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Professor Kara Morgan-Short holds a joint appointment at the University of Illinois at Chicago in the Department of Hispanic and Italian Studies and the Department of Psychology. She directs the Cognition of Second Language Acquisition Laboratory and is affiliated with the Laboratory of Integrative Neuroscience. Her research focuses on the cognitive and neural mechanisms underlying second language acquisition, integrating linguistics, cognitive psychology, and neuroscience. She has held editorial roles for Language Learning and contributed to advancing open science practices in applied linguistics.
Education: PhD in Spanish Linguistics (Georgetown University, 2007), MATL in Spanish (University of Southern Mississippi, 1998), BA in Humanities (UT Austin, 1991).
Research interests include the role of declarative/procedural memory, attention, and context in SLA. She employs behavioral and electrophysiological methods (e.g., ERP) to study linguistic and cognitive processes. Key grants include NSF funding for doctoral research (2018–2022) and Language Learning grants (2014–2016).
Awards include the 2018 Excellence in Teaching Award and the 2009 Harold N. Glassman Dissertation Award. Her work emphasizes interdisciplinary approaches to understanding bilingualism and SLA at both behavioral and neurocognitive levels.
