Our Faculty

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)