Marc Brennan Associate Professor, Audiology Program Coordinator/Director
Ph.D., Speech and Hearing Sciences, University of Washington, 2011
M.A., Communicative Disorders, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2001
B.S., Communicative Disorders, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1999
Marc Brennan joined the faculty in the Department of Special Education and Communication Disorders as an associate professor in August 2017. Prior to arriving at Nebraska, Marc served as an audiologist and the director of the Amplification and Perception Laboratory at Boys Town National Research Hospital in Omaha.
He was an adjunct professor in the Department of Special Education and Communication Disorders at the University of Nebraska - Omaha from 2013-15. Marc previously held research and audiologist positions at Northwestern University, University of Washington, University of Wisconsin-Madison and William S. Middleton VA Medical Center in Madison, Wisconsin.
Marc earned his bachelor's and master's degrees in communicative disorders from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. After completing his doctorate in speech and hearing sciences at the University of Washington, he completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Boys Town National Research Hospital.
Areas of Expertise:
Understanding the mechanisms that support speech recognition
Understanding how hearing aids impact the encoding of speech cues