragmatics
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Dennis Storoshenko
Syntax, semantics, syntax-semantics interface, psycholinguistics, Tree Adjoining Grammar
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Stephen Winters
Phonetics, speech perception
Russian
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Elena Bratishenko
Slavic historical linguistics, cognitive linguistics, analogy in language change
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Mark Conliffe
Russian language, nineteenth- and twentieth-century Russian literature, culture
Spanish
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Nayibe Bermúdez Barrios
Latin American cinemas, Latin American literature, Spanish American literature
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Angela George
Spanish language, applied linguistics, additional language acquisition, sociolinguistics, Hispanic linguistics
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Elizabeth Montes Garcés
Spanish language, Latin American literature and film, Latin American women writers
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Luis Torres
Contemporary Spanish American Literature, Literary and cultural Theories, Latin American and Spanish Exiles’ Literature in Canada
