Faculty

Faculty & Clinical Professionals

Name Office Hours (CST) and Contact Info Specialty

Christopher Apfelbach
PhD, CCC-SLP, Assistant Professor

*Eligible to advise PhD students

47 Shevlin Hall
612-624-7001
apfel014@umn.edu 
Voice disorders and physiology, vocal effort and fatigue, exercise science, neuromuscular physiology, neurodegenerative disabilities, occupational voice users, singing research, and positron emission tomography (PET)
Erin Bodner
MA, CCC-SLP, Speech-Language Pathology Clinical Supervisor

119G Shevlin Hall
612-624-8590
bodne004@umn.edu


 

Stuttering, neurodiversity-affirming communication, child language

Natalie Covington PhD, Assistant Professor

*Eligible to advise PhD students

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

Kerry Ebert
PhD, Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Studies

*Eligible to advise PhD students

In person office hours on Tuesdays from 12-1pm or by appointment either in person or on Zoom
 
215B Shevlin Hall
612-624-2528
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, Professor, Chair
 
*Eligible to advise PhD students
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
Mike Kurth
AuD, PhD, CCC-A, Teaching Assistant Professor
49 Shevlin Hall
612-624-1010
kurth088@umn.edu 
Audiology, Aural Rehabilitation, Hearing Aids, Outcome Measures, Clinical Process Improvement
Kate Lamb
MS, CCC-SLP, Speech-Language Pathology Clinical Supervisor

 

28 Shevlin Hall
lambx096@umn.edu
Speech Sound Disorders, Developmental Language Disorders (DLD), and Orofacial Myofunctional Disorders (OMD)
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

*Eligible to advise PhD students

Office hours by appointment
 
225 Shevlin Hall
612-626-1185
Pediatric aerodigestive physiology, dysphagia (swallowing disorders), medically fragile infants
Benjamin Munson
PhD, Professor
 
*Eligible to advise PhD students
Office Hours by Appointment
 
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

*Eligible to advise PhD students

215G Shevlin Hall
612-625-4569
nelso477@umn.edu
Audiology, hearing aid signal processing, hearing loss, psychoacoustics, speech perception

Melissa Polonenko PhD, Assistant Professor

*Eligible to advise PhD students

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, Director of Undergraduate Studies

*Eligible to advise PhD students

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

Carrie Slag
MS, CCC-SLP, SLP Clinical Supervisor

 

 

24 Shevlin Hall
 cslag@umn.edu
Adult neurogenic communication disorders, Parkinson's disease, head and neck cancer, and dysphagia

Matthew Winn
AuD, PhD, Associate Professor

*Eligible to advise PhD students

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

*Eligible to advise PhD students

Tuesdays and Thursdays from 2:30-3:30pm

53 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
Jane Carlstrom
AuD, CCC-A, Clinical Specialist
Arlene Carney
PhD
Samuel Haroldson
MA
Kathryn Kohnert
PhD
Karlind Moller
PhD
Joe Reichle
PhD
Charles Speaks
PhD
Robert Schlauch
PhD
Peter Watson
PhD