Associate Professor | English and Linguistics

James Berry is an associate professor of English, specializing in linguistics, at the University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point. He earned his BA in English at the University of Florida, and his MA and PhD in English Linguistics at Arizona State University, where his academic interests included generative syntax, language change, sociolinguistics, pragmatics, and language contact. His subject-matter research has focused on the intersection of syntax and pragmatics, in English, Mandarin, and other languages, that enables the development of speech-act, evaluative, evidential, and epistemic adverbs. In addition, he has published on linguistics pedagogy, focusing on the use of an Invented Languages class to teach advanced introductory linguistics. Dr. Berry participated in the WTFS program as a Scholar in 2022-23, and his project was centered around adding an equity-minded counternarrative to an introductory linguistics class in the form of an Indigenous Language Project. He teaches linguistics and composition courses at UWSP.