Faculty

Anna Dina L. Joaquin

Professor and Department Chair

• Office: ST 816
• Email: anna.joaquin@csun.edu
• Phone: 818.677.3893
• Interests: first and second language acquisition, neurobiology of language, TESL pedagogy, language socialization, discourse analysis

Stephanie Hyeri Kim

• Associate Professor and Associate Chair
• M.A. TESL Graduate Advisor

• Office: ST 808
• Email: stephanie.kim@csun.edu
• Phone: 818.677.0907
• Interests: conversation analysis, interactional linguistics, TESL/TEFL pedagogy, qualitative methods
• Stephanie Hyeri Kim's Website

Rebecca Litke

Professor

• Email: rebecca.litke@csun.edu
• Interests: ethnography and communication, qualitative methods, intercultural communication

Kenneth V. Luna

Professor

• Office: ST 806
• Email: kenneth.luna@csun.edu
• Phone: 818.677.6319
• Interests: phonetics, acoustics, laboratory phonology, intonation, prosodic typology, Sp_ToBI, Caribbean linguistics, Romance linguistics

David J. Medeiros

Associate Professor

• Office: ST 812
• Email: david.medeiros@csun.edu
• Phone: 818.677.3410
• Interests: syntax, syntax/semantics interface, morphology, Polynesian linguistics
• David J. Medeiros Website

Laura Ruth-Hirrel

Associate Professor
M.A. LING Graduate Advisor

• Office: ST 814
• Email: laura.hirrel@csun.edu
• Phone: 818.677.5019
• Interests: cognitive-functional approaches to the study of language meaning, co-speech gestures, construction grammar, and language documentation

Moira Saltzman

Assistant Professor

• Office: ST 818
• Email: moira.saltzman@csun.edu
• Phone: 818.677.5025
• Interests: Language contact and language change, sociophonetics, Koreanic languages, minoritized languages and language revitalization

Ana Sánchez-Muñoz

Professor

• Office: JR 121B
• Email: ana.sanchezmunoz@csun.edu
• Interests: language variation and change, sociolinguistics, language contact, bilingualism, Spanish in the U.S.
• Ana Sánchez-Muñoz Website

Hyung-Jo Yoon

Associate Professor

• Office: ST 810
• Email: hyungjo.yoon@csun.edu
• Phone: 818.677.3563
• Interests: second language writing, task-based language teaching, corpus linguistics, and computational text analysis
• Hyung-Jo Yoon Website