Our international PIRE network is highly collaborative and consists of over 60 individuals from universities in both the United States and abroad. The UCI PIRE team includes faculty from Language Science, Cognitive Sciences, Spanish, German, and Education.

UC Irvine PIRE Faculty

 NameResearch Interests
  
Richard Futrell
Assistant Professor, Department of Language Science

Email: rfutrell@uci.edu
Website: https://langprocgroup.github.io
linguistics, natural language processing, bayesian modeling 
Brandy Gatlin
Assistant Professor, School of Education

Email: gatlinb@uci.edu
Webpage: https://www.faculty.uci.edu/profile.cfm?faculty_id=6342
language, reading, writing, cultural and linguistic diversity, measurement and assessment, instruction
Greg Hickok
Professor, Department of Cognitive Sciences 

Email: Email: gshickok@uci.edu
Website: https://sites.uci.edu/alns/
neuroanatomy of language, neural plasticity, neuroimaging, cognitive neuroscience
Judith Kroll
Distinguished Professor, School of Education 

Email: jkroll@uci.edu
Website: https://bilingualismmindbrain.com  
psycholinguistics, bilingualism, second language acquisition, language production, lexical processing, reading, visual cognition
Glenn Levine
Professor, Department of European Languages and Studies

Email: glevine@uci.edu
Webpage: https://www.faculty.uci.edu/profile.cfm?faculty_id=4808
applied linguistics, foreign language pedagogy, German-Jewish culture and history, Yiddish language and culture
Lisa Pearl
Professor, Departments of Language Science and Cognitive Sciences

Email: lpearl@uci.edu
Website: http://www.socsci.uci.edu/~lpearl/CoLaLab/index.html
language development, linguistics, computational sociolinguistics, cognitive modeling
Elizabeth Peña
Professor, School of Education

Email: edpena@uci.edu
Website: https://hablalab.wordpress.com
bilingualism, language impairment, test development & treatment
Gregory Scontras
Associate Professor, Department of Language Science

Email: g.scontras@uci.edu
Website: https://www.langsci.uci.edu/scontras/meaning/
formal semantics, computational and experimental studies of meaning, heritage languages
Julio Torres
Associate Professor, Department of Spanish & Portuguese

Email: torresju@uci.edu
Website: https://faculty.sites.uci.edu/juliotorres/el-areyto-lab/
heritage and second language acquisition; bilingualism; cognition; task-based language learning; curriculum and instruction

 

Penn State PIRE Faculty

NameDepartment Affiliation
Matt Carlson                                 Spanish and Linguistics
Michele Diaz                                      Psychology and Linguistics
Paola E. (Giuli) Dussias                      Spanish and Linguistics
Carrie Jackson                                German and Linguistics
John Lipski                                      Spanish and Linguistics
Carol Miller                                        Communication Science and Disorders
Karen Miller                             Spanish and Linguistics
Michael T. Putnam                        German and Linguistics
Lisa Reed                                          French and Linguistics
Chaleece Sandberg                           Communication Sciences and Disorders
Katharina S. SchuhmannGerman and Linguistics
Rena Torres Cacoullos                      Spanish and Linguistics
Janet van Hell                                 Psychology and Linguistics
Daniel Weiss                                      Psychology and Linguistics

International PIRE Partners

CountryNameInstitutionDepartment Affiliation
ChinaTaomei Guo            Beijing Normal University Psychology
ChinaNirmala Rao           University of Hong KongEarly Childhood Development, Education
ChinaBrendan Weekes      University of Hong KongCommunication Science and Education
ColombiaMarianne Dieck       University of AntioquiaLanguages and Linguistics
GermanyHolger Hopp           Techincal University of BraunschweigEnglish Linguistics
MexicoNatalia Arias TrejoNational Autonomous University of MexicoPsychology
The NetherlandsDorothee ChwillaRadboud University NijmegenDonders Institute for Brain, Cognition, and Behavior
The NetherlandsJames McQueenRadboud University NijmegenDonders Institute for Brain, Cognition, and Behavior
The NetherlandsSharon UnsworthRadboud University NijmegenDonders Institute for Brain, Cognition, and Behavior
The NetherlandsMerel KeijzerUniversity of GroningenLinguistics & English as a Second Language
PolandZofia Wodniecka     Jagiellonian University Psychology
SpainTeresa Bajo              University of GranadaPsychology
United KingdomAntonella Sorace      Univeristy of EdinburghDevelopmental Psycholinguistics

Domestic PIRE Partners

NameInstitutionDepartment Affiliation
Jessi Elana AaronUniversity of FloridaLinguistics
Thomas Allen                                          Gallaudet UniversityEducational Neuroscience
Eurydice Bouchereau Bauer                            University of South CarolinaInstruction and Teacher Education
Edith KaanUniversity of FloridaLinguistics
Rosa Guzzardo Tamargo          University of Puerto RicoHispanic Linguistics
Jill Morford                         University of New MexicoLinguistics
Luis Ortiz López                    University of Puerto Rico Hispanic Linguistics
Laura Ann Petitto                 Gallaudet University, Georgetown UniversityPsychology
Kenneth PughHaskins Laboratory (Yale University, University of Conneticut)Psychology (UConn), Linguistics (Yale)
Eleonora RossiUniversity of FloridaLinguistics
Jorge Valdéz KroffUniversity of FloridaSpanish and Portuguese Studies
Stefanie WulffUniversity of FloridaLinguistics