Teaching Fellows

Casey Ferrara's research focuses on language and cognition through studies of speech, sign language, and gesture. She received her PhD from the University of Chicago in 2024, and her graduate research explored the ways in which communicating visually (through gesture or a signed language) impacts the way in which we represent different kinds of information. She also studies how this differs between adults fluent in a language and children still acquiring a language. Prior work has investigated the connection between language and cognition through studies of implicature and pragmatics, as well as language impairment in individuals with post-stroke aphasia. 

Her website detailing her work is caseyferrara.com.