جست‌وجوی استاد و پژوهشگر

Julia Sushytskaمشاهده پروفایل

دانشیار

• 20th Century European Literature
• Eastern European Philosophy
• Comparative Literature
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Julia Sushytska is a Resident Associate Professor in Comparative Studies in Literature and Culture at Occidental College, appointed in 2019. She teaches courses including "Truth, Trust, and Propaganda: Postmodern Theory and the Practice of Dissent," "The Novel as Philosophy: Recollecting Lost Time," "Grotesque Bodies, Eccentric Minds: Carnival Perversions from Gogol to Žižek," and "Eastern European Myth and Folklore." Her educational background includes a B.A. in Philosophy from John Carroll University, and M.A. and Ph.D. in Philosophy from Stony Brook University. She also studied at Université Paris X during Fall 2004/2005. Dr. Sushytska specializes in 20th century European and Eastern European literature and philosophy, with research focusing on metics —those who place themselves in-between major cultures, languages, or ethnicities. Her work explores the philosophical dimensions of cultural hybridity, border identities, and the space for truth in political discourse. She has particular expertise in Russian and Eastern European thought, with extensive knowledge of works by figures like Merab Mamardashvili. Her scholarly output reveals consistent engagement with philosophical approaches to Eastern Europe, the relationship between poetry and philosophy, and the concept of "metics" as cultural mediators. Her publications span multiple languages and disciplines, demonstrating interdisciplinary approaches that bridge literary studies, philosophy, and cultural theory, with increasing attention to responses to the war in Ukraine. Book Review Editor, Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society (2019-2025) Executive Committee, Society for Women in Philosophy, Pacific Division (2023-present) Reviewer for European Science Foundation, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Brill Academic Publishers She is fluent in English and French, with native proficiency in Ukrainian, Russian, and Polish, and reading knowledge of Ancient Greek. Her multilingual capabilities support her cross-cultural research and translation work, including co-editing "A Spy for an Unknown Country" (2020), a collection of essays by Soviet-era Georgian philosopher Merab Mamardashvili, and "Both Sides Face East: Durable Words" (2025), a multilingual collection responding to the invasion of Ukraine.

• Theological Ethics
• Human Rights
• Political Theology
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Daniel Bogner is Full Professor and Department Chair of Moral Theology and Ethics at the Faculty of Theology, University of Fribourg. His office is located at MIS 05, Büro 5133, Av. de l'Europe 20, 1700 Fribourg. Contactable via email at daniel.bogner@unifr.ch or phone +41 26 300 7418. His research focuses on: Theological ethics and human rights frameworks Political dimensions of religion and democracy Social ethics in contemporary pluralistic societies Mysticism's role in modern theological discourse Religion-politics interfaces in European contexts Cross-cultural perspectives on rights implementation His publications demonstrate consistent exploration of how religious traditions engage with modern political and ethical challenges, particularly regarding democratic institutions, secularization pressures, and human rights frameworks across different cultural contexts.

Kendra V. Dickinsonمشاهده پروفایل

استادیار

• Sociolinguistics
• Morphosyntactic Variation
• Language Contact
• +۴ مورد دیگر

Kendra V. Dickinson is an Assistant Professor at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, affiliated with the Latin American, Iberian, and Luso-Afro-Brazilian Literatures and Cultures (LAILAB) program. Her work bridges sociolinguistics, morphosyntactic variation, and language contact, with a focus on Spanish and Portuguese. She holds a Ph.D. in Hispanic Linguistics from The Ohio State University (2022), preceded by an MA in Hispanic Linguistics (Ohio State, 2018) and an MA in Applied Linguistics (Boston University, 2016). She also earned a BA in Spanish from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2011). Her research employs diverse methodologies, including corpus analysis, sociolinguistic interviews, and quantitative/qualitative analysis, to study how social contexts influence language variation and change. Key topics include past participle variation in Spanish/Portuguese, language brokering among U.S. Latinx communities, and morphological learning in child Spanish acquisition. Recent projects explore digital language contact via memes and computational approaches to linguistic diversity. Her scholarly contributions span 11 articles since 2018, with 2025 publications focusing on cross-dialectal Portuguese analysis and computational linguistics applications. While no awards are listed, her work demonstrates expertise in multilingualism, heritage language education, and sociolinguistic theory.

