Faculty Profiles, 2008
John Frederick Bailyn is Associate Professor of Linguistics at the State University of New
York at Stony Brook. His interests are linguistic theory, cognitive science,
Slavic linguistics, musical perception and evolutionary psychology. He holds a
Ph.D. in Linguistics from Cornell University.
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Joseph Conte is Professor and Chair of English at the University at Buffalo. He is
the author of Design and Debris: A Chaotics of Postmodern American Fiction
(University of Alabama Press, 2002) which examines the relationship of order
and disorder in the work of postmodern novelists. His interests also include
postmodern theory, chaos and complexity theory, the effect of digital media on
fiction and cognition, and language-centered poetics. He holds a Ph.D. in English
from Stanford University.
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Carlos de Cuba is a post-doctoral scholar Linguistics at Stony Brook University. His primary research interests
lie theroretical and comparative syntax. His work examines the structure of factive and non-factive complements,
CP structue and comparative Germanic syntax. He holds a Ph.D in Linguistics from Stony Brook University.
Mary (Polly) Gannon is Visiting Professor of Literature and Translation
at St. Petersburg State University. Her interests include translation theory,
comparative literature and poetry, women's literature, and film studies. She teaches courses in
Cultural Studies and Translation and is Director of Russian Studies
for Stony Brook University at St. Petersburg State University. She hosts the weekly Translators' Tea Party
at 'Zoom' in St. Petersburg. (Tea party blog: http://translatorsteaparty.blogspot.com/) She
holds a Ph.D. in Russian Literature from Cornell University.
Patrick Honeybone is Lecturer in Linguistics
at the University of Edinurgh. His research interests are in theoretical phonology,
historical phonology, and dialectology. He organizes both the Historical Phonology Reading Group
at Edinburgh, and the Manchester Phonology Meeting, one of the UK's leadiung annual phonology
conferences.
He holds a Ph.D. in
Linguistics from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne.
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Izabela Kalinowska-Blackwood is Associate Professor of
Slavic Studies at Stony Brook University. She specializes in Polish and Russian
nineteenth-century literatures, and East-Central European cinema. She teaches courses in
film studies, cultural studies, and literature. She is the author of Between East and West:
Polish and Russian Nineteenth-Century Travel to the Orient (University of Rochester Press, 2004).
She holds a Ph.D. in
Slavic Literature from Yale University.
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Nina Kazanina is Assistant Professor of
Linguistics at the University of Ottawa. Her research interests are in the
field of psycholinguistics, spanning from acquisition of syntax and semantics
to neurolinguistics, sentence processing and speech perception. More recently
she has been interested in exploring the degree to which the speaker's use of
grammatical knowledge guides his/her online processing and whether it is used
to restrict the set of possible candidate representations. She holds a Ph.D. in
Linguistics from the University of Maryland.
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Konstantin Klioutchkine is
Assistant Professor of Media Studies and Russian at Pomona College. His
interests are in Russian 19th- and 20th-century literature, the history of the
press, literary theory, media studies, and Czech 20th-century literature. He
holds a Ph.D. in Russian literature from the University of California at
Berkeley.
Leah Lowe is Associate Professor of Theater
at Connecticut College. Her research interests include theories of comedy,
gender studies, and popular American culture of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Her performance interests include devised theater,
comic techniques, and American drama. She teaches courses on performance and the
representation of gender and race in dramatic literature and other
cultural forms. She holds an MFA in Directing from the University of
Minnesota and a Ph.D. in dramaturgy from The Florida State University
School of Theater.
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James McFarland is Assistant Professor
of German and Philosophy at Connecticut College. His research interests extend from the
epistemology of Leibniz to the political theology of George Romero.
He has taught on topics ranging from the philosophy of tragedy to the concept of history
in Emerson, Nietzsche and Walter Benjamin.
His dissertation examined the Nietzschean context of Walter Benjaminís philosophy. He holds a
Ph.D. in German Literature from Princeton University.
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Roumyana Pancheva is Associate Professor
of Linguistics and Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Southern California.
Her research interetss are in comparative syntax, in both a synchronic and historical perspective, and on the interface
between syntax and semantics. Her research also involves also interested
in the neural foundations of language.
She holds a
Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Pennsylvania.
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Maria Polinsky is Professor
of Linguistics at Harvard University. Her research interests include
Language universals and their explanation, comparative syntactic theory,
the expression of information structure in natural language and incomplete acquisition (heritage language)
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Elizabeth Reichel Is a Social-Cultural Anthropologist, and Research Fellow at the University
of Wales. UK. She has fieldwork experience
in Bretagne, France, and in the Amazon
region with indigenous tribes studying cosmology, shamanism, myth and ritual,
gender, natural resource management, social organization, and sustainable development projects.
Her current research interests include biocultural diversity, material and intangible
cultural heritage, governance systems, and socio-ecological resilience related to
climate change.
She holds a PhD in Anthropology from Cornell University.
Philippe Schlenker is Associate Professor
of Linguistics at UCLA.
His research interests include Semantics, Pragmatics; Philosophy of Language;
Philosophical Logic; Syntax, Morphology.
He hold a Ph.D. in Linguistics from MIT.
and a Ph.D. in Philosophy from
l'ecole des Hautes Študes en Sciences Sociales, Paris
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Irina Sekerina is Assistant Professor of Linguistics and Psychology at the City
University of New York, College of Staten Island. Her interests include
Experimental Psychology and Theoretical Linguistics. She holds a Ph.D. in
Linguistics from the CUNY Graduate Center.
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E. K. Tan is Assistant Professor of
Comparative Studies at Stony Brook University. E.K.Tan received his Ph.D. . His dissertation title is
Lack, Loss and Displacement: Renarrativing "Chineseness" through the Aesthetics of Southeast
Asian Literature and Film. His areas of interest include Modern Chinese literature and film,
Sinophone literature, Asian diaspora studies, Psychoanalysis, Film Theory, Globalization Theory.
He holds a Ph.D. in Comparative and World Literature
from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Website
Edwin Williams is Professor of Linguistics at Princeton University. Prof. Williamsí
work is primarily in syntax. He also works on the lexicon and on semantics.
Recent publications include: Representation Theory (MIT Press,
2003) "Lexicalist Reflections on Minimalism", in M. Browning, ed. Minimalism (MIT Press, 1997) and Thematic Structure
in Syntax (MIT Press, 1994). He holds a
Ph.D. in Linguistics from MIT.
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