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.
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.
[5] Maling retired from the National Science Foundation in 2021.