William Idsardiمشاهده پروفایل

استاد

• Neurolinguistics
• Phonology
• Psycholinguistics
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William Idsardi is a Professor of Linguistics at the University of Maryland, affiliated with the Program in Neuroscience and Cognitive Science and the Maryland Language Science Center. His research focuses on neurolinguistics, phonology, and psycholinguistics, combining experimental, computational, and theoretical approaches. Key areas include phonological abstraction mechanisms, the neural basis of speech perception, and the computational foundations of phonological patterning. His work bridges disciplines, investigating how phonological categories are represented in the brain using neuroimaging techniques like MEG. Notable contributions address the role of categorical perception in fricative sounds, the phoneme hypothesis, and computational complexity differences between phonology and syntax. Collaborative projects explore dialect perception, infant lexical learning, and cross-linguistic vowel systems. Publications span phonological theory, neuroimaging studies, and computational linguistics, emphasizing interdisciplinary methods. His research has implications for understanding language acquisition, speech disorders, and the evolution of linguistic structure. Labs associated with his work include the EEG/ERP Lab and Maryland Neuroimaging Center.

• Bilingualism
• Second Language Acquisition
• Linguistics
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Sílvia Perpiñán is a Professor of Language Acquisition and Bilingualism at the Department of Translation and Language Sciences, Pompeu Fabra University (UPF), where she teaches courses on Linguistics, Research Methods, and Language Acquisition. Previously, she served as an Associate Professor at the University of Western Ontario, Canada. She holds a Ph.D. and M.A. in Romance Linguistics and SLA from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Her research focuses on bilingualism and second language acquisition from a formal linguistics perspective, with emphasis on syntactic structures, crosslinguistic influence, and language contact phenomena. Key areas include copular clauses, filler-gap dependencies, and the acquisition of Spanish by non-native speakers. Her work often explores sociolinguistic dimensions like regional variety effects and minority language bilingualism. Perpiñán's publications analyze structural patterns in multilingual grammars, such as relative clauses, existential constructions, and aspectual systems, with a focus on Catalan-Spanish and Italian-Spanish bilingualism. Methodologically, her studies address variability in L2 data and task effects in grammatical knowledge assessment. She is part of the ALLENCAM Research Group and maintains a Google Scholar profile with extensive writings on linguistic typology, syntax-semantics interfaces, and interlanguage phenomena. Her research consistently challenges assumptions about 'idealized' bilingual speakers and emphasizes nuanced analysis of natural language variation.

• Dialectology
• Linguistics
• Lexicography
• +۴ مورد دیگر

Prof. dr Dijana Crnjak is a full professor at the Faculty of Philology of the University of Banja Luka, specializing in Serbian Language and Dialectology. She has held the academic rank of Professor since October 27, 2016. Her research focuses on linguistic analysis, dialectology, and lexicography, particularly in regional variants of the Serbian language. She has participated in multiple funded research projects, including international collaborations on topics like linguistic competencies of the Serbian diaspora and preservation of Slovene language heritage in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Education Background: Not explicitly stated in text, but inferred via academic career progression. Key Projects: "Srpski jezik kao zavicajni – lingvisticke kompetencije srpske dijaspore Banjalucke regije" (2025-2024) "Sitnu knjigu pisem" (2021-2022) "Potomci slovenackih iseljenika i ocuvanje slovenackog jezika u Bosni i Hercegovini" (2021-2024) Research Interests: Dialectal variation, phonetics, lexical analysis, historical linguistics, and cultural language contact. Publications: Over 30 peer-reviewed articles and 8 authored/co-authored books, including Skice iz etnolingvistike (2016) and Pastirska leksika laktaškog kraja (2011). Her work often explores lexical patterns in regional dialects, phonological features, and ethno-linguistic studies. Grants & Collaborations: Active in international research networks, with projects funded by organizations like the Republic of Srpska Ministry of Science and Technology and the Fond za Izbegla, Raseljena Lica i Saradnju sa Srbsima u Regionu .

