Bryan Kirschen

Assistant Professor

Linguistics Program; Romance Languages and Literatures; Translation Research and Instruction Program (TRIP)

Background

Bryan Kirschen holds a joint title in the Department of Romance Languages and the Linguistics Program; he is affiliated faculty of the Translation Research and Instruction Program and the Department of Judaic Studies.

Dr. Kirschen is a sociolinguist specializing in the Spanish language. He has published on Judeo-Spanish (Ladino) and the use of Spanish in the United States.

Education

PhD, University of California, Los Angeles
MAT, Stony Brook University
MA, Middlebury College
BA, MA, Binghamton University

Research Interests

Sociolinguistics
Contact Linguistics
Language Variation
Documentary Linguistics
Language Ideologies
Sephardic Studies
Aljamiado Texts

Teaching Interests

Introduction to Spanish Linguistics (Span 351)
Spanish Phonetics and Phonology (Span 480D)
Spanish Syntax (Span 451)
Spanish Sociolinguistics (Span 480F)
Contact Linguistics (TRIP 580V; Ling 481C)
Language Endangerment and Linguistic Revitalization (Trip 582A; Ling 480Y)
Introduction to Judeo-Spanish (Univ 101)