Roger J. Kreuz

Roger Kreuz is a professor of psychology at the University of Memphis, where he serves as an associate dean in the College of Arts and Sciences, and as the Director of Graduate Studies. After studying psychology and linguistics at the University of Toledo, he earned his master's and doctoral degrees in experimental psychology at Princeton University. Following that, he was a post-doctoral researcher in cognitive gerontology at Duke University. He has researched and published on diverse topics in the fields of language and communication, but primarily in the areas of text and discourse processing and figurative language. This research has been funded by the National Science Foundation and the Office of Naval Research. He has been a student of German and Old English, but his progress in the latter has been hampered by a lack of native speakers to practice with.