Language and Communication Lab

Principal investigator

Iva Ivanova

Associate Professor

imivanova@utep.edu

I am a Psycholinguist. I do research on the mental mechanisms of communication and language use.

I went to graduate school at the Universities of Barcelona and Edinburgh, and received a Ph. D. from the University of Barcelona in 2010. I was then a postdoc at UCSD from 2011 to 2016.

I am originally from Sofia, Bulgaria, and fondly return to visit family and friends. I speak Bulgarian, English, Spanish and Catalan (and, with considerable effort and a lot of interlocutor patience, German, Russian and Italian) .

I am captivated by detail and process. I find Home Depot fascinating. I do film photography (in my own darkroom), love (contemporary) art, architecture and design, read fiction, play tennis, play the piano and dance Argentine tango.

Curriculum Vitae

Graduate students

Rachel Williams

rlwilliams4@miners.utep.edu

Anahy Barragán

abarragand@miners.utep.edu

AJ Cruz

ajcruz6@miners.utep.edu

Diana Uribe

Primary Mentor: Ana Schwartz

duribe@miners.utep.edu

Christian Ruiz

Primary Mentor: Ashley Bangert

cruiz8@miners.utep.edu

Margot Vanhaverbeke

(Ghent University)

Primary Mentor: Renata Enghels

margot.vanhaverbeke@ugent.be

Laurence De Backer

(Ghent University)

Primary Mentor: Renata Enghels

laurence.debacker@ugent.be

Undergraduate research assistants

Alexia Hernandez

lab manager

Kyle Wolff

project manager and technical support

Bryan Jaquez

Diana Salcido-Padilla

Josue Lopez Tapia

Idalia Pinal

Berenice De Luna Flores

Nathan Gallinar

Alexandra Laredo

Lab alumni

Graduate students

Karly Schleicher (now Research Psychologist at ARI)

Jennifer Blush (now Assistant Professor at William Peace University)

Jonathan Covarrubias (now research assistant at Ohio State)

Lluvia Mendiola (Speech-Language Pathology MA)

Undergraduate students

Adrian Avendano Nevarez, Alan Barrera, Alejandra Fanith, Alejandra Salcido, Alina Anchondo, Alyssa Cardona, America Ponce, Ana Paula Anaya, Ana Paulina Caballero, Andrea Seañez, Angela Almeida, Audrey Camacho, Ava Chen, Aziz Atiya, Alexis Hovis, Brianna Gonzalez, Bridgette Leyva, Carolina Hernandez, Dafne Leyva, Daniel Machado, Diana Ruiz Grajeda, Elisa Espinosa, Elizabeth Soto, Eric Martell, Graciela Favela, Geraldine Garcia, Greg Cardona, Ivanna Delgado, Jonathan Ramirez, Jordan Giron, Jose Silva, Kaden Rodriguiez, Karen Tarango, Luisa Garcia, Mackenzie Cochran, Margo Berumen, Oscar Najera, Patricia Arizpe, Renato Diaz, Sebastian Delgado, Stephanie Ojeda, Susan Enriquez, Vanessa Wade, Victoria Jeffress, Valerie Edwards, Zacnite Garcia

Faculty members of the Consortium for Scientific Research on Bilingualism at UTEP

If you are interested in being a graduate student at LCL, note that you can be co-advised by Consortium members whose research interests fit with LCL research

Wendy Francis (Psychology) - bilingual memory and conceptual processing

Ana Schwartz (Psychology) - bilingual word recognition and discourse processing, cognitive sports psychology

Ashley Bangert (Psychology) - time perception, attention, aging

Christine Potter (Psychology) - learning, language development

Carla Contemori (Linguistics) - bilingualism, language acquisition, pronoun comprehension and production, syntactic processing

Natalia Mazzaro (Linguistics) - Spanish phonetics and phonology, sociolinguistics, bilingualism and language contact

Sabrina Mossman (Linguistics) - second language acquisition

Josefina Tinajero (Education) - second language acquisition, bilingual literacy, dual language programs, teacher preparation

Beverly Calvo (Education) - (bilingual) special education, educational diagnostics

Collaborators

Aurelie Pistono (University of Toulouse)

Ben Swets (Grand Valley State University)

Carla Contemori (UTEP)

Dan Kleinman (Haskins Laboratories)

Elli Tourtouri (Universität Osnabrück)

Franzisca Schulz (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics)

Holly Branigan (University of Edinburgh)

Kristen Tooley (Texas State University)

L. Bob Slevc (University of Maryland)

Lotte Eijk (University of York)

Mathieu Declerck (Aix-Marseille University)

Mikel Santesteban (University of the Basque Country)

Martin Pickering (University of Edinburgh)

Rachel Ostrand (IBM)

Renata Engels (Ghent University)

Ruth Corps (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics)

Shiri Lev-Ari (Royal Holloway University of London)

Shota Momma (UCSD)

Sid Horton (Northwestern University)

Tamar Gollan (UCSD)

Stephanie Borrie (Utah State University)

Vic Ferreira (UCSD)

In memoriam: Albert Costa (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, ICREA)

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