Department of Linguistics & TESOL | The University of Texas at Arlington

Alumni of UT Arlington's Department of Linguistics & TESOL are quite successful in their fields, and we'll tell you about successes in academic fields as we find out about them.

See the careers of our other graduates at the Alumni page.

2009

• Dr. Neal Szu-Yen Liang (Ph.D. Linguistics, 2009) has accepted a position as Lecturer in Chinese in the Department of Modern Languages at Northern Arizona University.
• Erin Gonzales (M.A. Linguistics, 2008) won an Outstanding Academic Advisor award (in the category of Professional Advisor, College of Education) for 2008-2009.
• Dr. Traci Weast (Ph.D. Linguistics, 2008) is the Principal Investigator on a recently approved 4-year, $800,000 grant given by the Department of Education. Dr. Weast is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education at Lamar University. She also has a chapter under final editing for a book on ASL phonology, and the editors of Sign Language & Linguistics have requested to publish an extended abstract (6 pages) of her dissertation.

2008

• Dr. Traci Weast has accepted a tenure track position as Assistant Professor in the department of Deaf Studies & Deaf Education at Lamar University.
• Dr. Wenhua Jin has accepted a position as Visiting Assistant Professor of Chinese in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at Clark University.