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Staff

Rita Parmar
Manager, Academic and Administrative Services 
Advisor, Undergraduate Studies

Phone: 778-782-5739
Office: RCB 9200 | Office Hours: Monday to Friday (9:30am – 4:00pm)

Advising email: lingadv@sfu.ca (Include SFU ID number & advising transcript)
Manager email: lingmgr@sfu.ca

Contact Rita for assistance with:

  • Management of staff for LING and INLP
  • Undergraduate and graduate course planning
  • Undergraduate and graduate course scheduling
  • Faculty space assignments
  • SI space assignments
  • Department expense approvals
  • Department budgets 
  • Payroll timesheets (staff)
  • Undergraduate Academic Advising
  • Administrative support for the Undergraduate Studies Committee (UCC) 

Mehrnaz Nazemzadeh Harandi
Secretary to the Chair and Graduate Program Chair
Email: lingasst@sfu.ca

Phone: 778-782-4585
Office: RCB 9103 | Office Hours: Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday (9:00 am – 4:30 pm)

Contact Mehrnaz for assistance with:

  • Appointments with the Chair
  • TSSU Collective Agreement processes
  • Sessional and TA contract administration
  • TA/Marker and Time Use guidelines
  • Faculty appointments
  • Renewal, tenure and promotion
  • Salary review
  • Study leaves and other leaves
  • Faculty and employment website updates
  • Grade deadlines
  • Course evaluations 

Tina Cusmano
Department Secretary

Email: lingdept@sfu.ca
Phone: 778-782-4585
Office: RCB 9201| Office Hours: Tuesday to Friday (9:15 am – 2:45 pm)

Contact Tina for assistance with:

  • Internal event coordination such as department socials, volunteer appreciation, summer barbecue
  • General departmental assistance/Campus directions
  • General information about undergraduate program admissions and courses
  • Maintenance requests 
  • Textbook orders and desk copies
  • Course evaluations
  • Room Bookings (RCB 9100 and 7402)
  • Assistance with office equipment
  • Budget and accounting records
  • Document Solutions orders
  • Office supply inventory and ordering
  • Renewal of sponsored computing IDs
  • Facilities requisitions
  • Course outlines 
  • Confidential shredding
  • Registration
  • Course adds/drops/swaps 

Lee Gellatly
Graduate Program Secretary

LING email: ling_gsec@sfu.ca  
INLP email: inllgrad@sfu.ca
Office: RCB 9202 | Office Hours: Monday to Thursday (8:45 am – 3:45 pm)

Contact Lee for assistance with:

  • Linguistics graduate program application and admission inquiries (prospective students)
  • Indigenous Languages graduate program application and admission inquiries (prospective students)
  • Course information for grad studies (current students)
  • Graduate course enrollment requests
  • Awards timelines and application (GA3) for grad studies
  • Graduate student RA contract processing (department entrance funding)
  • Graduate thesis defence requirements and process

Brigid Portner
Research Grants and Projects Coordinator

Email: lingrsch@sfu.ca
Office: RCB 8122 | Office Hours: Monday to Thursday (9:45am – 4:00pm); Friday (9:15am – 12:30pm)  

Contact Brigid for assistance with:

  • Applications for research funding
  • Research assistant recruitment and hiring
  • Grant-funded RA contracts
  • Research conferences and workshops
  • Financial, reporting and administrative needs for research grants and projects
  • Administrative support for grant holders and project RAs
  • Procurement of non-technical, research-related equipment/supplies
  • Laboratory outreach activities 
  • Support for Indigenous Languages program research grants

Nicole North
Communications and Events Coordinator

Email: lingcomm@sfu.ca
Office: RCB 8124 | Office Hours: Monday to Friday (8:30am – 4:30pm)

Contact Nicole for assistance with: