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LinguisticsNOW 2026 to feature Kristin Van Engen

LinguisticsNOW colloquium

You are invited by the Linguistics Graduate Student Colloquium Committee (LING-COCO) to join us downtown at SFU Harbour Centre for the 2026 LinguisticsNOW Colloquium (see venue map here). This event is presented jointly with UBC Linguistics. 

🗓️ Friday, December 4, 2026 at 3:30pm
📍 SFU Harbour Centre, Room 2270, 515 W Hastings St.
🔗 Zoom link: email lingcomm@sfu.ca

Speaker bio

Kristin Van Engen is a professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences and Linguistics at Washington University in St. Louis. She teaches in the Linguistics program and runs the PsychLing Lab in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences. Van Engen’s area of research is human speech perception and processing, with a focus on the sensory and cognitive mechanisms that support successful communication in challenging listening conditions. She is guided by particular concerns for how linguistic experience shapes speech perception and processing and how signal-intrinsic (e.g., accent) and signal-extrinsic factors (e.g., noise) interact to modulate the success of communication. 

About the LinguisticsNOW colloquium series

The LinguisticsNOW series is presented jointly by SFU Linguistics and UBC Linguistics. This annual event showcases exciting new research in linguistics while fostering collaboration between UBC and SFU. 

October 28, 2026