Virginia Tompkins earned her PhD in Psychology (Developmental) from the University of Florida in 2009 and is currently a Professor in the Department of Psychology at The Ohio State University-Lima. Her research focuses on cognitive development in early childhood, including language, narrative, and theory of mind development. She is particularly interested in how social interactions and the home environment predict these developments, including parent-child conversation (e.g., mental state talk, reminiscing), parent discipline, and shared book reading and the home literacy environment. She is currently the Principal Investigator (with Derek Montgomery, Rebecca Dore, and Xin Feng as Co-PIs) of a National Science Foundation award investigating the home literacy environment and parents’ mental state talk as predictors of change in theory of mind and narrative comprehension over the year leading to kindergarten entry.