Dr. Aimee Knupsky is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Allegheny College, a private, liberal arts school in Northwestern Pennsylvania. She obtained her PhD. in Experimental Psychology (major emphasis, Cognitive; minor area, Linguistics) from the University of New Mexico in 2005. Her Masters and Dissertation worked examined the process of language production in bilinguals.
At Allegheny, Prof Knupsky teaches a variety of courses including Research Design & Statistics, Cognitive Psychology, and two upper level (junior seminar) courses in Language and Memory. She also takes part in the sequence of writing and speaking courses at Allegheny.
In addition to teaching, Prof Knupsky encourages students to work in the lab on projects from the fields of psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, and second language acquisition. She has regular interns during the school year, offers independent studies, and hosts summer research assistants. A particular source of pride are her senior comp students who complete projects in the lab on a variety of topics from cognitive psychology, ranging from narrative transportation in comic reading to the use of imagery for second language learning.
In what little free time she has, Aimee loves to find new on-line distractions like the BrainPaint Gallery, Wordle, and Pandora. She is relatively new to the world of blogging, and is interested in how to best apply that technology for classroom purposes. Her Australian Shepard, Beorn, misses her during the day and loves to take walks in the woods. Aimee is a fanatic Pittsburgh sports fan, has a respectable Tolkien calendar collection, and has been working on the same cross-stitch quilt for the last ten years. Her idea of bliss is an extended vacation in Jemez, New Mexico.
Aimee is currently enjoying her pre-tenure leave and is planning the purchase of her first home.