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CURRICULUM VITAE
Professional Address: Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures The Pennsylvania State University 311 Burrowes Building University Park, PA 16802 (814) 865-5481
Email Address: Education 1994: Ph.D. in Germanic linguistics, University of Wisconsin-Madison 1989: M.A. in German literature, Vanderbilt University 1986: J.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 1983: B.A., Davidson College Job Experience 2001-present Associate Professor of German and Linguistics, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA. Teach courses in Germanic linguistics, general linguistics, German language, German culture. 1995-2001 Assistant Professor of German and Linguistics, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA. Teach courses in Germanic linguistics, general linguistics, German language, German culture, German literature. 1994-1995 Visiting Assistant Professor, Davidson College, Davidson, NC. Taught courses in linguistics and German language. 1986-1987 Judicial Clerk for Judge Samuel Lewis, Tennessee Court of Appeals, Nashville, TN. Assisted in the writing and researching of judicial opinions. Publications “Hesselman’s Law, Prokosch’s Law, and Moraic Conservation in the Germanic Quantity Shift.” Journal of Germanic Linguistics (Cambridge University Press) 13 (2001): 231-255. “Double Consonant Graphs in the Ormulum.” Interdisciplinary Journal for Germanic Linguistics and Semiotic Analysis 5 (2000): 245-271. “The Germanic Verschärfung and Prosodic Change.” Diachronica 16 (1999): 297–334. “On Notker’s Anlautgesetz.” In Interdigitations: Essays for Irmengard Rauch, ed. by Gerald F. Carr, Wayne Harbert and Lizhua Zhang. New York: Peter Lang (1999): 305–309. “Verner’s Law.” Beiträge zur Geschichte der deutschen Sprache und Literatur 120 (1998): 175–193. “A Gestural Approach to Lexical Diffusion and Neogrammarian Sound Change in Common Scandinavian.” Interdisciplinary Journal for Germanic Linguistics and Semiotic Analysis 3 (1998): 25–45. “On the Origin of Preaspiration in Scandinavian.” American Journal of Germanic Linguistics and Literatures 9 (1997): 167–190. “Articulatory Phonology as a Tool for Explanation in Historical Phonology: The Case of Stop Epenthesis in Germanic.” In Insights in Germanic Linguistics II, ed. by Gerald F. Carr and Irmengard Rauch. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter (1996): 175–188. “Nonlinear Phonology and the Development of Post-Consonantal Resonants in Word-Final Position in West Scandinavian and Germanic.” In Insights in Germanic Linguistics, ed. by Gerald F. Carr and Irmengard Rauch. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter (1995): 231–242 . Book Reviews and Conference Report Book review. Vergleichende germanische Philologie und Skandinavistik. Festschrift für Otmar Werner, ed. by Thomas Birkmann, Heinz Klingenberg, Damaris Nübling and Elke Ronneberger-Sibold. American Journal of Germanic Languages and Literatures 11 (1999): 107–111. Book review. The German-Speaking World: A Practical Introduction to Sociolinguistics Issues, by Patrick Stevenson. New York & London: Routledge, 1997. Monatshefte 91 (1999): 545-546. Book review. ADVERSARIA: Literature and Law, ed. by Trevor Anderson and Anne McGillivray, special edition of Mosaic (Volume 27/4, December 1994). Comparative Literature Studies 33 (1996): 317–322. Conference report. Second Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference. Madison, WI. 26-28 April 1996. Diachronica 13 (1996): 389–393. Papers Presented at Conferences “Nasal Loss before Voiceless Fricatives in Early Germanic and Vennemann's Preference Laws for Syllable Structure.” Michigan-Berkeley Germanic Linguistics Roundtable. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. April 1991. “Nonlinear Phonology and the Development of Word-Final Voiceless Sonorants in West Scandinavian.” Berkeley-Michigan Germanic Linguistics Roundtable. University of California, Berkeley. April 1992. “Articulatory Phonology as a Tool for Explanation in Historical Phonology: The Case of Stop Epenthesis in Germanic.” Berkeley Germanic Linguistics Roundtable. April 1994. “On the Origin of Preaspiration in Icelandic.” The First Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. April 1995. “On Verner's Law.” The Second Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference. University of Wisconsin-Madison. April 1996. “On the Old High German Consonant Shift.” The Third Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference. UCLA. April 26, 1997. “On the Germanic Verschärfung.” Berkeley Germanic Linguistics Roundtable. University of California, Berkeley. April 4, 1998. “The Germanic Verschärfung without the Laryngeals: An Argument for [consonantal].” The Fourth Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference. Ohio State University. April 18, 1998. “The Germanic Verschärfung and the Case for Consonantal.” Presented to the Marburg Phonology Discussion Group, May 1998. “German Vowel Lengthening: A Case Study in Prosodic Change.” MLA Convention. December 30, 1998. “Prokosch’s Law in West Germanic.” Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference 5, University of Texas-Austin, April 17, 1999. “Double Consonant Graphs in Orm’s Ormulum.” Berkeley Germanic Linguistics Roundtable. University of California, Berkeley. April 8, 2000. “Syllable Cut and Quantity in the Ormulum.” The Sixth Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference. University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. April 30, 2000. “Double graphs in the Middle English Ormulum and the Quantity Shift.” Presented to the Marburg Phonology Discussion Group, May 16, 2000. "A Swiss Linguistic Innovation: On the Fortis~Lenis Contrast in Swiss German" German Brown Bag Luncheon Lecture. University Park. March 1, 2001. “Phonological length and the fortis~lenis distinction in Upper German” Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference 7. Banff, Alberta. April 21, 2001 Courses Taught
Professional Organizations Society for Germanic Linguistics (1990-present) American Association of Teachers of German (1996-present) Linguistic Society of America (1998-present) Modern Languages Association (1992-1995, 1998-present) Member of the Tennessee Bar (1986-present,
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