Trevor Kann

I'm an applied linguist with over 20 years of experience teaching and researching language and social science. My academic work centers on linguistic empathy — the intersection of language, social psychology, and neuroscience — with broader interests in prosody, language evolution, humor, and pragmatics.

I currently serve as Director of Education at Evolved Energy Research, leading internal training, curriculum development, and external communications including newsletters, technical reports, and press coverage.

Before joining EER, I was a US Department of State English Language Fellow and Visiting Professor at the University of São Paulo, and a full-time Lecturer at UCLA. Language — how it works, how it fails, and what it reveals about the humans using it — remains a central preoccupation.