Faculty

Faculty & Clinical Professionals

Name	Office Hours (CST) and Contact Info	Specialty
Erin Bodner MA, CCC-SLP, Speech-Language Pathology Clinical Supervisor	119G Shevlin Hall 612-624-8590 bodne004@umn.edu	Stuttering and fluency, child language, social communication, augmentative/alternative communication
Natalie Covington PhD, Assistant Professor	Tuesdays and Thursdays from 3:45-4:45pm 51 Shevlin Hall 612-626-9688 nvcoving@umn.edu	Research with a focus on understanding and accounting for heterogeneity in cognitive recovery in individuals with a history of traumatic brain injury
Evelyn Davies-Venn PhD, Assistant Professor	Office hours: Mon 3 - 4 PM or by appointment. Please email Evelyn Davies-Venn for the meeting link for office hours. 119C Shevlin Hall 612-626-0317 venn@umn.edu	Hearing impairment and cochlear implants, hearing aid signal processing, spectral and temporal processing, cognitive influences on hearing, computational modeling of auditory processing
Kerry Ebert PhD, Associate Professor	In person office hours on Tuesdays from 12-1pm or by appointment either in person or on Zoom 215B Shevlin Hall 612-624-2528 kebert@umn.edu	Child language disorders, bilingualism, cognitive-linguistic interactions, service efficacy in children's speech-language disorders
Shaeleen Fagre AuD, CCC-A, Audiology Clinical Supervisor	Virtual or in-person office hours by appointment only. Please email Shaeleen Fagre to schedule. 119P Shevlin Hall 612-626-1935 sfagre@umn.edu	Hearing evaluations, hearing aid fitting and follow-up care, hearing conservation testing, custom earpieces
Marilyn Fairchild MA, CCC-SLP, Speech-Language Pathology Clinical Supervisor	Virtual and In-person office hours by appointment. Please email Marilyn Fairchild to schedule. 22 Shevlin Hall 612-624-9314 fairc003@umn.edu	Gender affirming voice and communication, developmental and acquired communication disorders in children and adults, social communication, literacy, assessment of culturally and linguistically diverse individuals
Lizbeth Finestack PhD, Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Studies	Office hours by appointment only. 54 Shevlin Hall 612-626-8377 finestac@umn.edu	Child language, language intervention, developmental disabilities: developmental language disorder (DLD), autism spectrum disorder, Down syndrome, and Fragile X syndrome
Rebecca Lulai MA, CCC-SLP, Director of Clinical Programs in Speech-Language Pathology, Speech-Language Pathology Clinical Supervisor	By appointment at this link Becky Lulai Scheduling Link 215G Shevlin Hall 612-624-9027 lude0008@umn.edu	Cognitive rehabilitation and brain injury, stroke rehabilitation, selective mutism
Katlyn McGrattan PhD, CCC-SLP, Assistant Professor	Office hours by appointment 225 Shevlin Hall 612-626-1185 kmcgratt@umn.edu	Pediatric aerodigestive physiology, dysphagia (swallowing disorders), medically fragile infants
Benjamin Munson PhD, Professor, Chair	Office Hours by Apointment 105A Shevlin Hall 612-624-0304 munso005@umn.edu	Speech-sound development in children, childhood speech-sound disorders, the influence of social stereotypes on speech perception, speech production, speech perception, experimental methods in speech and language research, children's word learning
Peggy Nelson PhD, CCC-A, Professor	215G Shevlin Hall 612-625-4569 nelso477@umn.edu	Audiology, hearing aid signal processing, hearing loss, psychoacoustics, speech perception
Melissa Polonenko PhD, Assistant Professor	Mondays from 2-3pm and Wednesdays from 10-11am over Zoom 34 Shevlin Hall 612-624-2617 mpolonen@umn.edu	Audiology, electrophysiology, auditory development, hearing loss, multi-sensory processing, cochlear implants and hearing aids, binaural and spatial hearing, behavioral measures, outcome measurements
Jayanthi Sasisekaran PhD, Associate Professor	Virtual office hours by appointment. Please email Jayanthi Sasisekaran for the meeting link for office hours. 220B Shevlin Hall 612-626-6001 sasis001@umn.edu	Stuttering, psycholinguistic processes, dual-task performance, language-speech motor interface
Robert Schlauch PhD, Professor	Mondays and Wednesdays from 11:30am-12:30pm or by appointment 47 Shevlin Hall 612-624-7001 schla001@umn.edu	Hearing measurement, cognitive influences on hearing, diagnostic audiometry, psychophysical procedures, selective attention, intensity and loudness coding in listeners with normal hearing and hearing loss, hearing loss caused by intense sounds
Peter Watson PhD, Associate Professor	Wed 1:00 - 2:00 PM on Zoom Thurs 1:00 - 2:00 PM in person Shevlin 53 or on Zoom 53 Shevlin Hall 612-624-1010 pjwatson@umn.edu	Speech motor control, neuronal activity in relation to speech, prosody and its control
Matthew Winn AuD, PhD, Associate Professor	Tues 10:30 - 11:30 AM in-person in Shevlin 36 or virtual office hours by appointment 36 Shevlin Hall 612-624-4733 mwinn@umn.edu	Audiology, cochlear implants, speech perception, listening effort, speech acoustics, pupillometry, binaural hearing
Kerry Witherell AuD, CCC-A, Director of Clinical Programs in Audiology, Audiology Clinical Supervisor	Virtual office hour appointments or in person by appointment 205A Shevlin Hall 612-301-1052 kwithere@umn.edu	Adult audiologic services, electrophysiology, implantable devices, cleft and craniofacial clinics, community hearing screenings
Yang Zhang PhD, Professor, Director of Undergraduate Studies	Tuesdays and Thursdays from 2:30-3:30pm 49 Shevlin Hall 612-624-7878 zhang470@umn.edu	Auditory neuroscience, speech and voice perception, learning and cognitive development, magnetoencephalography (MEG), event-related potentials (ERP), functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)

Emeritus Faculty

Name
Patricia Broen PhD
Arlene Carney PhD
Samuel Haroldson MA
Kathryn Kohnert PhD
Karlind Moller PhD
Joe Reichle PhD
Charles Speaks PhD
Jane Carlstrom AuD, CCC-A, Clinical Specialist