Faculty & Staff
- Lisa Hermsen
- Lisa Diaz
- Sharon Beckford-Foster
- Doris Borrelli
- A.J. Caschetta
- Collette Caton
- Babak Elahi
- Catherine Faurot
- Robert Glick
- Gail Hosking
- Shelly Jansen
- Julie M. Johannes
- David Martins
- Stanley McKenzie
- Cecilia Ovesdotter Alm
- Amit Ray
- Linda M. Reinfeld
- John Roche
- Sandra Saari
- Richard Santana
- Michael Sarnowski
- Laura Shackelford
- Elena R. Sommers
- Thomas Stone
- Paulette Swartzfager
- Karen vanMeenen
- Selma Wilson Jacobson
- Dianna Winslow
Associate Chair/Associate Professor
1311 Liberal Arts
Phone: (585) 475-4618
Email: dabgsl@rit.edu
Ph.D., Linguistics, Cornell University (2000).
B.A., Linguistics and Italian Literature, Cornell University (1992).
Language and identity, the language and literature of neuro-atypicals, contemporary Italian literature, contemporary ethnic American literature.
Courses Taught:
Language and Brain
Language, Dialects, and Identity (0502-457)
Global Literature: Contemporary Italian Literature (0504-485)
Honors Literature: The Literature of Differently Wired Brains (0504-325)
Writing Seminar (0502-227)
SELECTED RECENT PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS
Linguistics: Language and the Neuro-atypical Mind. Book manuscript in progress.
Raddoppiamento sintattico in Italian: A Synchronic and Diachronic Cross-Dialectal Study. New York & London: Routledge, 2002.
Italian Literature: "Searching for Self through Others: Vittorini's Conversazione in Sicilia and Tabucchi's Notturno indiano." Italica 86:4 (2009).
Creative Writing: "Voices Unbound." Voices in Italian Americana: Literary and Cultural Studies 15:1 (Spring 2004).
