Faculty
Adam Agostinelli
Dept. of English
Marvin Broome
Dept. of English
31-B Coates Hall
225-578-7810
mbroom2@lsu.edu
Prof. M. Jill Brody
Dept. of Geography and Anthropology
Ph.D. in Anthropology, 1982, Washington University
Mayan linguistics, Discourse Analysis, Language & Culture, Syntax (word order, typology).
241 Howe-Russell
225-578-6174
gajill@lsu.edu
Albert Camp
Dept. of French Studies
Ph.D. in French Studies, expected in 2015, Louisiana State University
226 Allen Hall
acamp2@lsu.edu
Prof. Jon Cogburn
Dept. of Philosophy and Religious Studies
Ph.D. in Philosophy, 1999, The Ohio State University
Philosophy of Language, Mind, and Logic, Formal Logic, Theories of Concepts, Montague
Semantics
312 Coates Hall
225-578-2492
joncogbu1@lsu.edu
Juan Colomina-Almiñana
Dept. of World Languages, Literature & Culture
Ph.D. in Philosophy, 2009, Universidad de La Laguna
Applied Spanish Linguistics, Second Language Acquisition, Bilingualism, General Linguistics
309 Coates Hall
225-578-5175
jcolom3@lsu.edu
Prof. Sylvie Dubois
Dept. of French Studies
Ph.D. in Linguistics, 1993, Université Laval
Language Variation, Quebecois French, French in Louisiana, Sociolinguistics
217B Hatcher Hall
225-578-0453
sdubois@lsu.edu
Prof. Richard Godden
Dept. of English
Ph.D. in English, Washington University in St. Louis
114 Allen Hall
225-578-4867
rgodden@lsu.edu
Prof. Angeletta Gourdine
Dept. of English
Ph.D. English, 1994, Michigan State University
African-American Literature, African Literature, African Diaspora Studies, Women’s
Studies, Post-Colonial Studies
212O Allen Hall
225-578-2988
agourdi@lsu.edu
Prof. Jeremy King
Dept. of Foreign Languages and Literatures
Ph.D. in Hispanic Linguistics, 2006, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Hispanic Linguistics, Pragmatics, Applied Linguistics.
341 Hodges Hall
225-578-6648
jking@lsu.edu
Tracy LeBlanc
Dept. of English
Ph.D. in Linguistics, 2010, Louisiana State University.
210-K Allen Hall
225-578-7515
tfont11@lsu.edu
Prof. Janet McDonald
Dept. of Psychology
Ph.D. in Psychology, 1984, Carnegie-Mellon University
Psycholinguistics, Language Acquisition, Language Comprehension
223 Audubon Hall
225-578-4116
psmcdo@lsu.edu
Prof. Janna Oetting
Dept. of Communication Sciences and Disorders
Ph.D. in Child Language, 1992, University of Kansas
Child Language Development (normal and abnormal), Developmental Lexical and Morphosyntactic
Deficits
78 Hatcher Hall
225-578-3932
cdjanna@lsu.edu
Language Development & Disorders Laboratory: /cdlab/
Prof. Rafael Orozco
Dept. of World Languages, Literature & Culture
Ph.D. in Linguistics, 2004, New York University
Sociolinguistics, Colombian and Caribbean Spanish, Spanish in the United States, Multilingualism
and Multiculturalism
308 Hodges Hall
225-578-6638
rorozc1@lsu.edu
Jose Rojas
Dept. of World Languages, Literature & Culture
Ph.D. in Literature, 2020, Louisiana State University
309 Hodges Hall
225-578-2388
jrojas4@lsu.edu
Prof. Jeffrey Roland
Dept. of Philosophy
Ph.D. in Philosophy, 2005, Cornell University
Logic, Philosophy of Language
108 Coates
225-578-2388
jroland@lsu.edu
Prof. Irina Shport
Dept. of English
Ph.D. in Linguistics, 2011, University of Oregon
Language learning in adults and children; speech perception & production; intonation
& rhythm (prosody)
11 Allen Hall
225-578-2820
ishport@lsu.edu
Jeffrey Smith
Dept. of English
Ph.D. in English and Linguistics, 1987, Louisiana State University
223B Allen Hall
225-578-7806
j1953@lsu.edu
Prof. Yejun Wu
School of Library and Information Sciences
Ph.D. in Information Studies, 2008, University of Maryland, College Park
Knowledge organization systems, information retrieval systems, computational linguistics
for text analysis
267 Coates Hall
225-578-1489
wuyj@lsu.edu