Yuwei Xuمشاهده پروفایل

دانشیار

• Gender and Education
• Early Childhood Education
• Cross-cultural Studies
• +۳ مورد دیگر

Dr. Yuwei Xu serves as Associate Professor in Early Childhood Education at the University of Nottingham since 2023, holding concurrent Visiting Professorships at Zhejiang Normal University and Central China Normal University. She founded the Global Childhoods Research Group (GCRG), co-directs Nottingham's Taught Courses (2025-2027), and leads community engagement for the UNESCO Chair in International Education and Development. Previously, she held academic positions at UCL, University of Portsmouth, and Tianjin Normal University. Her educational background includes: PhD in Gender and Early Childhood Studies, University of Glasgow (2018) MA in Child Studies, King's College London (2012) B.Ed. in Early Childhood Education, Shanxi University, China (2011) Dr. Xu's research centers on gender dynamics in early childhood education, cross-cultural comparisons between China and the UK, and inclusive practices for marginalized communities. She investigates children's perspectives on gender, culturally responsive curriculum implementation, and teacher education frameworks that challenge heteronormative discourses. Her work bridges theoretical feminist analysis with practical interventions to promote equity in educational settings globally. Analysis of her recent publications reveals consistent focus on pandemic-era parenting adaptations, cultural negotiations in curriculum frameworks, and gender representation in early years settings. Her cross-cultural methodology (particularly China-UK comparisons) produces actionable insights for culturally reflective practice, while her work on low-income family engagement addresses structural barriers in educational research. Her scientific recognition includes: BERA Early Career Researcher Award (2019) Two Nottingham Recognition Scheme awards (2021/22, 2022/23) Lord Dearing Award for Decolonizing Curriculum (2022/23) Dr. Xu currently supervises eleven PhD students across gender studies, teacher education, and higher education topics while leading multiple funded projects including the Froebelian philosophy initiative (£43,243) and Hong Kong immigrant family study (£11,927). Her grants portfolio demonstrates strong international collaboration, particularly UK-China partnerships addressing teacher development and children's rights. She founded the Global Childhoods Research Group (GCRG) and actively contributes to the Education and Development Forum (UKFIET) and Gender and Education Association, fostering international networks that advance childhood studies through decolonial and intersectional lenses.

• Psychiatry
• Addiction Medicine
• Mental Health
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Victoria Hart-Derrick is a Researcher in the Department of Psychiatry at Yale University School of Medicine. She holds a BA/BS from Stanford University (2022) and currently serves as a Postgraduate Research Assistant (PGA) for the Perinatal Opioid Use Disorder (POD) study under the mentorship of Maggie Taylor Davis, PhD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry. Her work focuses on neuroimaging studies of opioid receptors in psychiatric disorders, mindfulness-based interventions, and digital health solutions for behavioral addictions. Key research interests include the role of κ-opioid receptors in hoarding behaviors and suicide ideation, trauma-related psychopathology, and the development of feasible mental health interventions such as Taekwondo-based mindful movement therapies. She is also involved in scoping reviews on parent opioid use and caregiving challenges. Her articles highlight interdisciplinary approaches, bridging neurobiology (e.g., PET imaging studies) with clinical applications (e.g., evaluating smartphone app efficacy). Current projects emphasize translational research to improve treatment outcomes for populations including veterans and inpatient psychiatric patients. Victoria collaborates with the BABL & YIP labs and contributes to studies addressing opioid use disorder, chronic pain, and emotion regulation through dialectical behavior therapy. No scientific awards are listed, though her work reflects strong engagement in high-impact research areas.

Matthew Flisfederمشاهده پروفایل

دانشیار

• Critical Theory
• Cultural Studies
• Rhetoric and Ideology
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Matthew Flisfeder is an Associate Professor in the Cultural Studies program at the University of Winnipeg, where he teaches critical theory, rhetoric, and digital culture. His research interrogates the intersections of ideology, media, and contemporary capitalism through frameworks derived from Lacanian psychoanalysis and Hegelian dialectics. His academic credentials include: PhD (2010) from the Joint Graduate Programme in Communication and Culture (Toronto Metropolitan University and York University) MA (2005) from the same program Honours BA (2003) in Fine Arts Cultural Studies and Communication Studies (York University) Flisfeder's scholarship centers on critical analyses of digital culture, particularly the ideological operations of social media platforms and algorithmic systems. He develops concepts like 'algorithmic desire' and the 'hysterical sublime' to critique posthumanist and new materialist theories, arguing for renewed dialectical humanism to address climate crisis and AI-driven displacement of agency. His work frequently engages Slavoj Žižek's theories while examining populist rhetoric, antisemitism, and cyberpunk aesthetics in contemporary media. His publication trajectory reveals three dominant trends: (1) Systematic application of Žižekian/Lacanian frameworks to digital culture since 2017; (2) Increasing focus on the 'hysterical sublime' as a critical tool against posthumanism (2021-2025); (3) Expansion into antisemitism studies and Jewish question analyses within socialist theory (2023-2024). This evolution demonstrates his commitment to adapting critical theory for emergent capitalist contradictions in the Capitalocene era. Flisfeder is the author of four major monographs: Algorithmic Desire: Toward a New Structuralist Theory of Social Media (2021), Postmodern Theory and Blade Runner (2017), The Symbolic, the Sublime, and Slavoj Žižek’s Theory of Film (2012), and co-editor of Žižek and Media Studies: A Reader (2014). His current project 'The Hysterical Sublime' extends this work through dialectical humanism to confront anthropogenic climate change and technological displacement of human agency.

