Faculty

Anna Dina L. Joaquin Professor and Acting Department Chair of Linguistics

Anna Dina L. Joaquin

Professor and Department Chair

  • Office: ST 816
  • Email: anna.joaquin@csun.edu
  • Phone: 818-677-6319
  • Interests: first and second language acquisition, neurobiology of language, TESL pedagogy, language socialization, discourse analysis
Stephanie Hyeri Kim

Stephanie Hyeri Kim

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

Rebecca Litke

Professor

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

Kenneth V. Luna

Professor

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

David J. Medeiros

Professor

Laura Ruth-Hirrel Assistant Professor M.A. LING Graduate Advisor

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

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
Hyung-Jo Yoon Associate Professor

Hyung-Jo Yoon

Associate Professor