Edna Andrews
Nancy and Jeffrey Marcus Humanities Professor of Slavic and Eurasian Studies
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.
Education
- Ph.D., Indiana University at Bloomington 1984
Andrews, E. Markedness theory: The union of asymmetry and semiosis in language. Durham, NC: Duke Univeristy Press, 1990.
Andrews, E. A first year Supplementary Russian grammar. 1987.
Andrews, E. A second year grammar and one-stem dictionary. 1987.
Andrews, E, McLaws, G, and Rogers, A. A handbook of Russian verbal prefixes. Bloomington: Physsardt, 1983.
Pages
Andrews, E, and Maksimova, E. "Semiospheric Transitions: A Key to Modelling Translation." (2008).
Skotko, BG, Andrews, E, and Einstein, G. "Corrigendum to "Language and the medial temporal lobe: Evidence from H.M.'s spontaneous discourse" [Journal of Memory and Language 53 (2005) 397-415] (DOI:10.1016/j.jml.2005.05.003)." Journal of Memory and Language 54.4 (May 1, 2006): 635-null. Full Text
Andrews, E. "Zamyatin and the circle of colors." (2006).
Skotko, BG, Andrews, E, and Einstein, G. "Language and the medial temporal lobe: Evidence from H.M.'s spontaneous discourse." Journal of Memory and Language 53.3 (September 1, 2005): 397-415. Full Text
Andrews, E. "Neurolinguistic perspectives on Second Language Acquisition." Language (Journal of the Linguistic Society of America) (2005). (Academic Article)
Andrews, E. "Medial Temporal Lobes and Languages: The Case of HM." Journal of Memory and Language (2005). (Academic Article)
Andrews, E. "Slavic Languages in the Context of Languages of the Worl. Review of Comrie/Corbett The Slavonic Languages." SEEJ (2005). (Review)
Andrews, E, and Skotko, B. "H.M.’s Language Skills: Clues About Language and the Medial Temporal Lobe." Journal of Memory and Language (2005). (Academic Article)
Andrews, E. "Redefining textual boundaries: Torop and the Tartu school of semiotics." Semiotica 144 (December 1, 2003): 377-380. (Review) Full Text
Andrews, E. "Teorija postroenie xudozhestvennogo prostranstva: Lotman i Florenskij." (2003). (Academic Article)
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Selected Grants
National Resource Centers awarded by Department of Education (Principal Investigator). 2003 to 2007
Title VI National Resource Center/Foreign Language & Area Studies Fellowships awarded by Department of Education (Principal Investigator). 2003 to 2006
Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowships awarded by Department of Education (Principal Investigator). 2000 to 2003
Slavic & East European Language Resource Center awarded by Department of Education (Principal Investigator). 1999 to 2003
(97-0299) National Resource Center for Undergraduate Studies awarded by Department of Education (Principal Investigator). 1997 to 2000
National Resource Centers and Foreign Language and Area Studies Programs awarded by Department of Education (Principal Investigator). 1998 to 2000
National Resource Centers and Foreign Language and Area Studies Programs awarded by Department of Education (Principal Investigator). 1997 to 2000
(95-0281) Joint Undergraduate National Resource Center for Slavic Studies awarded by Department of Education (Principal Investigator). 1994 to 1997
(96-1074) Joint Undergraduate National Resource Center for Slavic Studies awarded by Department of Education (Principal Investigator). 1994 to 1997
(94-0275) The Duke-UNC Center for Slavic, Eurasian and East European Studies awarded by Department of Education (Principal Investigator). 1994 to 1995