Advisory Board

Judith Carta, University of Kansas

  • Professor, Department of Special Education
  • Senior Scientist, Juniper Gardens Children’s Project
  • Director of Bridging the Word Gap Research Network

Becky Chen, University of Toronto 

  • Professor, Department of Applied Psychology and Human Development

Dorothy Espelage, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 

  • William C. Friday Distinguished Professor, Department of Education

Lisa Goffman, Boys Town National Research Hospital

  • Senior Scientist and Endowed Chair, Center for Childhood Deafness, Language, & Learning, Language in Motion Laboratory

Ioulia Kovelman, University of Michigan 

  • Professor, Department of Psychology

Bob McMurray, University of Iowa

  • Wendell Miller Professor, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences

Charles Perfetti, University of Pittsburgh 

  • Distinguished University Professor, Department of Psychology
  • Senior Scientist, Learning Research and Development Center

Diego Román, University of Wisconsin Madison

  • Assistant Professor, Department of Curriculum and Instruction

Contact Us

Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Language and Literacy
Gabel Hall 156
cisll@niu.edu