Swarthmore Faculty & Staff
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Michael Donovan
Visiting Assistant Professor
Linguistics
Contact
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Melanie Drolsbaugh
Language Lecturer
Linguistics
Contact
Pearson Hall 116
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Jeremy Fahringer ’06
Laboratory Technologist
Laboratory Instructor
Linguistics
Contact
Links
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Nicté Fuller Medina
Visiting Assistant Professor
Linguistics
Contact
Links
Pearson Hall 103
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Emily Gasser ’07
Associate Professor
Department Chair, Linguistics
Linguistics
Contact
Links
P.I., Pacific Languages & Linguistics Lab
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Donna Jo Napoli
Professor of Linguistics and Social Justice
Maurice Eldridge Faculty Fellow
Linguistics
Contact
Links
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Bi-Co Faculty & Staff
Jane Chandlee
Associate Professor and Chair of Linguistics (BiCo)
Haverford College Linguistics
Contact
Links
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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
Links
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Gesoel Ernesto Ribeiro Mendes
Visiting Assistant Professor
Haverford College Linguistics
Contact
Links
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Kaitlyn Parenti
Visiting Instructor of Linguistics
Haverford College Linguistics
Contact
Links
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Amanda Payne
Visiting Assistant Professor
Haverford College Linguistics
Contact
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Affiliated Faculty
Elaine Allard
Associate Professor
Director, Teaching & Learning Commons
Educational Studies
Contact
Links
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Peter Baumann
Charles and Harriett Cox McDowell Professor of Philosophy and Religion
Department Chair, Philosophy
Philosophy
Contact
Links
Interests:Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind, Practical Philosophy, History of Modern Philosophy and Contemporary Analytical Philosophy
Ph.D., University of Göttingen.
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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
Links
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
Interests: Human language understanding: pragmatics and conversational inferencing; sources of linguistic complexity; structural ambiguity resolution.
Office Hours: By email-appointment (dgrodne1)
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Varun Khanna
Visiting Assistant Professor
Classics
Asian Studies
Contact
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Benjamin Ridgway
Assistant Professor
Section Head, Chinese
Modern Languages & Literatures-Chinese
Asian Studies
Contact
Links
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Tsvetelina Yordanova
Lecturer
Modern Languages & Literatures-Russian
Contact
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Benjamin Zinszer
Visiting Assistant Professor
Psychology
Cognitive Science
Contact
Research Interests: cognitive neuroscience, language learning, category representation, bilingualism, statistical learning, computational and neuroimaging methods.
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