The faculty in the Department of Linguistics have interests that cover all core areas of linguistics as well as language instruction.
Please contact our staff for more information about the Department of Linguistics or to be put in touch with one of our faculty members.
Faculty and Staff

Kelly Bambrick
Special Lecturer
michiya@oakland.edu

Linda Hubarth
Linguistics Office Assistant II
450K Pawley Hall
(248) 370-2175
hubarth@oakland.edu

Gleice Jones
Lecturer
gosilva@oakland.edu

Alexandria Murphy
Lecturer
acmurphy@oakland.edu

Kuniko Nielsen
Professor, Speech Language Pathology (SLP) Coordinator
Phonetics, Psycholinguistics, Speech Perception and Production
118 Fitzgerald House
(248) 364-8807
nielsen@oakland.edu

Jason Overfelt
Associate Professor, Undergraduate Advisor
Syntax, Syntax-Semantics Interface, Experimental Linguistics
117 Fitzgerald House
(248) 364-8848
overfelt@oakland.edu

Helena Riha
Special Lecturer
riha2@oakland.edu

Samuel Rosenthall
Associate Professor, Department Chair
Phonology
115 Fitzgerald House
(248) 364-8805
srosenth@oakland.edu

Michael B. Smith
Professor, Graduate Advisor
Cognitive Linguistics, Syntax and Semantics, German and Russian Linguistics
114 Fitzgerald House
(248) 364-8811
smith@oakland.edu

Angela Super
Visiting Assistant Professor and TESOL Coordinator
super@oakland.edu

Rhonda Yates
Special Lecturer
rmyatesr@oakland.edu

Andy Nguyen
Linguistics Graduate Assistant
hoangnguyen@oakland.edu
Affiliated Faculty

Hsiang-Hua (Melanie) Chang
Associate Professor of Chinese
Chinese Linguistics, First and Second Language Acquisition, Language Pedagogy and Assessment
362 O'Dowd Hall
(248) 370-4248
chang23@oakland.edu

Akiko Kashiwagi-Wood
Associate Professor of Japanese
Second Language Acquisition, Japanese/Foreign Language Pedagogy, Sentence Processing
360 O'Dowd Hall
(248) 370-4565
kashiwag@oakland.edu

Peter J. Binkert
Professor Emeritus
(Linguistics, Classics)

Daniel H. Fullmer
Professor Emeritus
(Linguistics, English)

William Schwab
Professor Emeritus
(Linguistics, English)
Linguistics Department
614 Pioneer Drive
Rochester, MI 48309-4482
(location map)
(248) 370-2175
Fax: (248) 370-3144
