Faculty Profiles

Julianne Alexander
Assistant Professor
Speech Language Pathology
311 Spes Unica Hall
jalexander@saintmarys.edu
Education
PhD, Indiana University
MA, University of Iowa
BS, in Speech, Indiana University
BA, in Spanish, Indiana University
Areas of Expertise
- Aphasia
- Psychosocial Health
Research Interests
- Aphasia, inner speech, and psychosocial health
- Discourse (connected speech) with acquired communication disorders
- Patient-reported measures and indications of therapeutic outcomes
Courses Recently Taught
- SLP 240 Phonetics
- SLP 486 Research Practicum
- SLP 502 Assessment
Professional Experience
- Assistant Professor, Saint Mary’s College, Fall 2025 - present
- Research Assistant, Indiana University, Fall 2020 - present, NEURAL Research Lab, Brielle C. Stark, PhD
- Instructor of Record, Indiana University, Summer 2021 - Spring 2023, Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences
- Speech-Language Pathologist, September 2019 - June 2020, American Senior Communities, Central Indiana
- Speech-Language Pathologist, October 2018 - October 2019, St. Joseph Health System, Mishawaka, IN
- Speech-Language Pathologist, June 2018 - September 2019, Select Rehabilitation, South Bend, IN
Creative and Scholarly Work
- Alexander, J. M. and Stark, B.C. (2024). Interdisciplinary approaches to understanding the inner speech, with emphasis on the role of incorporating clinical data. European Journal of Neuroscience.
- Alexander, J. M., Hedrick, T., & Stark, B. C. (2024). Inner speech in the daily lives of people with aphasia. Frontiers in Psychology. See here for Preprint and Data.
- Alexander, J.M., Langland-Hassan, P., and Stark, B.C. (2024). Measuring inner speech objectively and subjectively in aphasia. Aphasiology. 1–26. See here for Preprint and Data.
- Stark, B.C., Alexander, J.M., Hittson, A., Doub, A., Igleheart, M., Streander, T., and Jewell, E. (2023). Test-retest reliability of microlinguistic information derived from spoken discourse in persons with chronic aphasia. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research. See here for Preprint and Data.
Professional Memberships
- American Speech-Language and Hearing Association (ASHA), CCC-SLP
- Academy of Neurologic Communication Disorders and Sciences
- Academy of Aphasia
- Indiana Speech-Language-Hearing Association
- FOQUS Aphasia Working Group