Faculty & Staff Profiles

Mary Clark

Professor of English and Coordinator of the Linguistics Program

207 Hamilton Smith Hall
Phone: (603) 862-3714
Fax: (603) 862-3563
E-mail: mmc@cisunix.unh.edu

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Thomas Carnicelli

Professor of English and Director of Undergraduate Composition

123 Hamilton Smith Hall
Phone: (603) 862-3975
Fax: (603) 862-3563
E-mail: carnicel@gwi.net

Education:
A.B., Princeton University, 1958
M.A., Harvard University, 1960
Ph.D., ibid., 1966

Courses Taught:
ENGL 513: Survey of British Literature
ENGL 753/853: Old English
ENGL 754/854: Beowulf
ENGL 791/891: English Grammar
ENGL 792/892: Teaching Secondary School English

Fields of Research: 
Medieval literature, history of the English language, English pedagogy

John Chaston

Associate Professor of Spanish

317 Murkland Hall
Phone: (603) 862-3129
Fax: (603) 862-1690
E-mail: jchaston@unh.edu

Education:
B.A., Brigham Young University, 1980
M.A., ibid., 1982
Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, 1987

Courses Taught:
SPAN 525: Spanish Civilization and Culture
SPAN 601: Phonetics
SPAN 632: Advanced Conversation and Composition
SPAN 733/833: History of the Spanish Language
SPAN 798/898F: Special Study/Mood, Pronouns, Modif.

Fields of Research: 
Spanish linguistics, sociolinguistics

Richard Clairmont

Senior Lecturer at the rank of Assistant Professor

302 Murkland Hall
Phone: (603) 862-3130
Fax: (603) 862-1690
E-mail: richardc@cisunix.unh.edu

Education:
B.A., University of New Hampshire, 1971
M.A., University of Virginia, 1973
Ph.D., Loyola University at Chicago, 1983

Mary Clark

Professor of English and Coordinator of the Linguistics Program

207 Hamilton Smith Hall
Phone: (603) 862-3714
Fax: (603) 862-3563
E-mail: mmc@cisunix.unh.edu

Education:
B.A., University of New Hampshire, 1978
Ph.D., University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 1978

Courses Taught:
ENGL 605: Intermediate Linguistic Analysis
ENGL 715/815: Theory and Methods
ENGL 716: Curriculum and Assessment
ENGL 791/891: English Grammar
ENGL 793/893: Phonetics and Phonology

Fields of Research: 
linguistics theory, TESL, phonology, African languages

Willem deVries

Professor of Philosophy

44 Hamilton Smith Hall
Phone: (603) 862-3077
Fax: (603) 862-34214
E-mail: willem.devries@unh.edu

Curriculum Vitae
Website

Education:
B.A., Haverford College, 1972
M.A., University of Pittsburgh, 1975
Ph.D., ibid., 1981

Courses Taught:
PHIL 520: Existentialism
PHIL 580: Modern Philosophy Decartes to Kant
PHIL 618: 20th Century Anglo-American Philosophy
PHIL 620: 20th Century Anglo-American Philosophy

Fields of Research: 
semiotics, language and the mind

Aleksandra Fleszar

Associate Professor of Russian and Coordinator of the Russian Program

303 Murkland Hall
Phone: (603) 862-3545
Fax: (603) 862-1690
E-mail: aif@cisunix.unh.edu

Education:
B.A., State University of New York at Buffalo, 1969
M.A., Ohio State University, 1972
Ph.D., ibid., 1984

Courses Taught:
RUSS 401-402: Elementary Russian
RUSS 595: Russian Practicum
RUSS 601: Russian Conversation and Phonetics
RUSS 632: Advanced Conversation and Composition
RUSS 691: Readings in Russian Literature
RUSS 721: Topics in Contemporary Russian Literature: From Chekhov to Post-Modernism
RUSS 725: Topics in Russian Culture and Society
RUSS 733: History and Development of the Russian Language
RUSS 790: Advanced Language and Style
RUSS 795-796: Independent Study
RUSS 797-798: Special Studies in Russian Language, Literature, and Culture

Fields of Research: 
modern Russian and Soviet literature, language pedagogy, 19th-20th century Polish literature, history of the Russian language, Slavic linguistics

Piero Garofalo

Associate Professor of Italian and Coordinator of the Italian Program

G10J Murkland Hall
Phone: (603) 862-3769
Fax: (603) 862-1690
E-mail: pg@unh.edu

Education:
B.A., University of Wisconsin at Madison, 1988
M.A., University of California at Berkeley, 1991
Ph.D., ibid., 1996

Courses Taught:
ITAL 525: Italian Cinema
LLC 540: Film History
ECS 400: Europe
ITAL 500: Topics in World Literature
ITAL 632: Advanced Conversation and Composition
ITAL 652: Intro Italian Culture and Civilization II
ITAL 733: History and Development of the Italian Language

