Shaohua Fang
Postdoctoral Researcher // English
Office and Contact
Room: SC 262
Email: fang413@purdue.edu
Research areas:
Psycholinguistics, second language acquisition, research methods, Large Language Model and language learning & processing, corpus linguistics
Shaohua Fang is the Ross-Lynn Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of English at Purdue University. He earned his Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Pittsburgh in 2023. Prior to this, he was a Visiting Assistant Professor of Linguistics at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in Spring 2024. He was also a CIFLTE Fellow at Teachers College, Columbia University. His research interests lie in psycholinguistics and second language acquisition, employing a range of methodologies, including experimental and computational approaches. He has published on various topics such as L2 acquisition and processing of temporality, predictive processing in L2, scope phenomena, and experimental research methods. Additionally, he has experience teaching Linguistics and Psycholinguistics courses. At Purdue, he is involved in multiple collaborative projects with researchers from diverse fields and is continuously expanding his methodological toolkit.