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
Name | Research 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
Name | Department 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. Schuhmann | German and Linguistics |
Rena Torres Cacoullos | Spanish and Linguistics |
Janet van Hell | Psychology and Linguistics |
Daniel Weiss | Psychology and Linguistics |
International PIRE Partners
Country | Name | Institution | Department Affiliation |
China | Taomei Guo | Beijing Normal University | Psychology |
China | Nirmala Rao | University of Hong Kong | Early Childhood Development, Education |
China | Brendan Weekes | University of Hong Kong | Communication Science and Education |
Colombia | Marianne Dieck | University of Antioquia | Languages and Linguistics |
Germany | Holger Hopp | Techincal University of Braunschweig | English Linguistics |
Mexico | Natalia Arias Trejo | National Autonomous University of Mexico | Psychology |
The Netherlands | Dorothee Chwilla | Radboud University Nijmegen | Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition, and Behavior |
The Netherlands | James McQueen | Radboud University Nijmegen | Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition, and Behavior |
The Netherlands | Sharon Unsworth | Radboud University Nijmegen | Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition, and Behavior |
The Netherlands | Merel Keijzer | University of Groningen | Linguistics & English as a Second Language |
Poland | Zofia Wodniecka | Jagiellonian University | Psychology |
Spain | Teresa Bajo | University of Granada | Psychology |
United Kingdom | Antonella Sorace | Univeristy of Edinburgh | Developmental Psycholinguistics |
Domestic PIRE Partners
Name | Institution | Department Affiliation |
Jessi Elana Aaron | University of Florida | Linguistics |
Thomas Allen | Gallaudet University | Educational Neuroscience |
Eurydice Bouchereau Bauer | University of South Carolina | Instruction and Teacher Education |
Edith Kaan | University of Florida | Linguistics |
Rosa Guzzardo Tamargo | University of Puerto Rico | Hispanic Linguistics |
Jill Morford | University of New Mexico | Linguistics |
Luis Ortiz López | University of Puerto Rico | Hispanic Linguistics |
Laura Ann Petitto | Gallaudet University, Georgetown University | Psychology |
Kenneth Pugh | Haskins Laboratory (Yale University, University of Conneticut) | Psychology (UConn), Linguistics (Yale) |
Eleonora Rossi | University of Florida | Linguistics |
Jorge Valdéz Kroff | University of Florida | Spanish and Portuguese Studies |
Stefanie Wulff | University of Florida | Linguistics |