• Cristina Abbona Sneider, Lecturer
in Italian Studies, holds a Ph.D from Brown University in Italian
Studies. Cristina taught at the University of Pennsylvania from 2003
to 2006; in her last year there she served as the Director of the
Italian Language Program and Undergraduate Chair. She has returned
to Brown University where she teaches and coordinates all levels
of Italian language courses and supervises teaching assistants
and fellows. Her research interests include curriculum design,
the use of technology in language instruction, and teaching
language through film. Cristina is currently co-writing a
textbook for advanced courses.
(11/06)
• Ruth Adler Ben Yehuda,
Senior Lecturer in Hebrew, Program in Judaic Studies.
She earned her M.A. in Hebrew Language from the Hebrew University
of Jerusalem. Before coming to Brown, she served as Hebrew
Instructor at Academic Rank in the Division of Hebrew Language
Instruction and Head Teacher at the Rothberg School for Overseas
Studies of the Hebrew University. She teaches elementary,
intermediate and advanced Hebrew. Since June 2002 she has
served on the Hebrew Board of the newly created National
Middle East Language Resource Center. Ruth serves as a
member of the subcommittee on pedagogy for the National
Association of Professors of Hebrew (NAPH). (05/06)
• Muhammad Al-Sharkawi, born in Cairo in 1971, received a BA in 1993 from Ayn Shams University Cairo, an MA from the American University in Cairo, and a PhD from the Radboud University in the Netherlands. He has published seven translations and one monograph about the history and development of the Arabic language. His main research interests are historical linguistics, the history of Arabic, and teaching Arabic as a foreign language.
• Iraj Anvar, born in Tehran into a family of lovers of Jalal al-Din Rumi, grew up with the sound of the poet's words echoing in his ears. He studied theater in Italy and after an extensive theatrical career in
Iran he settled in New York, where he gained a PhD in Near Eastern Studies and taught courses in the Persian language and Persian literature at New York University for many years. During this time he
continued to recite and sing the poems of Rumi, Hafez, and other Persian poets at venues such as Harvard, NYU, Columbia, St. John the Divine, and the Asia Society in Manhattan. He is a visiting professor at Brown University, where he continues to share his knowledge and feeling for the Persian language and its poetry.
• Elsa Amanatidou,
Senior Lecturer in Modern Greek, is currently
serving as Director of the Center for Language Studies. She studied English as an undergraduate at
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, before earning an M.A. in English at
the University of East Anglia and a second M.A. in Modern
Greek Studies at King’s College, London. She joined
the Brown Classics Department in 2001 after twenty years
as a language teacher in Greece and the UK. She has taught Beginner
and Intermediate courses in Modern Greek and has recently
started a new course for Advanced Learners. Her professional
interests include testing and evaluation, the application
of literature and music in the teaching of foreign languages, and
the use of drama activities in FL learning.
• Beth W. Bauer,
Senior Lecturer in the Department of Hispanic Studies,
Beth received the B.A. from Kalamazoo College and her Ph.D.
in Spanish from the University of Pennsylvania. She has published
several articles and monographs on 19th century Spanish
literature and is the co-author, with Barbara Freed, of
Contextos: Spanish for Communication. She teaches and supervises Spanish
language courses at the intermediate and advanced levels, and
has offered literature and culture courses at all levels,
including graduate seminars on eighteenth-century Spanish literature
and on foreign language teaching methodology. Her recent
curricular initiatives include a service-learning course
focusing on Latino populations in the US, an on-line
cultural exchange between Brown Spanish students and English
students at the Universidad de las Américas in Puebla,
Mexico, and a pilot Spanish Writing Center at Brown.
• Arkady Belozovsky,
Lecturer in American Sign Language / Deaf Studies. He earned his M.S. in
Linguistics and Interactive Multimedia Development from Rochester
Institute of Technology. His teaching experience includes American
Sign Language (ASL), Deaf Studies, and Russian Sign Language (RSL)
at the university/college levels. His research interests include cultural history of USSR with particular attention to Deaf intellectual history, Deaf Russian-American Studies, curriculum development, second sign language acquisition, sign language pedagogy, cross- and intercultural communication, and comparative linguistics in RSL and ASL. He has given numerous workshops
and lectures locally, nationally, and internationally. Before
coming to Brown, he taught at the University of New Hampshire at
Manchester as Senior Lecturer and Assistant Director, Sign Language
Interpretation (SLI) Program. For over thirteen years, he has
conducted freelance interpreting in a variety of settings and
sign languages (i.e., RSL, ASL and Gestuno). Arkady Belozovsky
is a member of the third Deaf generation in his family and is a
native of Ukraine. (09/07)
• Mirena Christoff,
Lecturer in Arabic, PhD candidate in Arabic language and
literature, UCLA, MA in Arabic Studies, Sofia University, Bulgaria, teaches courses
in Modern Standard Arabic at all four levels of instruction. Prior to Brown, she
has taught Arabic at UCLA, Middlebury College, and Sofia University. Her research
interests include SLA, translation studies, and history of Arab culture. She has
co-authored a reader, and published articles on translation from and into Arabic,
including a recent contribution on twentieth-century translation to the new
edition of The Encyclopaedia of Islam. (05/06)
• Lynne deBenedette,
Senior Lecturer in Russian, Department of Slavic Languages; Ph.D. candidate
in Russian Literature, University of Michigan. She serves
as coordinator of the beginning and intermediate Russian
language program and supervisor of graduate TAs. She teaches
elementary intensive and intermediate Russian, and her research
interests include problems of SLA, curriculum design, instructional
technology, and the professional development of language
teachers.
