Communication Fellow
Reid Vancelette is is finishing his Ph.D. in Linguistics at the Graduate Center, CUNY, with an interest in morphosyntax, second language acquisition, heritage speakers, and psycholinguistics. His dissertation uses various psychological methods such as eye-tracking to investigate the acquisition of different types of case in second language learners of Russian in New York City and how, if possible, these learners use these cases as a cue in comprehension. He has taught multiple introductory linguistics courses, including Introduction to Language and Analyzing Language, at the undergraduate and graduate level in the Linguistics and Communication Disorders department at Queens College. He received his B.A. in both Linguistics and Russian from the University of Iowa, where he was a Division 1 gymnast.