Kristin Van Engen
Associate Professor of Linguistics and Psychological and Brain Sciences in Arts & Sciences
Kristin Van Engen teaches in the Linguistics Program at Washington University and runs the PsychLing lab in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences. Her research, which has been supported by the NIH and the NSF and published in journals such as Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics, the Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, and Language and Cognitive Processes, focuses on the perceptual and cognitive mechanisms that support successful speech communication in the face of challenges such as noise, hearing loss, and unfamiliar accents.
Dr. Van Engen earned a BA in English from Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan and a PhD in Linguistics from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. She lives in St. Louis and attends The Church of St. Michael and St. George with her husband Abram and their children, Simon, Grace, and Hendrik.
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