Alexandra Jesse

Adjunct faculty in Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences
Associate Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences (College of Natural Sciences)

Alexandra Jesse is an adjunct faculty member in the Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences. She specializes in cognition and cognitive neuroscience.

Dr. Jesse investigates how humans recognize speech from hearing and seeing a speaker. Dr. Jesse was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship in 1999. She has received a Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of California, Santa Cruz in 2005, working with Dr. Dominic Massaro. Dr. Jesse then worked as an independent researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, The Netherlands, funding her research program through several awards from the German Research Foundation, the Max Planck Society, and through a career award (VENI) from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research. Dr. Jesse joined the UMass faculty in 2010. She is an adjunct faculty member in the Department of Linguistics. Dr. Jesse serves as an Executive Board member of the Auditory-Visual Speech Association (AVISA).