• Carlotta Duarte
is Coordinator
of the Language Resource Center. She oversees the distribution
of language materials and supervises the student assistants.
• Barbara Gourlay, Coordinator, English for International Teaching Assistants, has directed all aspects of the program since its inception in 1992. She designed and oversees the English-language proficiency evaluation of non-native teaching assistants and the program's five-course curriculum. Each semester she teaches two English language courses focused on developing English-language and pedagogical communication skills. She has also created an innovative consulting program that brings together Brown undergraduates and prospective international teaching assistants, and she is currently working on a collaborative project to develop discipline-specific language materials for chemistry students. Prior to coming to Brown, she was an Assistant Professor in the English Department at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She received an M.A. in Linguistics with a specialization in TESL from the University of Iowa and a Ph.D. in Education with a specialization in Language, Culture and Literacy from the University of Rhode Island/Rhode Island College. Her research interests include intercultural communication in academic settings and technology in second language teaching and learning.
• Masako Ueda Fidler,
Professor, Department of Slavic Languages; Ph.D. in Slavic Linguistics, UCLA. Dr.
Fidler teaches Czech at all levels (CZ10, 20, 41 (all sections), 61 (all sections) and SL191
and Czech culture and literature. She has received several grants to develop the Brown Online
Czech Literary Anthology (www.language.brown.edu/CZH/).
Her focus of recent scholarship has been on Russian and Czech morphosyntax, the
comparative analysis of Czech, Russian and Japanese. She is currently writing a monograph on a
discourse-cognitive approach to onomatopoeia and grammar in Czech. She will be teaching a new
course on Czech animation in the spring of 2007. (09/07)
• Hitoshi Horiuchi,
Visiting Assistant Professor of Japanese, Department of East Asian Studies; Ph.D. in
Linguistics, University of Texas at Austin. Professor Horiuchi teaches Japanese language
courses and courses related to social sciences and Japanese linguistics. His research
interests include formal linguistics (morphology, syntax, and lexical semantics),
descriptive grammar of Japanese for a pedagogical purpose, and international cultural
relations. (11/06)
• Lung-Hua Hu
is a Senior Lecturer of Chinese in the Department of East Asian Studies.
She received an MA in TESOL from Teachers College, Columbia University
and teaches beginning, intermediate and advanced Chinese courses.
Beginning from the fall of 2003, she will serve as the coordinator
of Brown University Study Abroad Program in China. Before
coming to Brown, she taught at Princeton University, Princeton
in Beijing, Columbia University in Beijing, Middlebury College,
and the Foreign Service Institute of the U.S. State Department.
Her research interest is focused on Chinese grammar and Chinese
pedagogy. She has received Wriston Grants (2000-01, 2002-03)
and a Curricular Development Grant (2000-01).
• Yuko Jackson,
Senior Lecturer of Japanese, Department of East Asian Studies; M.A. in Asian
Studies (Japanese Linguistics), Cornell University. She directs
the first-year Japanese program, and teaches intermediate
and advanced language courses. Her research interests include
the methodology of teaching beginning reading and writing,
and using the web as a teaching tool. She is currently developing
a first-year reading and writing textbook with emphasis on
communication strategies.
• Youenn Kervennic,
Lecturer in French, earned his Ph.D. at the University of
Illinois, Urbana Champaign. He teaches language, culture and civilization
of France and French speaking countries, and his research interests
include regional discourses, "otherness," and travel. He is author
of a novel L'appel de la mer, which received an award from the French
Académie de Marine, and he is currently finishing a book on travel.
