Faculty
Program Director: Margery Lucas (Psychology)
Assistant Professor: Angela Carpenter
Visiting Lecturer: Adam Cooper
Advisory Committee:
Margery Lucas (Psychology)
Andrea Levitt (Linguistics and French)
Allison McIntyre (Philosophy)
Ellen Hildreth (Computer Science)
Other faculty who teach in the program:
Margaret Keane (Psychology)
Sun-Hee Lee (East Asian Languages and Cultures)
Mary Kate McGowan (Philosophy)
Jennie Pyers (Psychology)
Shaio-Wei Tham (East Asian Languages and Cultures)
Catherine Wearing (Philosophy)
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Angela C. Carpenter
Wellesley Faculty Assistant Professor of Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences
B.A., Wellesley College; M.A., Ph.D., University of Massachusetts (Amherst)
Professor of linguistics; research interests include artificial language learning and acquisition of phonology.
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Ellen C. Hildreth
Professor of Computer Science
B.S., M.S., Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Research on human vision combining computer modeling and perceptual studies; interdisciplinary computer science education.
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Margaret Keane
Professor of Psychology
A.B., Harvard College; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Interested in exploring the cognitive and neural bases of human memory capacities; teach courses in memory, cognition, and neuropsychology.
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Sun-Hee Lee
Associate Professor of Korean
B.A., M.A., Ph.D., Yonsei University; Ph.D., Ohio State University
Focused on Korean language and culture, particularly corpus-based analysis of Korean and learner error corpus
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Andrea Gayle Levitt
Margaret Clapp ’30 Distinguished Alumna Professor of French and Linguistics
B.A., Wellesley College; M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Yale University
Professor of linguistics and French. Interested in language learning and speech perception and production.
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Margery Lucas
Professor of Psychology and Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences
B.S., Pennsylvania State University; M.S., Ph.D., University of Rochester
Studies psychology of choice and desire with focus on decisions about money and mating; evolutionary approach to behavior.
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Mary Kate McGowan
Luella LaMer Professor of Women's Studies; Professor of Philosophy
B.A., Wellesley College; M.A., Ph.D., Princeton University
Professor of metaphysics, philosophy of language and law; also teaches logic and various seminars.
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Alison G. McIntyre
Virginia Onderdonk ’29 Professor of Philosophy
B.A., M.A., Tufts University; Ph.D., Princeton University
Main interests: philosophy of mind, moral theory, the history of moral philosophy, especially 18th-century British moral psychology.
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Jennie E. Pyers
Associate Professor of Psychology
B.A., Smith College; Ph.D., University of California (Berkeley)
Research interests include the relationship between language and cognition, bilingualism, and the psycholinguistics of sign languages.
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Shiao-Wei Tham
Assistant Professor of Chinese
B.A., National University of Singapore; M.A., Ph.D., Stanford University
Research: linguistics, with focus on word meaning, Chinese.
Teaching: linguistics, Chinese language.
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Catherine Wearing
Associate Professor of Philosophy
B.A., McGill University; Ph.D., Harvard University
Researches at the intersection of philosophy of language and cognitive science, focusing especially on figurative language.
