IU School of Liberal Arts at IUPUI: Faculty & Staff Directory

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Linguistics

Julie A. Belz

Campus Address: CA 501P
Phone: (317) 274-2190
Email: jbelz@iupui.edu
Appointments: Associate Professor of English - Applied Linguistics
Adjunct Associate Professor of World Languages and Cultures
Adjunct Associate Professor of Intercultural Communication

Academic Interests:
Main Interests
Foreign language use and development (a.k.a. second language acquisition), foreign and second language teaching, technology-enhanced foreign and second language learning and teaching, intercultural foreign language education, discourse analysis, computer-mediated communication, Internet-mediated language and culture learning partnerships (a.k.a. telecollaboration), interlanguage pragmatics, foreign and second language teacher development, methodology and methods in applied linguistics research (especially learner corpus analysis, microgenetic analysis, social realism, qualitative analysis, linguistic criticism, and discourse-based analyses of language use and development)

Additional Interests
learner corpora and corpus linguistics, multilingual language use (especially multilingual writing), language play, language learner identity, cognitive linguistics, the teaching of foreign literatures, academic writing for learners of English, German applied linguistics, German-English bilingual writers, peace education

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Ulla M. Connor

Campus Address: EE GL/A
Phone: (317)274-2555
Fax: 317-641-1929
Email: uconnor@iupui.edu
Appointments: Barbara E. and Karl R. Zimmer Chair in Intercultural Communication
Professor of English
Adjunct Professor of Women's Studies
Adjunct Professor of Philanthropic Studies
Director of the Indiana Center for Intercultural Communication
Academic Interests: Linguistics, intercultural communication, and language and rhetoric of philanthropic fund raising

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Frederick J. DiCamilla

Campus Address: CA 501T
Phone: (317)274-4804
Fax: 317-278-1287
Email: fdicamil@iupui.edu
Appointments: Associate Professor of English; Director of Linguistics Undergraduate Program
Academic Interests: General linguistics, Lev S. Vygotsky and sociocultural theory, and the cognitive function of language in writing and in second language learning
Teaching: Z205 Introduction to the English Language Z301 History of the English Language G500 Introduction to the English Language

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Aye-Nu Elizabeth Duerksen

Campus Address: CA 341 F
Phone: (317)278-2424
Email: aduerkse@iupui.edu
Appointments: Associate Director, English for Academic Purposes Program
Senior Lecturer, Department of English
Coordinator,EAP Communication Skills Courses.
Academic Interests: TESOL (EFL, ESL, EAP, ESP), Second Language Acquisition, Sociolinguistics, Discourse Analysis, Corpus linguistics, ITA training and development, CALL, Distance Learning, E-Assessment and South East Asian Linguistics.

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Estela S. Ene

Campus Address: CA 341D
Phone: (317)274-3908
Email: eene@iupui.edu
Appointments: Assistant Professor of English
Director of the English for Academic Purposes Program
Academic Interests: Second language acquisition and teaching, ESL writing, corpus linguistics, advanced ESL learners, teacher education, program administration.
Teaching: Freshman composition for native and non-native speakers of English, linguistics, TESOL methods, Italian.

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Susan C. Shepherd

Campus Address: CA 501U
Phone: (317)274-0090
Email: sshephe@iupui.edu
Appointments: Associate Professor of English
Academic Interests: Sociolinguistics; language and oppression, especially with regard to Black English, American Sign Language, pidgins and creoles, and issues of gender; language and culture; child language acquisition; the history of English

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Thomas A. Upton

Campus Address: CA 501S
Phone: (317)274-4226
Email: tupton@iupui.edu
Appointments: Professor and Chair of English Adjunct Professor of Language Education
Academic Interests: Teaching English as a Second Language, applied linguistics, second language acquisition, corpus linguistics, second language reading, discourse analysis, English for academic and specific purposes

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