Affiliated Faculty


Alyssa Brewer
  • Associate Professor
    Ph.D., Stanford University, 2005
    M.D., Stanford University, 2007

  • visual, auditory, somatosensory/pain perception and attention, sensory deficits and neurological disorders, computational neuroimaging

  •  2304 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway | 949-824-1501

  • aabrewer@uci.edu
  • Lab
Penelope Collins
  • Associate Professor, Education
    Ph.D., Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, 1997

  • reading and writing development, bilingualism and biliteracy, digital literacy, academic language, engagement in literacy​

  • pennyc@uci.edu
Brandy Gatlin
  • Assistant Professor, Education
    Ph.D.,, Florida State University 

  • language, reading, writing, cultural and linguistic diversity, measurement and assessment, instruction

  • gatlinb@uci.edu
Young-Suk Kim
  • Professor, Education
    Ed.D., Harvard University, 2007

  • language and literacy acquisition and instruction, early literacy predictors, reading fluency, reading comprehension, writing

  • youngsk7@uci.edu
J. Zoe Klemfuss
  • Professor, Psychology

  • narrative development; children’s autobiographical memory; sociocontextual influences on children’s narrative, memory, and well-being; children’s eyewitness abilities

  •  4548 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway | (949)824-4412

  • jklemfus@uci.edu
  • Lab
Judith Kroll
  • Distinguished Professor, Education
    Ph.D., Brandeis University, 1977

  • bilingualism, second language learning, psycholinguistics, cognitive neuroscience, gender and science

  •  3000B Education

  • judith.kroll@uci.edu
  • Website
  • Lab
Elizabeth Pena
  • Professor, Education
    Ph.D., Temple University, 1993

  • bilingualism, language impairment, language development, assessment bias and measurement

  •  3000C Education | 949-824-5118

  • edpena@uci.edu
  • CV
Sameer Singh
  • Assistant Professor, Computer Science
    Ph.D. Computer Science, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 2014

  • large-scale machine learning, information extraction/nlp, probabilistic programming, interactive machine learning, distributedd and parallel inference, semi-supervised learning

  •  4204 Donald Bren Hall

  • sameer@uci.edu
  • Website
Julio Torres
  • Assistant Professor, Spanish and Portuguese
    B.S. Spanish Linguistics, Georgetown University, 2013

  • usage-based approaches to heritage and second language acquisition; bilingualism; cognition; task-based language learning; curriculum and instruction

  •  322H Humanities Hall | 949-824-2206

  • torresju@uci.edu
  • Website
  • Lab
Mark Warschauer
  • Professor, Education and Informatics

  • digital learning; language and literacy; STEM; diversity and equity

  • markw@uci.edu
  • Website
  • Lab
Julie Washington
  • Professor, Education
    Ph.D. Education (Speech and Language Pathology), University of Michigan, 1983

  • intersection of literacy, language variation, and poverty, use and development of African American English, achievement gap, language development, language disorders

  • julieaw@uci.edu
Kai Wehmeier
  • Dean's Professor and Director, C-ALPHA; Director, Undergraduate Studies
    Ph.D., Westfalische Wilhelms-Universitat Munster,  1996

  • logic, philosophy of logic and language, formal semantics, early analytic philosophy, and philosophy of mathematics

  •  783 Social Science Tower | 949-824-7792

  • wehmeier@uci.edu
  • Website
  • CV