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Katherine Kwak

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Contact Information

2046 Literatures, Cultures & Linguistics Building
707 S. Mathews Ave. | MC-168
Urbana, IL 61801

Office Hours

Fall 2023
Thursday 1-2pm
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PhD Student

Research Interests

psycholinguistics, heritage language acquisition, sentence processing

Education

PhD in Linguistics at UIUC (Expected 2027)

MA in Linguistics at Syracuse University (2022)

BA in Linguistics at the University of Texas at Arlington (2020)

Awards and Honors

Human Subject Funding from the Department of Linguistics ($380): October 2023

Phi Kappa Phi Love of Learning Scholarship ($1,000): September 2023

Selected to participate the 2023 Virtual Heritage Language Teacher Workshop (https://nhlrc.ucla.edu/nhlrc/event/15900): June 2023                                     

The Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies Graduate Student Travel Grant ($300): March 2023   

UIUC Departmental Conference Presentation Award ($100): February 2023                                

Phi Kappa Phi Love of Learning Scholarship ($500): September 2021

Summer Research Fellowship from Syracuse University: June 2021-August 2021

Courses Taught

KOR 203: Intermediate Korean I (Fall 2022, Fall 2023)

KOR 204: Intermediate Korean II (Spring 2023)