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Language Studies

Adrien Rannaud

Assistant Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Celebrity Culture
  • Middlebrow Culture / Popular Culture
  • Press and Literature
  • Quebec Literature and Culture
  • Women’s Writing in France and Quebec

Office: (905) 569-4580
Mobile: 418 208 1103
Languages: French, English
Website
Email: adrien.rannaud@utoronto.ca
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Arsalan Kahnemuyipour

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Agreement
  • Clitics
  • Iranian languages.
  • Linkers
  • Wh-questions

Office: (905) 828-5497
Languages: Persian
Website
Email: a.kahnemuyipour@utoronto.ca
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Corinne Beauquis

Associate Professor, Teaching Stream

Areas of Expertise

  • Education of teachers of French
  • Experiential Learning
  • Haitian Literature
  • Migrant literature

Office: (416) 287-7140
Languages: French
Website
Email: corinne.beauquis@utoronto.ca
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Derek Denis

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Canadian English
  • Grammaticalization of pragmatic markers
  • Language and settler colonialism
  • Language change and innovation
  • Language variation and change
  • Multicultural Toronto English and new dialect formation

Office: N/A
Website
Email: derek.denis@utoronto.ca

Jeffrey Steele

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Foreign accent
  • French as a second language
  • Language ability assessment
  • Second language acquisition

Office: (905) 828-3988
Home: 416-924-3049
Languages: English,French,German
Website
Email: jeffrey.steele@utoronto.ca
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Juvénal Ndayiragije

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Comparative syntax, African languages (Bantu, Kwa groups)
  • Linguistic theory, Syntax, Morphology

Office: 416-287-7135
Languages: English,French
Website
Email: juvenal.ndayiragije@utoronto.ca
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Karen McCrindle

Associate Professor, Teaching Stream

Areas of Expertise

  • Pidgins and Creoles
  • Sociolinguistics (Media and language)
  • Teaching and learning

Office: (416) 287-7138
Languages: English,French
Website
Email: k.mccrindle@utoronto.ca
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Malama Tsimenis

Associate Professor, Teaching Stream

Areas of Expertise

  • 19th century French literature
  • Innovative pedagogy
  • Literary criticism

Office: 416-287-7498
Mobile: 416-302-0841
Website
Email: malama.tsimenis@utoronto.ca
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Pascal Michelucci

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • French literature and culture
  • French thinkers
  • Language teaching and technology
  • Modern and contemporary French writers
  • Semiotics of mass media and information and communication technologies(ICTs)

Office: (905) 828-3774
Languages: French
Website
Email: pascal.michelucci@utoronto.ca
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Rena Helms-Park

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Acquisition of reading by children and adults
  • Creolization
  • Cross-linguistic transfer
  • Electronic literacy
  • First and second
  • First and second language lexical (vocabulary) acquisition
  • Language and Power
  • Language lexical (vocabulary) acquisition
  • Language transfer
  • Lexical acquisition
  • Monolingual and bilingual child language acquisition
  • Psycholinguistics of reading
  • Second language acquisition
  • Undergraduate writing curriculum

Office: 416-287-7142
Website
Email: rena.helms.park@utoronto.ca
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Robert Binnick

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

Areas of Expertise

  • Manchu language
  • Mongolian language
  • Tense and verbal aspect

Office: N/A
Website
Email: robert.binnick@utoronto.ca
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