People Type: English Language & Linguistics

Balogun, Mariam

Biography Year Admitted: 2023 Bio: I hold a Bachelor of Arts in English Studies and a Master of Arts in English Language and Linguistics from the University of Lagos, Nigeria. Prior to beginning my Ph.D. studies, I worked as a Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant at Yale University, where I taught Yoruba. My research focuses …

de Armas Buchhorsts, Kevin J.

Biography Year Admitted: 2024 Bio Kevin J. de Armas Buchhorst is a PhD student in English Language and Linguistics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Secondary Education in English with a focus on Multimedia Technology from the University of Puerto Rico at Aguadilla and a Master of Arts in …

Floyd, Macy

Biography Year Admitted: 2021 Bio I am originally from the DFW area in Texas, and hold a BA in Language and Linguistics from Baylor University (Waco Texas), an MPhil in Linguistics from Trinity College Dublin (Dublin, Ireland), and an MBA from Eastern Washington University (Spokane, Washington). My previous research has focused on the pragmatic-prosodic interface, …

Gonzalez, Rabia Perez

Biography Year Admitted: 2022 Bio: I am a PhD student in ELL and Gender & Women’s Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. My current research explores the gender agreement perceptions of heritage speakers of Spanish, particularly focusing on article-noun agreement patterns. I also engage in psycholinguistic research using eye-tracking technology to investigate the parsing of …

Li, Yutong

Martínez Del Valle, Fabiola

Biography Year Admitted: 2023 Bio Fabiola was admitted to UW–Madison as a PhD student in English Language & Linguistics with a TESOL certificate after completing her MA in Linguistics at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras, and her BA in Linguistics with a minor in Technical Communication at the University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez. …

Moran, Joseph

Seyis, Saliha

Biography Year Admitted: 2025 Bio Saliha Seyis is a PhD student in English Language and Linguistics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She earned her Bachelor of Arts in English Language Education from Boğaziçi University in Turkey and her Master of Arts in General Linguistics from the University of Göttingen in Germany. Her research interests include …

Sumonsriworakun, Piyaboot

Zhou, Song

Biography Year Admitted: 2024 Bio: I am from Tianjin, China, and have a BA in Teaching Chinese to Speakers of Other Languages (TCSOL) from Nanjing University and an MA in TCSOL from Peking University. My research interest mainly lies in psycholinguistics. I’m curious about how language speakers from diverse backgrounds process language, and how their …