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Rochelle Lieber

Professor of English

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

See profile below

 

 


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Holly R. Cashman

Associate Professor of Spanish

210G Murkland Hall
Phone: (603) 862-3121
Fax: (603) 862-1690
E-mail: holly.cashman@unh.edu

website

Education:
B.A., Hood College, 1994
M.A., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1997
Ph.D., ibid., 2001

Courses Taught:
SPAN 632: Advanced Conversation and Composition
SPAN 997: Seminar/Struc. Applied Linguistics

Fields of Research: 
codeswitching, impoliteness, and identity in bilingual interaction

 


John Chaston

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

Richard Clairmont

Murkland 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

Mary Clark

Professor of English

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

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

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

Mardi Kidwell

Associate 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

Professor of Spanish

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

website

 


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

Rochelle Lieber

Professor of English and Coordinator of the Linguistics Program

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

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

 


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Danielle Pillet-Shore

Assistant Professor of Communication

109 Horton Social Science Center
Phone: (603) 862-2362
Fax: (603) 862-1913
E-mail: danielle.pillet-shore@unh.edu

Website

 

Education:
B.A., University of California Los Angeles, 1998
M.A., ibid., 2001
Ph.D., ibid., 2008

Courses Taught:
CMN 457, Introduction to Interpersonal Communication
CMN 588, Talk and Social Institutions
CMN 666, Conversation Analysis
CMN 698, Openings of Everyday Interactions

Fields of Research:
language and social interaction, conversation analysis, communication in everyday life, face-to-face interaction, sociolinguistics, verbal and non-verbal communication, social psychology, qualitative methods, ethnomethodology, interaction in education and medical settings, family-school communication, social norms, social control and service providing institutions
 

 

 


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Maya Ravindranath

Assistant Professor of Linguistics

16 Hamilton Smith Hall
Phone: (603) 862-1268
Fax: (603) 862-3563
E-mail: Maya.Ravindranath@unh.edu

Education:
B.A., Cornell University, 1998
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 2009

Courses Taught:
ENGL/LING 405: Intro to Linguistics
ENGL/LING 719/819: Sociolinguistics Survey

 


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

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