William E. Nagy, Ph.D.

Professor of Education
(206)281-2253 Peterson 414

B.A., German, Michigan State University, 1970
Ph.D, Linguistics, University of California, San Diego, 1974
At SPU since 1996

Professional interests: Language and literacy - I’m especially interested in how students’ awareness of different aspects of language, for example sounds, word parts and syntax, contribute to learning to read and to comprehension.

Personal interests: Spending time with my family, serving on the prayer team at church, hiking, playing music