Elena Babatsouli
Email: elena(dot)babatsouli(at)louisiana(dot)edu
Elena Babatsouli is Associate Professor and Blanco/BORSF Endowed Professor in Communicative Disorders at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette (US). She received a B.A. in English from Royal Holloway, University of London (UK), an M.A. in European Languages and Business from London Southbank University (UK), and a Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Crete (Greece).
Elena’s research interests are on cross-linguistic child monolingual and bilingual phonological acquisition and assessment, second language acquisition, heritage languages, speech sound disorders, culturally responsive practices in speech and language sciences, phonetics, phonology, morphology, psycholinguistics, clinical linguistics, and measures/quantitative methods. She has the following peer-reviewed publications: 6 edited books (Equinox, Multilingual Matters, John Benjamins), 3 journal special issues, 4 conference proceedings, and 60 articles.
Elena co-founded and organized/chaired the International Symposium on Monolingual and Bilingual Speech four times (2015, 2017, 2019, 2022) and has also organized/chaired the International Child Phonology Conference twice (2018, 2024), in Europe and the United States.
Dr. Babatsouli currently serves on the IASCL Executive Committee, the Multicultural Issues Board of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA), and as ERC Consolidator Grant Referee for the European Research Council ERCEA). She has also served as a Referee for 26 journals, she has reviewed several Insight Grant Proposals for the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), and books/book proposals for reputable publishers (e.g., Austrian Academy of Sciences, Cambridge University Press, Routledge, Wiley).
Elena is Associate Editor of the Journal of Child Language (Cambridge Core) and co-Founding Editor and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Monolingual and Bilingual Speech (University of Toronto Press). She also serves on the Editorial Board of the following journals: Frontiers in Psychology: Language Sciences, Frontiers in Communication: Language Sciences, Languages, Revista de Estudos da Lingua(gem), and Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics.