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

Edna Andrews

Please note: Edna has left the "Slavic Centers" group at Duke University; some info here might not be up to date.

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
Office Phone:  (919) 660-3142
Email Address: send me a message

Teaching (Spring 2024):

  • PUBPOL 273T-4.01, VOICES IN PUBPOL: RUSSIAN Synopsis
    Languages 114A, M 01:25 PM-02:40 PM
    (also cross-listed as RUSSIAN 273T.01)
  • RUSSIAN 373S.01, RUS LANG/CULTURE-FILM Synopsis
    Languages 109, Tu 04:40 PM-07:10 PM
    (also cross-listed as CINE 284S.01, VMS 317S.01)
  • LINGUIST 472.01, LIN THEORY APPROACHES TO LLMS Synopsis
    Languages 207, MW 04:40 PM-05:55 PM
  • LINGUIST 473S.01, NEUROSCIENCE & MULTILINGUALISM Synopsis
    Languages 320, TuTh 11:45 AM-01:00 PM
    (also cross-listed as NEUROSCI 439S.01, RUSSIAN 439S.01, SCISOC 439S.01)
  • 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)
Teaching (Fall 2024):

  • HOUSECS 59.23, HOUSE COURSE (SP TOP) Synopsis
    Keohane 4B 402 SEM, M 05:15 PM-06:45 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, MWF 10:20 AM-11:10 AM
  • LINGUIST 472.01, LIN THEORY APPROACHES TO LLMS Synopsis
    Languages 320, MW 04:40 PM-05:55 PM
  • RUSSIAN 707.01, ADVANCED RUSSIAN Synopsis
    Languages 320, MWF 10:20 AM-11:10 AM
Education:

Ph.D.Indiana University at Bloomington1984
PhD HonoraryLeningrad (now St. Petersburg) State University, Saint Petersburg, Russia1991
MAIndiana University/Bloomington1980
BSUniversity of Alabama1979
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. Eierud, C; Michael, A; Banks, D; Andrews, E, Resting-state functional connectivity in lifelong musicians, Psychoradiology, vol. 3 (January, 2023) [doi]  [abs]
  2. 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]
  3. Andrews, E, The importance of lotmanian and peircean semiotics in linguistic analysis, Balkanistica, vol. 33 (January, 2020), pp. 221-230
  4. Andrews, E, Cognitive Neuroscience and Multilingualism, in The Handbook of the Neuroscience of Multilingualism (January, 2019), pp. 19-47, ISBN 9781119387701 [doi]  [abs]
  5. Andrews, E, The importance of Lotmanian semiotics to sign theory and the cognitive neurosciences, Sign Systems Studies, vol. 43 no. 2-3 (January, 2015), pp. 347-364, University of Tartu Press [doi]  [abs]

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)


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