Amanda Rysling

Amanda Rysling is an Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC). She is affiliated with the Teaching & Learning Center as a 2024-2025 faculty fellow, focusing on improving teaching practices to address inequities faced by transfer students in linguistics coursework. Her research explores how language comprehension and representation are shaped by contextual factors, including prosody, syntax, and pragmatics.

Her teaching spans phonology, quantitative statistics in linguistics, and the physics of phonetics, emphasizing interdisciplinary challenges. She advocates for curricular accessibility, particularly regarding knowledge transfer across sub-disciplines like syntax, semantics, and phonetics.

Her research interests include prosodic processing, pragmatic representations in discourse, and the cognitive mechanisms underlying language comprehension. Recent work examines the role of prosodic accents in phoneme detection, stress repair in metrical structures, and appositive structures’ semantic effects. Articles highlight methodological innovations such as pupillometry and eye-tracking to study real-time language processing.

While no scientific awards are listed, her contributions to pedagogical equity and linguistic inquiry are central to her profile. She actively engages in grant-funded initiatives through UCSC’s Teaching & Learning Center to refine inclusive teaching strategies.