• PhD, Linguistics – University of Alberta, Canada
• MA, Applied Linguistics – University of New England, Australia
• BA, English Literature – University College of the Fraser Valley, Canada

• Child L2 acquisition
• Classroom L2 immersion learners
• L2 morphosyntactic acquisition
• Eye tracking and other psycholinguistic research methods
• Statistical data analysis

• Da-Yeh University, Taiwan – Project Lecturer, Dept. of English, 2021-2022
• University of Alberta, Canada – Contract Lecturer, Dept. of Linguistics & Dept. of Psychology, 2017-2022
• University of Alberta, Canada – Research Assistant, Language Acquisition Lab, 2015

Ren, N., Reynolds, B. L., & Rusk, B. V. (2025). Virtual companionship or flesh and blood: The effects of study-with-me (SWM) videos on learners’ intrinsic motivation, perceived pressure, and performance. Computers & Education, 228, 105243. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compedu.2025.105243

Rusk, B. V., & Paradis, J. (2024). The impact of out-of-school L2 input and interaction on adolescent classroom immersion and community-L2 learners’ L2 vocabulary: Opportunities for interaction are key. International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching. https://doi.org/10.1515/iral-2023–0167

Paradis, J., Sorenson Duncan, T., Thomlinson, S., & Rusk, B. (2022). Does the use of complex sentences differentiate between bilinguals with and without DLD? Evidence from conversation and narrative tasks. Frontiers in Education.

Rusk, B. V., Paradis, J., & Järvikivi, J. (2020). Comprehension of English plural-singular marking by Mandarin-L1, early L2-immersion learners. Applied Psycholinguistics, 1–31. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0142716420000089

Paradis, J., Sorenson Duncan, T., Thomlinson, S., & Rusk, B. (2022). Does the use of complex sentences differentiate between bilinguals with and without DLD? Evidence from conversation and narrative tasks. Frontiers in Education.

Soto-Corominas, A., Paradis, J., Rusk, B. V., Marinova-Todd, S., & Zhang, X. (2020). Oral language profiles of English second language learners in adolescence: Cognitive and input factors influence how they compare to their monolingual peers. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1–24. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0272263119000767

Paradis, J., Rusk, B. V., Sorenson Duncan, T., & Govindarajan, K. (2017). Children’s second language acquisition of English complex syntax: The role of age, input and cognitive factors. Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, (37), 148–167.

Reynolds, B. L., Rusk, B., Song, T., & Wang, C. (2023, December). Incidental Word Learning from Reading Repeated and Diverse Contexts. Vocab@Vic

Rusk, B. V., Paradis, J., & Soto-Corominas, A. (2019, July) Morphosyntactic abilities of early L2 learners in adolescence and young adulthood: Convergence with monolinguals and role of vocabulary size International Symposium on Bilingualism 2019 (ISB12), Edmonton AB.

Rusk, B. V., Paradis, J., & Järvikivi, J. (2019, June) Middle-school language immersion learners’ comprehension of plural-singular marking: Acquisition across a typologically distinct language pairing [Poster] 2019 CLA Meeting, Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Vancouver, BC.

Rusk, B., & Paradis, J. (2017, October). Differences between ESL, EFL and monolinguals: A developmental retrospective grammaticality judgment task study. Alberta Conference on Linguistics, Edmonton, AB.

Rusk, B. V. (2017, September). How are they now? Early second language learners’ grammaticality judgments in adulthood. Bilingual Acquisition Symposium in Edmonton, Edmonton, AB.

Rusk, B. V. (2017, February). Influence of a classifier L1 on processing of number marking in an L2. (Dis)Connections. Edmonton, AB.

Paradis, J., Rusk, B., Sorenson Duncan, T., & Govindarajan, K. (2016, July). English L2 children’s acquisition of complex sentences: The role of age, input and cognitive factors. Young Language Learners Symposium, Oxford.

Rusk, B. (2014, February) Benefiting from EFL immersion: Are youth and native input sufficient conditions for target language convergence? The International TESOL Conference, Kainan University, Taoyuan, Taiwan.

• Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Doctoral Fellowship
• President’s Doctoral Prize of Distinction
• President’s Doctoral Prize of Distinction, University of Alberta

• Digital Scholars of the University of Alberta – Co-President, 2015-2017
• Linguistic Graduate Students Association – Secretary, 2016-2018
• Graduate Student Association – Linguistics department representative, 2014-2015
• Peer reviews for Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, Frontiers in Psychology, Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition