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Professor Erk's main area is computational linguistics. Her core research interest is in computational methods in lexical semantics, in particular methods for learning word meaning from large amounts of text…
Future of education, literature, language, composition
Rhetorical education (e.g., speech, writing, performance, ethics) of Barbara Jordan, Houston's Fifth Ward, African Americans in the South. History of rhetoric, especially 18th- and 19th-century, in the UK and America…
Chronic disease self-management among marginalized populations, particularly factors that impact self-management of diabetes among Mexican Americans and other Hispanic/Latino populations; self-management of multiple…
Contemporary Russian youth culture; masculinity in contemporary Russia and Mexico; the Chechen wars and conscription in Russia; the vampire myth in Slavic cultures; standards-based assessment of language programs;…
Latino/a literature, especially Chicano/a literature; late nineteenth-century US literature and culture; narrative theory; postcolonial theory; cultural studies.
Reading and its acquisition; also psycholinguistics and cognition
Dr. Griffin studies how people express thoughts or messages in spoken utterances. Work in the Cognition and Communication Lab is particularly concerned with how messages are mapped onto words and how speakers manage…