![]() ![]() President, Semiotic Society of America (1987).President, Zeta of Washington Chapter (American University), Phi Beta Kappa (1998-2000).English-Speaking Union's Duke of Edinburgh English Language Book Award competition (2000), Alphabet to Email "Highly Commended"."Professor of the Year," AU University Honors Program (2006).American University Presidential Research Fellow (AY 2007-2008).English-Speaking Union's Duke of Edinburgh English Language Book Award (Winter 2008) for Always On.Visiting Scholar, Stanford Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (2012-2013).Bennett Faculty Scholar-Administrator Award, CAS, American University (2013) Fulbright Specialist, Catholic University of Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium (2017).Visiting Scholar, National Reading Centre, University of Stavanger, Stavanger, Norway (2018).Visiting Fellow, Digital Society Initiative, University of Zurich (2019).Theory and Methodology in Semiotics (editor, with Nikhil Bhattacharya), special issue of Semiotica 26 3/4, 1979.Mobile Phones in Cross-Cultural Context: Sweden, Estonia, the USA, and Japan (editor), themed section of New Media & Society 12 (1), 2010.Language Acquisition and Historical Change.Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1981. Computer Languages: A Guide for the Perplexed.Center for Applied Linguistics/Prentice Hall Regents, 1990. Pigeon-Birds and Rhyming Words: The Role of Parents in Language Learning.Growing Up with Language: How Children Learn to Talk.Alphabet to Email: How Written Language Evolved and Where It’s Heading.Always On: Language in an Online and Mobile World.Words Onscreen: The Fate of Reading in a Digital World.How We Read Now: Strategic Choices for Print, Screen, and Audio.Medium Matters for Reading: What We Know about Learning with Print and Digital Screens, 2021.Professor Baron has appeared extensively in the media, including interviews on Good Morning America, ABC News 20/20, CNN, The Diane Rehm Show, All Things Considered, the BBC, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, the Chronicle of Higher Education, the New Yorker, Fortune, and Time. She has taught or been a visiting scholar at the University of Gothenburg (Sweden), the University of Stavanger (Norway), the University of Zurich (Switzerland), and the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (Italy). For six years, she was executive director of the university’s Center for Teaching, Research, and Learning. Her new book, Who Wrote This? How AI and the Lure of Efficiency Threaten Human Writing, (Stanford University Press) will appear in Fall 2023.īaron taught at Brown University, Emory University, and Southwestern University before coming to American University, where she served in the College of Arts and Sciences as associate dean for undergraduate affairs, associate dean for curriculum and faculty development, chair of the Department of Language and Foreign Studies, and director of the TESOL Program. How We Read Now: Strategic Choices for Print, Screen, and Audio was published in March 2021.īaron's current research is on artificial intelligence and writing. Words Onscreen: The Fate of Reading in a Digital World appeared in 2015. Always On: Language in an Online and Mobile World won the English-Speaking Union’s Duke of Edinburgh English Language Book Award for 2008. Naomi Baron’s research interests include language and technology, reading, first language acquisition, the relationship between speech and writing, the history and structure of English, and higher education.Ī former Guggenheim Fellow, Fulbright Fellow, Fulbright Specialist, and Visiting Scholar at the Stanford Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, she has published nine books. (202) Degrees PhD Linguistics, Stanford UniversityīA English and American Literature, Brandeis University ![]() Naomi Baron Prof Emerita World Languages and Cultures Contact (202) 885-2455
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