Graduate Program in English Language and Linguistics

Ph.D. in English: English Language & Linguistics

The PhD in English with a focus on English Language and Linguistics is an advanced research degree. The program assumes that an entering student has a Master’s degree in Applied English Linguistics (or a related field) and has a wide knowledge of linguistics. In particular, entrance into the program presumes courses in the history of English and English dialects, syntax, and phonology.

The degree focus has two major phases: during the first phase, the candidate undertakes course work culminating in the doctoral preliminary examination; during the second phase, the candidate writes the dissertation. The focus is designed to give candidates the skills and the command of materials to do original scholarly work of a high order.

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ELL Faculty

Areas of faculty expertise in English Language and Linguistics

Second and third language acquisition: focus on generative approaches
Bilingualism and heritage languages: focus on psycholinguistic methods
Syntax: focus on syntactic variation and register analysis
Sociolinguistics: focus on dialectology, local and global Englishes
Phonology: focus on phonological theory and data science for linguists

Meet the ELL faculty who teach in our graduate program

Graduate Program

Jacee Cho

Position title: Vilas Associate Professor, English Language and Linguistics

Email: jacee.cho@wisc.edu

Address:
6107 Helen C. White Hall

Juliet Huynh

Position title: Assistant Professor

Email: jhuynh5@wisc.edu

Address:
6141 Helen C. White Hall

Thomas C. Purnell

Position title: Professor

Email: tcpurnell@wisc.edu

Address:
6109 Helen C. White Hall

Eric Raimy

Position title: Marjorie and Lorin Tiefenthaler Professor of English

Email: raimy@wisc.edu

Address:
7123 Helen C. White Hall

Anja Wanner

Position title: Enid H. Anderson Professor of English

Email: awanner@wisc.edu

Address:
Helen C. White Hall, Rm. 6103