MARC AUTHIER, Ph.D. (University of Southern California)
Associate Professor of French and Linguistics
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My primary area of research is syntactic theory with special reference to French constructs. I also have secondary interests in formal semantics and mathematical logic. I have worked extensively on reference, quantifcation and causation and their stuctural correlates in the Romance and Germanic languages.

I teach a variety of courses in linguistics and French linguistics including FR 316 (French Linguistics), LING 402 (syntax), FR 418 (French syntax), LING 500 (syntax I), and FR 504/SPAN 511 (Romance syntax).

BARBARA E. BULLOCK, Ph.D. (University of Delaware)
Professor of French and Linguistics
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Fields: phonology/phonetics, bililingualism, Romance languages in contact, language variation and change, language acquisition and attrition.

I am a linguist with a specialization in the study of phonology--the sound structure of language. My current research program, which I conduct in collaboration with colleagues and students, is devoted to empirical investigations of the effect of bilingualism and language contact on linguistic structure. My interests lie generally in exploring the Romance language diaspora in the Americas, particularly among rural populations who have little to no formal education in French, Spanish, and Haitian Creole. A fundamental aspect of this research program involves fieldwork in two locations: in the linguistic enclave community of Frenchville, Pennsylvania, a village in its last stages of a language shift from a bilingual French-English community to an English monolingual one and, on the island of Hispaniola along the border between the Dominican Republic and Haiti. I also conduct laboratory research with bilinguals and language learners on various aspects of bilingual speech, including code-switching. I have just completed The Cambridge Handbook of Linguistic Code-switching, co-edited with my research collaborator, Almeida Jacqueline Toribio as well as a special issue on linguistic convergence for the journal, Bilingualism: Language and Cognition. In the FFS department, I have worked and published with students across all areas of specialization as I have secondary interests in the history of the French language and in the perception and linguistic representation of masculinity and femininity.

Courses: History of French, French Phonology, Romance Phonology, Bilingualism, Language Contact

MEREDITH DORAN, Ph.D. (Cornell University)
Assistant Professor of French and Applied Linguistics
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CELESTE KINGINGER, Ph.D. (University of Illinois)
Associate Professor of French and Applied Linguistics

HEATHER MCCOY, Ph.D. (Brown University)
French and Francophone Studies Basic Language Program Director

I am the Director of the Basic Language Program, meaning that I develop and implement the curriculum as well as supervise and mentor the Graduate Teaching Assistants while they teach French 1, 2 and 3.  I am also the study abroad adviser for undergraduate students interested in studying in a French-speaking countries.

My primary interests are the use of multimedia and technology in the French classroom and 1960s French cinema.  Classes that I teach on a regular basis include French 138 (French Culture though Film), French 202 (Grammar and Composition) and French 440/581 (Theory and Techniques of Teaching French).

LISA A. REED, Ph.D. (Université d'Ottawa)
Associate Professor of French and Linguistics
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Fields: Linguistics (Syntax and Semantics)

My research focuses on two areas of theoretical linguistics: syntax and semantics, with a particular interest in representations of the interface between these two modules in terms of the generative and model-theoretic frameworks. I have worked in depth on the syntax and semantics of modal verbs, causative constructions, affected datives, raising constructions, ergatives, and middles, among others.

I teach a wide variety of courses in French linguistics, such as FR 316/502 French Linguistics, FR 418/504 French Syntax, and FR 505 French Semantics, in addition to offering a range of similar courses in English for the Linguistic Program (LING).