Edna Andrews, Nancy and Jeffrey Marcus Humanities Distinguished Professor of Slavic and Eurasian Studies and Director of the Program and Professor

Edna Andrews is Professor of Linguistics and Cultural Anthropology, Nancy & Jeffrey Marcus Distinguished Professor of Slavic & Eurasian Studies, and Chair of the Linguistics Program at Duke University. She received her PhD from Indiana University and holds an honorary doctorate from St. Petersburg State University (Russia). Her books include Markedness theory: The union of asymmetry and semiosis in language (1990), About Sintetizm, Mathematics and Other Things: E.I. Zamiatin's novel WE (1994, in Russian), The Semantics of Suffixation (1996), Conversations with Lotman: Cultural semiotics in language, literature and cognition (2003), A Calculus of Meaning: Studies in Markedness, Distinctive Features and Deixis (1996, edited volume). Her newest book is Neuroscience and Multilingualism (Cambridge University Press, 2014). Recent articles in cognitive neuroscience and semiotics include "H.M's Language Skills: Clues about Language and the Medial Temporal Lobe" (2005), "Semiospheric transitions: A key to modelling translation" (2009), "Language and Brain: Recasting Meaning in the Definition of Human Language" (2011). Professor Andrews is the guest editor for a special issue devoted to brain and language of the journal Brain Sciences (2013). Her current research includes an extensive longitudinal fMRI study of second language acquisition and multilingualism. The first paper published from this study appeared in Brain Sciences 2013, 3(2), 849-876 (Multilingualism and fMRI: A Longitudinal Study of Second Language Acquisition. Co-authored with C. Casabo-Voyvodic, J. Voyvodic and J. Wright.) Professor Andrews was awarded the University Scholar/Teacher award on September 26, 2013 by the President of Duke University, Richard Brodhead.

Contact Info:

Office Location:	321B Languages Bldg, Durham, NC 27708
Email Address:

Teaching (Spring 2025):

• RUSSIAN 389P.01P, SLAVIC READINGS Synopsis

  Languages 320, MW 10:05 AM-11:20 AM

• RUSSIAN 402.01, ADV RUS RDG/TRANS/SYNTAX Synopsis

  Languages 320, MW 10:05 AM-11:20 AM

• LINGUIST 595.01, LANGUAGE, MUSIC AND DEMENTIA Synopsis

  Languages 320, TuTh 10:05 AM-11:20 AM

  (also cross-listed as MUSIC 595.01, NEUROSCI 595.01)

• RUSSIAN 710.01, RUSSIAN CULTURE THROUGH LIT Synopsis

  Languages 320, MW 10:05 AM-11:20 AM

• HOUSECS 59.02, HOUSE COURSE (SP TOP) Synopsis

  TBA, M 05:15 PM-06:45 PM

• MUSIC 191FS.01, MUSIC, MEANINGS, AND THE BRAIN Synopsis

  Languages 320, TuTh 11:45 AM-01:00 PM

  (also cross-listed as NEUROSCI 115FS.01)

• FOCUS 195FS.17, SPECIAL TOPICS IN FOCUS Synopsis

  TBA, Tu 05:00 PM-06:00 PM

• LINGUIST 216FS.01, NEUROSCIENCE / HUMAN LANGUAGE Synopsis

  Languages 320, TuTh 10:05 AM-11:20 AM

  (also cross-listed as NEUROSCI 116FS.01)

• RUSSIAN 401.01, ADVANCED RUSSIAN Synopsis

  Languages 320, MW 10:05 AM-11:20 AM

• RUSSIAN 505.01, SEMIOTICS OF CULTURE Synopsis

  Languages 320, TuTh 03:05 PM-04:20 PM

  (also cross-listed as LINGUIST 505.01)

Education:

Ph.D.	Indiana University at Bloomington	1984
PhD Honorary	Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) State University, Saint Petersburg, Russia	1991
MA	Indiana University/Bloomington	1980
BS	University of Alabama	1979

Specialties:

Linguistics
Russian

Research Interests: Cognitive and Neurolinguistics, Slavic and General Linguistics, Russia (Language & Culture), Language & Memory, Semiotics

Areas of Interest:

Neurolinguistics and general linguistics
Semiotics of culture
Semantics
Morphology
Multioingualism

Keywords:

Language • Neurolinguistics

Recent Publications   (More Publications)

1. Sexton, DP; Voyvodic, JT; Tong, E; Andrews, E; Grant, GA, Resting-state functional MRI in pediatric epilepsy: a narrative review., Childs Nerv Syst, vol. 41 no. 1 (February, 2025), pp. 116 [doi]  [abs]
2. Andrews, E; Bierman, H; Hannon, B; Ling, H, Semiosis and embodied cognition: The relevance of Peircean semiotics to cognitive neuroscience, Sign Systems Studies, vol. 52 no. 1-2 (January, 2024), pp. 49-69 [doi]  [abs]
3. Eierud, C; Michael, A; Banks, D; Andrews, E, Resting-state functional connectivity in lifelong musicians., Psychoradiology, vol. 3 (January, 2023), pp. kkad003 [doi]  [abs]
4. Andrews, E; Eierud, C; Banks, D; Harshbarger, T; Michael, A; Rammell, C, Effects of Lifelong Musicianship on White Matter Integrity and Cognitive Brain Reserve., Brain Sci, vol. 11 no. 1 (January, 2021) [doi]  [abs]
5. Andrews, E, Lotman and Cognitive Neuroscience, in The Companion to Juri Lotman: A Semiotic Theory of Culture (January, 2021), pp. 476-488, ISBN 9781350181618 [doi]