Edna Andrews, Nancy and Jeffrey Marcus Humanities Distinguished Professor of Slavic and Eurasian Studies and Professor of Linguistics and Cultural Anthropology and Director, CSEEES

Contact Info:

Office Location:	321B Languages Building
Office Phone:	(919) 660-3142, (919) 660-3140
Email Address:
Web Page:	http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/ducis/~eda

Teaching (Spring 2026):

• BRAINSOC 396T.02, BASS CONNX BRAIN & SOCIETY Synopsis

  Languages 320, M 04:30 PM-06:00 PM

• RUSSIAN 402.02, ADV RUS RDG/TRANS/SYNTAX Synopsis

  Languages 208, TuTh 01:25 PM-02:40 PM

• LINGUIST 595.01, LANGUAGE, MUSIC AND DEMENTIA Synopsis

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

• RUSSIAN 708.01, ADV RUS RDG/TRANS/SYNTAX Synopsis

  Languages 208, TuTh 01:25 PM-02:40 PM

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

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 Companion to Juri Lotman A Semiotic Theory of Culture (January, 2021), pp. 476-488, ISBN 9781350181618 [doi]

Languages: Russian, Croatian, Polish, Modern Greek Reading Knowledge: German, French, Czech, Slovak, Ukranian, Belorussian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Slovene, Old Church Slavonic Other Languages Studied: Yiddish, Chinese, Spanish, Georgian Computer Languages/Codes: Pascal, Basic, Fortran, HTML, Java (beginning level)