Bryan Kirschen
Associate Professor; Chair; Associate Professor of Spanish Linguistics
Translation Research and Instruction Program (TRIP); Linguistics Program; Romance Languages and Literatures
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)