Kevin Watsonمشاهده پروفایل

استاد

• Sociolinguistics
• Phonetics
• Phonology
• +۵ مورد دیگر

Professor Kevin Watson serves as Executive Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Professor of Linguistics at the University of Canterbury since 2011, with executive leadership commencing in May 2022. His advocacy emphasizes the critical relevance of arts and humanities education in developing essential skills for contemporary societal challenges, as highlighted in his 2024 news feature championing diverse arts education. Doctor of Philosophy, University of Lancaster Watson's research centers on sociolinguistics, investigating language-society interrelationships through corpus-based methodologies and experimental approaches. His primary expertise spans phonetics, phonology, and dialectology, with concentrated focus on British English (particularly Liverpool/Scouse dialects) and New Zealand English variations. He examines how social structures shape language production/perception, sound change mechanisms, and second language acquisition patterns, utilizing large linguistic databases to analyze vowel systems, rhoticity, and phonetic gradience. His recent publications reveal a methodological evolution toward computational linguistics, increasingly employing machine learning (particularly random forests) to analyze sociophonetic variation. Collaborative work with Jennifer Hay, Lynn Clark, and James Brand demonstrates consistent focus on New Zealand English phonetic systems, while maintaining strong connections to British dialectology. Research trajectories show growing integration of forensic phonetics applications and political discourse analysis, particularly regarding economic language and immigration narratives. British Association of Academic Phoneticians (BAAP) Member International Association for Forensic Phonetics and Acoustics (IAFPA) Member International Phonetic Association (IPA) Member International Society for the Linguistics of English (ISLE) Member Linguistics Association of Great Britain (LAGB) Member Watson actively supervises 24+ graduate researchers across diverse sociophonetic investigations, including Antarctic English lexis, Scottish Parliament discourse during independence referendum, Jordanian/Pakistani English variations, and aviation safety linguistics. His Royal Society of New Zealand-funded projects examine speech covariation (2022-2025), language change theory (2018-2022), and Southland accent characteristics (2017-2020), demonstrating sustained research leadership in New Zealand's linguistic landscape.

Arturo E. Hernandezمشاهده پروفایل

استاد

• Cognitive Neuroscience
• Bilingual Language Processing
• Second Language Acquisition
• +۳ مورد دیگر

Arturo E. Hernandez, Ph.D., is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Houston, specializing in the neural bases of bilingualism. He directs the Laboratory for the Neural Bases of Bilingualism (LNBB) and holds a Ph.D. from the University of California, San Diego. His research focuses on cognitive neuroscience, bilingual language processing, and second language acquisition. He has authored influential books, including *The Bilingual Brain* and *Mastery*, exploring how learning transforms the brain and cognition. Dr. Hernandez’s work integrates behavioral and neuroimaging methods to study language development, processing, and its neural correlates. His theoretical framework emphasizes emergentist views, where language abilities emerge from multiple interacting processes. He has received prestigious awards like the Wilhelm Bessel Research Award and the Fulbright Global Scholar distinction. His research also examines the cognitive effects of aging, diabetes, and exercise on brain health. He advocates for lifelong learning, emphasizing its role in maintaining cognitive well-being. His interdisciplinary approach bridges neuroscience, linguistics, and education, with a focus on bilingual children’s neurodevelopment and language proficiency. Dr. Hernandez is actively involved in mentoring, though specific advisee names are not listed. His lab collaborates on large-scale studies, such as the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) project, investigating bilingualism’s neural impacts. He emphasizes public engagement through media interviews and accessible writing about cognitive science and language learning.