(05/06)
• The Center
for Language Studies serves as the academic home of Hindi/Urdu language
instruction at Brown University. Since arriving at Brown in 1988, Ashok
Koul has been in charge of Hindi/Urdu, advancing to Senior
Lecturer in 1998. Dr. Koul earned the M.A. in Linguistics
from Syracuse University and the Ph.D. from Kurukshetra University.
He has published several articles on Kashmiri and other Indic
languages, and a textbook, Colloquial Urdu (Routledge).
•
The Associate Director of CLS, Merle Krueger,
joined the Center in September, 1989. He holds the Ph.D.
in German from the University of Wisconsin, and before coming
to Brown taught German at Furman University, Colby College,
and MIT. Together with Frank Ryan, he edited the volume Language
and Content: Discipline- and Content-Based Approaches to
Language Study. He has served as project director on a number
of grants, and is particularly interested in second language
reading and computer applications to language learning. May, 2005,
Merle became the Executive Director of the Consortium for Language Teaching
and Learning. (05/06)
• Andrew Ross,
Director of the Language Resource Center.
Dr. Ross holds a Ph.D. in French from the University of California,
Berkeley and comes to Brown from the University of Richmond
where he was Director of the Multimedia Language Laboratory
and a member of the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures.
He is active in the language technology profession as the
Editor-in-Chief of the IALLT Journal of Language Learning
Technologies and one of the managing editors of the International
Association for Language Learning Technology monograph series.
• Peter Scharf,
Senior Lecturer, Department of Classics. Peter Scharf teaches Sanskrit and Indian
literature in the Department of Classics. His research involves ancient Indian
philosophy of language and linguistics, concepts of the self, and Vedic ancillary
literature. His first book, The Denotation of Generic Terms in Ancient Indian
Philosophy: Grammar, Nyaya, and Mimamsa (TAPS 86.3. Philadelphia: American
Philosophical Society, 1996), analyzes and compares the views of three ancient
Indian linguistic schools of thought concerning the meaning of common nouns.
Current research projects include the preparation of a critical edition of
Sadgurusisya's Vedarthadipika and a work on Yaska's Nirukta.
In collaboration with colleagues at the Universities of Buffalo, Cologne,
and Frankfurt he is building an international digital sanskrit library.
He is also engaged in preparing Sanskrit teaching materials, including a
first-year university text and a series of independent-study readers in
Sanskrit in both printed and electronic form, the first of which is
Ramopakhyana: The Story of Rama in the Mahabharata (Richmond,
Surrey, England: Routledge/Curzon, 2002). The web-based versions of these
readers with a powerful index are open to the use of scholars and students
of Sanskrit in his virtual Sanskrit Library
(sanskritlibrary.org).
Prior to coming to Brown, Peter taught in the Religious Studies Department
at the University of Virginia and held post-doctoral fellowships in linguistics
at the University of Pennsylvania, where he and colleagues created a relational
data-base of Sanskrit grammatical texts under a project funded by the N.E.H.
(05/06)
• Nidia Schuhmacher,
Lecturer in Hispanic Studies, M.A. in Teaching English to Speakers
of Other Languages from Teachers College, Columbia University. Nidia
has taught English as a Foreign Language and English as a Second Language as
well as Italian and Spanish in Argentina, Italy, and the United States. Her
areas of interest and work include language pedagogy, the use of technology
in language instruction, second language acquisition, curriculum development
and the teaching of writing and culture. At Brown, Nidia is currently serving
as language coordinator for Hispanic Studies. She teaches and oversees
beginning and intermediate Spanish. (05/06)
•
Victoria Smith,
Senior Lecturer, Department of Hispanic Studies; Ph.D.
in Hispanic Literature, University of California –
Berkeley. She served as the Language Coordinator for her
department from 1984-2005. She teaches elementary and
intermediate Spanish, and in addition teaches an
interdepartmental graduate seminar on the Theory and
Methods of Foreign Language Teaching. Among her current
areas of interest is the use of contemplative practices
in FL education, particularly for working with language
anxiety and fostering intercultural understanding (09/07).
