Nevin Leder is a Linguistics/ Applied Linguistics Professor at the UPRM English Department with a PhD from the Michigan State University and a specialty in the field of linguistics. As his research areas reflect, the areas of generative grammar and literacy are the subject of his offered courses. Amongst these, applicants can find Morphology and Syntax (INGL 4205), Psycholinguistics and the Reading Process (INGL 6028), and Second Language Acquisition (6020).