• German Idealism
• Metaphysical Monism
• Philosophy of Spirit
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Ana Munte is a researcher at the Chair of Philosophy with a focus on Kant and German Idealism at Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen. Her work centers on metaphysical monism in German Idealism and its implications for contemporary metaphysics. University: Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen Academic Rank: Researcher Fields of Interest: German Idealism, Metaphysical Monism, Philosophy of Spirit, Philosophy of Nature, and Contemporary Metaphysics Ana's research reconstructs monist theories from Hegel, Schelling, and Fichte, comparing them with modern approaches like Jonathan Schaffer's 'cosmos monism'. Her work bridges historical and contemporary metaphysical frameworks, emphasizing methodological differences in unifying reality. She has presented at international conferences in Freiburg, Stuttgart, Berlin, and Oxford, focusing on German Idealism's relevance to modern philosophical challenges. Her publications include collaborative studies on Hegel's naturalism and psychoanalysis as a science of spirit.

• Phonetics
• Phonology
• Psycholinguistics
• +۶ مورد دیگر

Yoonjung Kang is a Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Toronto, with cross-appointments spanning both the St. George and Scarborough campuses. She holds a PhD from MIT and a BA from Seoul National University. Her research focuses on phonetics, phonology, and psycholinguistics, with particular emphasis on Korean linguistics, historical linguistics, and sound symbolism. She has held editorial roles for journals including Phonology and the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics . Her work explores language contact phenomena, loanword adaptation, and phonetic perception across dialects and languages. Key areas include vowel and consonant systems in Korean dialects, the interplay between sound symbolism and language-specific patterns, and heritage language variation. Recent studies investigate how speech rate influences perceptual judgments and the role of frequency in sound symbolic gender marking. Prof. Kang’s research spans a wide temporal range, from historical sound changes in Korean to contemporary sociophonetic variation. Her contributions bridge experimental phonetics and theoretical phonology, often combining corpus-based analysis with acoustic and articulatory data. She has published extensively on topics such as tonogenesis in Seoul Korean, perceptual cue competition in sibilant contrasts, and cross-language adaptation of loanwords.

• Continental Philosophy
• Phenomenology
• Existentialism
• +۵ مورد دیگر

Simon Gusman serves as Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies within the School of Liberal Arts at Utrecht University. His academic work focuses on Continental Philosophy with particular expertise in Phenomenology, Existentialism, and Post-structuralism, applied to socio-cultural themes and questions of personal development. Dr. Gusman's research interests center on the philosophical examination of adventure, ruins, and interdisciplinary knowledge integration. He investigates how desire for adventure shapes contemporary culture and explores the existential dimensions of our fascination with ruins. His work on the philosophy of interdisciplinarity examines how radically different perspectives can be synthesized into new forms of knowledge, which informs his development of educational materials for interdisciplinary teaching. His recent publications reveal a consistent focus on Sartrean philosophy, narrative identity, and phenomenological approaches to contemporary issues. The 'Pharmakos' series demonstrates his engagement with public philosophy through digital media, while his scholarly articles examine intersections between phenomenology, social theory, and existential concerns. His work shows particular interest in the relationship between individual subjectivity and social structures. As a public intellectual, Gusman delivers lectures at major cultural festivals including Lowlands, Down the Rabbit Hole, and Zwarte Cross, bringing philosophical perspectives to broader audiences. His website (www.simongusman.com) serves as a platform for his public-facing philosophical work.

Corinna Reichlمشاهده پروفایل

پژوهشگر

• Child and Adolescent Mental Health
• Psychiatry
• Non-Suicidal Self-Injury
• +۵ مورد دیگر

Corinna Reichl is a Postdoc researcher and senior research assistant at the University of Bern's Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy. She co-leads the specialized outpatient clinic for adolescent risk-taking and self-harm behavior (AtR!Sk). Her research focuses on non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI), hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis functioning, childhood adversity effects on mental health, and early intervention for borderline personality disorder (BPD) in adolescents. She holds a PhD and has extensive clinical and research experience in adolescent mental health. Her work bridges clinical practice and neuroscience, with a particular emphasis on biological and psychological mechanisms underlying self-harm and personality disorders. She has authored numerous peer-reviewed articles and presented at international conferences on topics such as NSSI trajectories, cortisol dynamics, and BPD treatment outcomes. Key research interests include: Neurobiological underpinnings of NSSI and BPD Impact of childhood adversity on stress responses Early intervention strategies for adolescent BPD Psychopathological correlates of personality dysfunction Her presentations and publications address clinical applications of research findings, including stepped care approaches, machine learning in phenotyping, and transdiagnostic symptom evaluation. She actively contributes to training programs on dialectical behavior therapy (DBT-A) for adolescents and crisis intervention strategies.