Fields of Research: 
Romance historical linguistics, etymology

Mardi Kidwell

Assistant Professor of Communication

110 Horton Social Science Center
Phone: (603) 862-3036
Fax: (603) 862-1913
E-mail: mkidwell@unh.edu

Curriculum Vitae

Education:
B.A., University of California at Santa Cruz, 1986
M.A., University of California at Santa Barbara, 1998
Ph.D., ibid., 2003

Courses Taught:
CMN 457, Introduction to Interpersonal Communication
CMN 572, Language and Social Interaction
CMN 666, Conversation Analysis
CMN 698, Seminar/Studying the Police

Fields of Research:
language and social interaction, child social behavior, and police-citizen communication

Lina Lee

Associate Professor of Spanish

210A Murkland Hall
Phone: (603) 862-3123
Fax: (603) 862-1690
E-mail: llee@cisunix.unh.edu

Education:
B.A., Fu Jen Catholic University, 1979
M.A., North Texas State University, 1986
Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, 1992

Courses Taught:
SPAN 504: Intermediate Spanish
SPAN 645: Intro to Spanish Linguistics
LLC 791/891: Methods of Foreign Language Teaching
SPAN 797/897N: Special Study/Intro to Second Language Acquisition
SPAN 903: Applied Linguistics

Fields of Research: 
second-language acquisition and pedagogy

Frederick C. Lewis

Associate Professor of Communication Sciences and Disorders

147 Hewitt Hall
Phone: (603) 862-2538
E-mail: frederick.lewis@unh.edu

Education:
B.S., Southern Connecticut State University, 1963
M.S., ibid., 1967
Ph.D., Ohio University, 1970

Courses Taught:
COMM 520: Survey of Communication Disorders
COMM 739: Introduction to Aphasia in Adults
COMM 904: Aphasia in Adults
COMM 906: Voice Disorders

Fields of Research: 
language acquisition and development

Rochelle Lieber

Professor of English

107 Hamilton Smith Hall
Phone: (603) 862-3964
Fax: (603) 862-3563
E-mail: rochelle.lieber@unh.edu

Education:
A.B., Vassar College, 1976
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1980

Courses Taught:
ENGL 405: Introduction to Linguistics
ENGL 444B: Secret Lives of Words
ENGL 605: Intermediate Linguistic Analysis
ENGL 752: History of English Language
ENGL 794/894: Syntax and Semantic Theory

Fields of Research: 
linguist, expertise in linguistic theory, structure of the English language

Gregory McMahon

Associate Professor of History

408 Horton Social Science Center
Phone: (603) 862-3023
Fax: (603) 862-1502
E-mail: gmcmahon@cisunix.unh.edu

Education:
B.A., University of Kansas, 1975
M.A., Miami University, Ohio, 1979
Ph.D., Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, 1988

Courses Taught:
HIST 435: Western Civilization
HIST 575: Ancient Near East
HIST 675/875: Early History of Ancient Greece
HIST 676/876: Classic & Hellenistic Greek Worlds
HIST 677/877: Roman Republic

Fields of Research:
Ancient Near East history and languages, especially Hittite; Greek history; Roman history

Paul McNamara

Associate Professor of Philosophy

14 Hamilton Smith Hall
Phone: (603) 862-4215
Fax: (603) 862-4214
E-mail: paulm@cisunix.unh.edu

Curriculum Vitae

Education:
B.A., City College of New York, 1976
M.A., University of Missouri at Columbia, 1980
Ph.D., University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 1990

Courses Taught:
PHIL 447: Computer Power & Human Reason
PHIL 530: Moral Philosophy
PHIL 550: Symbolic Logic
PHIL 560: Philosophy through Literature
PHIL 701: Topics in Value Theory

Fields of Research: 
formal semantics, semantics and pragmatics, logics for natural language

Penelope E. Webster

Associate Professor of Communication Sciences and Disorders

157 Hewitt Hall
Phone: (603) 862-2125
E-mail: penny.webster@unh.edu

Education:
B.S., Northeastern University, 1976
M.A., State University of New York College at Geneseo, 1978
Ed.D., Boston University, 1984

Courses Taught:
COMM 522: Acquisition of Language
COMM 775/875: Advanced Language Acquisition
COMM 880: Diagnosis of Speech/Language Disorders
COMM 908: Language and Learning Disabilities/School Child
COMM 912: Language Disorders, Birth to Five

Fields of Research: 
language acquisition, language and learning disorders

James Weiner

Associate Professor of Computer Science

N221A Kingsbury Hall
Phone: (603) 862-2691
E-mail: jlw@cs.unh.edu

Education:
B.S., University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 1973
M.S., University of Wisconsin at Madison, 1975
Ph.D., University of California at Los Angeles, 1979

Courses Taught:
CS 403: Online Network Exploration
CS 760/860: Introduction to Human Computer Interaction
CS 780/880: Web Program Paradigms

Fields of Research: 
computational linguistics