Catherine A. Stafford
Assistant Professor, Ph.D. Georgetown University
Catherine Stafford joined the Department as an assistant professor in 2005.
She teaches courses in linguistics, phonetics, second language acquisition
and pedagogy, and she is also a core faculty member in UW’s Second
Language Acquisition Program. An applied linguist by training, Professor
Stafford’s research interests encompass cognitive aspects of adult
language learning and in her research she has investigated the relationships
among bilingualism, memory and age, and their influence on non-primary language
learning in adulthood.
