Corrine McCarthy

  

I am a faculty member of the English Department and Linguistics Program. My PhD is from McGill University, and before I got my doctorate, I taught English as a Second Language in various places around the globe. Teaching English led me to the field of linguistics. My first interest was second language acquisition, which arose during my ESL teaching days. Upon learning that I spoke with a strong regional accent (I'm from the South Side of Chicago), I became more interested in dialects of American English and the process of language change. The current collaborative project I'm working on has gotten me interested in computer simulations, but I am a total novice and I'd like to learn more about the perspective of technologists.