Paola E. Dussias

The collection of chapters in this 1997 volume was the most comprehensive set of papers on bilingual processing available at the time. In particular, the editors encouraged the study of bilingualism both in its own right and as a tool to study language processing in general. It is this last point that deeply shaped what constitute my current research goals. An interesting side note is that Judith Kroll, liberal arts research professor of psychology and linguistics and one of the book editors, is a faculty member in the Department of Psychology at Penn State. Needless to say, I felt very fortunate when in 2001, I was hired by Penn State.