Visiting professors
Hafissatou KANE is a senior lecturer at Cheikh Anta Diop University of Dakar, Senegal. She holds a PHD in English and African linguistics and grammar. She specializes in English and Wolof grammar, codeswitching, contact linguistics and bilingualism. Her research has been supported by the Cambridge-Africa ALBORADA and the German Research Foundation (DFG) programs. Her current projects include the linguistic, psycholinguistic, and corpus analysis of Wolof-French and Wolof-English codeswitching.
Graduate Achievements
We are pleased to announce that our colleague Andrea Olivares-Beltrán has successfully defended her PhD dissertation on February 6th 2026. Congratulations to Dr. Olivares-Beltrán on this important achievement.
PhD Candidate Michela Gentile has successfully completed her PhD comprehensive exam, titled Inflection and Derivation in Italian and Spanish N-N Compounds: A Psycholinguistic Approach.
PhD Candidate Michela Gentile has been awarded the 2025 Excellence Award for Support Staff by the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Ottawa.
PhD Candidate Michela Gentile has successfully completed her PhD comprehensive exam, titled Inflection and Derivation in Italian and Spanish N-N Compounds: A Psycholinguistic Approach.
PhD Candidate Michela Gentile has been awarded the 2025 Excellence Award for Support Staff by the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Ottawa.
Research Community Updates
The QODAS 2025 Diálogos Quebéc-Ontario sobre la adquisición y el español took place in Montreal on May 2025.
