THE TEAM

In this lab, we believe:
in science
in collaboration
in lifting each other up
that diversity, inclusion, equity & social justice are requirements for excellence

Lab Director

Brielle C. Stark, PhD {she/her/hers}, is an Associate Professor in the Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences Department and Program in Neuroscience faculty at Indiana University. Dr. Stark completed her doctoral research in Clinical Neuroscience at the University of Cambridge (UK) as a Gates Cambridge Trust Scholar. She completed her postdoctoral fellowship at the Center for the Study of Aphasia Recovery. She is a proud alumna of Bryn Mawr College.

She was honored with the 2021 IU Faculty Excellence in Mentoring Award from the Center for Women & Technology and the 2021 IU Trustees Teaching Award. She is also a trained Peer Reviewer for IU’s Faculty Academy on Excellence in Teaching. In 2021, she was named one of four Distinguished Aphasia Scholars USA, a national award given by the Tavistock Trust UK. Brie was awarded the Outstanding Junior Faculty Award for 2022-2023 from Indiana University Bloomington and a Fulbright Scholar Award for Spring 2025, to take place at the University of Technology Sydney (AUS).

Publications: Google Scholar (see our Resources page for free full text copies. If you can’t find what you want, email me!)

Expertise: Aphasia; spoken discourse; cognitive neuroscience of language; spoken discourse/narrative; multimodal communication, especially gesture; inner speech

• More information about Dr. Stark here

• An updated CV can be found here

• ResearchGate is here

• I update about academic and personal things here

• LinkedIn is here

Email: bcstark [at] iu.edu