•
Patricia Sobral, Senior Lecturer in Portuguese and
Brazilian Studies. She holds an MA in Comparative Literature from the
University of Illinois and a Ph.D from Brown University in Portuguese
and Brazilian Studies. She taught at Harvard from 1997-2002 and then
returned to Brown University as Undergraduate Concentration Advisor
and Coordinator for the Language Program. She teaches and supervises
all levels of Portuguese courses and has offered courses in contemporary
Brazilian film, a freshman seminar on the theme of belonging and
displacement (in English) and a performance-based course that integrates
the arts with second language acquisition in a variety of ways. Her most
recent initiative is the inception of a NGO in Brazil that will enhance
the Brown-in-Brazil experience and service the Brazilian community in the
city of Rio de Janeiro. (09/07)
•
Silvia Sobral, Lecturer in Spanish, Hispanic Studies
Department. M.A. in Teaching English as a Foreign Language and
doctoral candidate in Hispanic Linguistics and Second Language
Acquisition at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
She currently oversees elementary and advanced conversation Spanish
at Brown. Her professional and research interests include language
acquisition and instruction for heritage speakers, development of
authentic communication in the classroom and instructional technology
for language learning. She recently contributed the Lab Manual for
the Spanish textbook Mosaicos and is currently working as a co-author
on the new edition of Dicho y Hecho. (10/05)
• Jane Sokolosky,
Senior Lecturer, Department of German Studies; Ph.D. in German, Washington
University in St. Louis. Prof. Sokolosky teaches elementary
and intermediate German, and serves her department as T.A. supervisor
and language program director. Her interests include language pedagogy,
instructional technology and language learning, study abroad and
internship opportunities for students. (05/06)
•
Hiroshi Tajima, Lecturer of Japanese,
Department of East Asian Studies, holds an M.A. in Foreign
Language Education from Rutgers University. He directs first-year
and third-year Japanese. His research interests include integrating
humor and current research on Japanese society and culture
into language instruction. He is currently at work on a second-year
Japanese textbook employing an innovative communicative approach.
• Hsin-I Tseng, Lecturer in the Department of East Asian Studies; B.A in Chinese Literature and M.A. in Teaching Chinese as a Second Language from the National Taiwan Normal University. She was a special education teacher for deaf students in Taiwan. Before coming to Brown, she taught at Western Washington University and Princeton University. Her research interests include language contact, language pedagogy, and second language writing instruction.
• Hye-Sook Wang,
Associate Professor of Korean, Department of East Asian Studies; Ph.D. in English
Language and Linguistics, University of Wisconsin. Dr. Wang
teaches all levels of Korean language and culture courses
and coordinates Korean Studies and study abroad in Korea.
Her primary research interests are in sociolinguistics, cross-
and intercultural communication and pragmatics, applied linguistics
(acquisition of Korean as a second or foreign language),
and Korean-American Studies. She is currently president of
the American Association of Teachers of Korean (2003-2006),
after serving for three years as treasurer and for three
years on its Executive Board. She has served on the Editorial
Boards of Comparative Korean Studies and AATK Journal.
• Lingzhen Wang,
Associate Professor of Chinese Literature and Language, Department of East Asian
Studies; Ph. D. in East Asian literature from Cornell University. She teaches
intermediate and advanced Chinese, twentieth century Chinese history and
literature in Chinese, and modern Chinese culture, literature, and film in
translation. Her research interests include feminist and literary theories,
gender studies, visual culture, and modern and contemporary Chinese literature
and film. (05/06)
• Yang Wang,
Lecturer of Chinese, Department of East Asian Studies, holds an M.A.
degree in Chinese Language Pedagogy from The Ohio State University. She directs
advanced beginning and advanced Chinese courses. Before coming to Brown, she taught at
Beijing Language and Culture University (formerly Beijing Language Institute), The Ohio
State University and Williams College. Her primary research interests are in pragmatics,
cross-cultural communication and strategies to help advanced learners of Chinese to
improve their oral proficiency at the discourse level.
•
Shoggy Thierry Waryn, Senior Lecturer in French Studies, earned his Ph.D. at the University of Iowa. He specializes in French language and film, media history, technology, and cross-cultural studies.. He is one of the developers of the Cultura methodology for on-line pedagogy and teaching. Before coming to Brown he taught at MIT and worked for WebCT.
• Annie Wiart, Senior Lecturer
in French, Department of French Studies; License-ès-Lettres, Lettres Anglaises,
Sorbonne - Université de Paris 7; Resident Director of the Brown-in-France program
(2002/3). She teaches and coordinates French language courses at the intermediate and advanced
levels, and her interests and expertise are in materials development and the applications of
film and computers to teaching languages.
• Kikuko Yamashita,
Associate Professor of Japanese, Department of East Asian Studies; Ph.D.
in Linguistics, University of Pennsylvania. Professor Yamashita serves as
a freshmen advisor (CAP advisor) and teaches Japanese language
courses, Japanese linguistics, and contemporary Japanese
fiction reading. Her current research focuses on the interface
between grammar and discourse structure and on the grammar
of Japanese narrative forms.
• Meiqing Zhang,
Senior Lecturer in Chinese, Department of East Asian Studies; A.M. in English,
Brown University. Ms. Zhang teaches beginning, intermediate
and advanced Chinese language courses; her research in progress
deals with readings in Chinese and the functions and usage
of functional words in Chinese. |
