Joan Maling

Joan Maling is an American linguist and a former program director at the National Science Foundation.[1][2] Her primary research expertise is in the syntax of Icelandic. Her mother was Harriet Florence Maling.

Maling earned a BA from Goucher College and a PhD in linguistics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1973).[3] She taught at Brandeis University from 1972 until she joined the National Science Foundation in 2003. She is professor emerita at Brandeis University.

Maling was a founding co-editor (1983–1986) and then editor-in-chief (1987–2003) of the linguistics journal Natural Language and Linguistic Theory.[4] She is a past president of the Linguistic Society of America (2014).[5]

Maling retired from the National Science Foundation in 2021.