The English Department at Florida International University teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in Literature, Creative Writing, Writing & Rhetoric, Linguistics, Film Studies, and Exile Studies. Originally established in 1965, the English Department operates on two campuses in Miami-Dade County and at the FIU Pines Center in Broward County. In addition, faculty members teach in several programs overseas at partnering universities and colleges. Distinguished faculty in the English Department regularly earn both recognitions and accomplishments locally, statewide, nationally, and internationally

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Videos from 2022

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My Life in the Academy, Barbara Gordon Memorial Lecture, Almeida Jacqueline Toribio and Department of English, Florida International University

Submissions from 2015

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Cognitive Reserve in Parkinson’s Disease: The Effects of Welsh-English Bilingualism on Executive Function, John V. Hindle, Pamela A. Martin-Forbes, Alexandra J.M. Bastable, Kirstie L. Pye, Anthony Martyr, Christopher J. Whitaker, Fergus I.M. Craik, Ellen Bialystok, Virginia C. Mueller Gathercole, and Linda Clare

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Interface strategies in monolingual and end-state L2 Spanish grammars are not that different, Maria C. Parafita-Couto, Virginia C. Mueller Gathercole, and Hans Stadthagen-Gonzalez

Submissions from 2014

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Does language dominance affect cognitive performance in bilinguals? Lifespan evidence from preschoolers through older adults on card sorting, Simon, and metalinguistic tasks, Virginia C. Mueller Gathercole, Enlli M. Thomas, Ivan Kennedy, Cynog Prys, Nia Young, Nestor Vinas Guasch, Emily J. Roberts, Emma K. Hughes, and Leah Jones

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Does language dominance affect cognitive performance in bilinguals? Lifespan evidence from preschoolers through older adults on card sorting, Simon, and metalinguistic tasks, Virginia C. Mueller Gathercole, Enlli M. Thomas, Ivan Kennedy, Cynog Prys, Nia Young, Nestor Vinas Guasch, Emily J. Roberts, Emma J. Roberts, and Leah Jones

Submissions from 2011

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Being Blue in Hawai‘i: Politics, Affect, and the Last Queen of Hawai‘i, Bruce Harvey

Videos from 1994

 

Pidgins and Creoles, Derek Bickerton

 

Creole Languages and Urban Education: Meeting the Challenges of the 21st Century (Tape 2), Derek Bickerton and Linguistics Program, Florida International University

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Creole Languages and Urban Education: Meeting the Challenges of the 21st Century (Tape 3), Jean-Robert Joseph Cadely and Linguistics Program, Florida International University

 

Second Language Acquisition Models: Where does Input Fit?, Susan Gass and Department of English, Florida International University

 

Task-based Learning: What is it? What can we do with it?, 11th Annual Barbara Gordon Memorial Lecture Series, Susan Gass and Department of English, Florida International University

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Creole Languages and Urban Education: Meeting the Challenges of the 21st Century (Tape 1), Ian Hancock; Derek Bickerton; and Linguistics Program, Florida International University

 

Creole Languages and Urban Education: Meeting the Challenges of the 21st Century (Tape 4), Geneva Smitherman; Frank Martinus; Velma Pollard; and Linguistics Program, Florida International University

 

Creole Languages and Urban Education: Meeting the Challenges of the 21st Century (Tape 6), Geneva Smitherman; Frank Martinus; Velma Pollard; and Linguistics Program, Florida International University

Videos from 1993

 

Susan Steele, 10th Annual Barbara Gordon Memorial Lecture Series, Susan Steele and Department of English, Florida International University

Videos from 1991

 

Uniquely Human, 8th Annual Barbara Gordon Memorial Lecture Series, Philip Lieberman and Department of English, Florida International University

 

Processing Reality of Linguistic Representations, Florida International University Linguistics Colloquium, Lew Shapiro and Department of English, Florida International University

Videos from 1990

 

The Metaphorizing Animal: the Metaphorical Structure of Thought, 7th Annual Barbara Gordon Memorial Lecture, Mark Johnson and Department of English, Florida International University

 

Developing Students' Listening Skills, Judith Liskin-Gasparro and Department of English, Florida International University

Videos from 1988

 

Language of the Heart or the Head, Shirley Brice Heath and Department of English, Florida International University

 

Language Maintenance and Language Shift: Preservation vs. Extinction, 5th Annual Barbara Gordon Memorial Lecture Series, Peter Trudgill and Department of English, Florida International University

Videos from 1987

 

Anglophone Creoles and the Pariah Syndrome, 4th Annual Barbara Gordon Memorial Lecture Series, Ian A. Hancock and Department of English, Florida International University

Videos from 1984

 

The Rise and Fall of the Ethnic Revival, Inaugural Barbara Gordon Memorial Lecture Series, Joshua A. Fishman and Department of English, Florida International University