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
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Pearson Hall 103
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Emily Gasser ’07
Associate Professor
Department Chair, Linguistics
Linguistics
Contact
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P.I., Pacific Languages & Linguistics Lab
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David Harrison
Professor
On Leave - Academic Year
Linguistics
Contact
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Jonathan Washington
Associate Professor
On Leave - Academic Year
Linguistics
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Donna Jo Napoli
Professor of Linguistics and Social Justice
Maurice Eldridge Faculty Fellow
Linguistics
Contact
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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
C.V. Starr Professor of Asian Studies; Associate Professor of Chinese and Linguistics, Haverford College
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
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Peter Baumann
Charles and Harriett Cox McDowell Professor of Philosophy and Religion
On Leave - Academic Year
Philosophy
Contact
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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
Section Head, Japanese
Modern Languages & Literatures-Japanese
Contact
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Sibelan Forrester
Susan W. Lippincott Professor of Modern and Classical Languages
Program Coordinator, Interpretation Theory
Section Head, Russian
Modern Languages & Literatures-Russian
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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
Contact
Research Interests: cognitive neuroscience, language learning, category representation, bilingualism, statistical learning, computational and neuroimaging methods.
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