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Faculty & Staff and Affiliated Faculty

Swarthmore Faculty & Staff

Kirby Conrod

Assistant Professor

Linguistics

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 957-6011
  2. Pearson Hall

Pearson Hall 104

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Rikker Dockum

(he-him-his-himself)

Visiting Assistant Professor

Linguistics

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8203
  2. Pearson Hall 106
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Michael Donovan

Visiting Assistant Professor

Linguistics

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 690-3356
  2. Pearson Hall 116
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Melanie Drolsbaugh

Language Lecturer

Linguistics

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8421
  2. Pearson Hall

Pearson Hall 116

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Tarsia Duff

Administrative Assistant II

Linguistics

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8421
  2. Pearson Hall 118
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Jeremy Fahringer ’06

Laboratory Technologist

Laboratory Instructor

Linguistics

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 957-6131
  2. Pearson Hall 102
  3. Office Hours: Tuesday 10:30am-11:30am, Wednesday 11am-12pm
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Theodore Fernald

Professor

Linguistics

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8437
  2. Pearson Hall 117
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Nicté Fuller Medina

Visiting Assistant Professor

Linguistics

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 957-6014

Pearson Hall 103

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Emily Gasser ’07

(she-her-hers-herself)

Associate Professor

Department Chair, Linguistics

Linguistics

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 957-6162
  2. Pearson Hall 101

P.I., Pacific Languages & Linguistics Lab

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David Harrison

Professor

On Leave - Fall

Linguistics

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 690-5785
  2. Pearson Hall 102
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Jonathan Washington

Associate Professor

Linguistics

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 957-6134
  2. Pearson Hall 105
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Donna Jo Napoli

Professor of Linguistics and Social Justice

Maurice Eldridge Faculty Fellow

Linguistics

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8422
  2. Parrish Hall 213
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Bi-Co Faculty & Staff

Jane Chandlee

Associate Professor

Haverford College Linguistics

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 795-3371
  2. Haverford College Chase 106
Jane Chandlee

Noah Elkins

Visiting Instructor

Haverford College Linguistics

Contact

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Shizhe Huang

The C.V. Starr Professor of Asian Studies

Professor of Chinese and Linguistics

Director of Chinese Language Program

Haverford College Linguistics

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 896-1262
  2. Haverford College Chase 103B
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Brook Lillehaugen

Associate Professor and Chair of Linguistics (BiCo)

Haverford College Linguistics

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 795-6138
  2. Haverford College Chase 103A
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Gesoel Ernesto Ribeiro Mendes

Visiting Assistant Professor

Haverford College Linguistics

Contact

  1. 370 Lancaster Avenue, Haverford, PA
Gesoel Mendes

Kaitlyn Parenti

Visiting Instructor of Linguistics

Haverford College Linguistics

Contact

  1. E 370 Lancaster Ave, Haverford, PA
Kaitlyn Parenti

Amanda Payne

Visiting Assistant Professor

Haverford College Linguistics

Contact

  1. Chase 206
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Affiliated Faculty

Elaine Allard

Associate Professor

Director, Teaching & Learning Commons

Educational Studies

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8635
  2. Pearson Hall 203
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Peter Baumann

Charles and Harriett Cox McDowell Professor of Philosophy and Religion

Department Chair, Philosophy

Philosophy

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8433
  2. Beardsley Hall 212
  3. Office Hours:  F'24 Tuesday - 1:00-3:00pm and by appointment

Interests:Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind, Practical Philosophy, History of Modern Philosophy and Contemporary Analytical Philosophy
Ph.D., University of Göttingen.

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John Bundschuh

Assistant Professor

Modern Languages & Literatures-Japanese

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 690-5537
  2. Kohlberg Hall 311
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Sibelan Forrester

Susan W. Lippincott Professor of Modern and Classical Languages

Program Coordinator, Comparative Literature; Interpretation Theory

Section Head, Russian

Modern Languages & Literatures-Russian

Comparative Literature

Interpretation Theory

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8162
  2. Kohlberg Hall 340

Interests: Russian and East European women writers; gender and sexuality in language and literature; Modernism; literary and scholarly translation and translation theory

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Dan Grodner

Associate Professor

Department Chair, Psychology

Psychology

Cognitive Science

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8436
  2. 220

Interests: Human language understanding: pragmatics and conversational inferencing; sources of linguistic complexity; structural ambiguity resolution.

Office Hours: By email-appointment (dgrodne1)

Daniel Grodner

Varun Khanna

Visiting Assistant Professor

Classics

Asian Studies

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 690-3384
  2. Clothier Memorial Hall 17
  3. Trotter Hall
Varun Khanna

Jenn Phuong

Visiting Assistant Professor

Educational Studies

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 957-6244
  2. Pearson Hall 107
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Benjamin Ridgway

Assistant Professor

Chinese

Modern Languages & Literatures-Chinese

Asian Studies

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-7675
  2. Kohlberg Hall 305
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Rich Wicentowski

Professor

Computer Science

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 690-5643
  2. Science Center 251

Natural Language Processing 

Rich Wicentowski

Craig Williamson

Alfred H. and Peggi Bloom Professor

English Literature

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8154
  2. Eugene M. and Theresa Lang Performing Arts Center 203
Craig Williamson

Tsvetelina Yordanova

Lecturer

Modern Languages & Literatures-Russian

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8506
  2. Kohlberg Hall 303
Tsvetelina  Yordanova

Benjamin Zinszer

Visiting Assistant Professor

Psychology

Cognitive Science

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 957-6127
  2. Maxine Frank Singer '52 Hall 216

Research Interests: cognitive neuroscience, language learning, category representation, bilingualism, statistical learning, computational and neuroimaging methods.

Benjamin Zinszer