He earned his B.S. in Speech Language Therapy from the Technological Educational Institute of Patras, Greece, his M.S. in Human Communication Sciences Research from the University of Sheffield, UK and his Ph.D. in Applied Language and Speech Sciences from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Dr. Papakyritsis joined the WIU CSD faculty in the fall of 2013. He teaches undergraduate courses in phonetics and neurological speech and language disorders and graduate courses in phonological disorders and motor speech disorders.