Teaching

Psycholinguistics I / II

Current Courses (HT 2024, Oxford)

Essay writing (Paper A) “masterclass” (W 11, Weeks 1-3)

Graduate Psycholinguistics (1997-2023)

My staple teaching at the University of Delaware (1997-2000) and the University of Maryland (2000-2023) was a two-course core sequence in Psycholinguistics.

These courses covered a lot of material in language acquisition, language processing, and cognitive neuroscience. But the focus was on how to do research, how to identify and tackle interesting research questions, and how to integrate insights from multiple areas.

The courses involved hands-on activities and intensive discussions. They presuppose no background in experimental research or statistics.

Winter Storm

Winter Storm started as an experiment in 2009, but has since become an annual fixture, ensuring that we don’t get bored during UMD’s Winter break.

Winter Storm is a 2-week intensive workshop held each January. It was started by the NSF-IGERT program in Language Science (2008-2015), with the goal of bringing together researchers from diverse departments at a less hectic time of the year. It continues under the umbrella of the Language Science Fellows program, funded in part by the NSF-NRT program (2015-2022). It typically serves 70-90 students and faculty from the University of Maryland and beyond. It is a student-led event featuring collaborative peer teaching, brainstorming workshops, diverse faculty presentations, professional development seminars, and “Science is Social” activities.

Main Winter Storm page