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Language Faculty

Department of Languages and Linguistics
Gordon College
Wenham, MA 01984
USA

Languages Overview

Gregor Thuswaldner

Gregor Thuswaldner
Department Chair, Associate Professor of German and Linguistics
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B.A. University of Salzburg, Austria
M.A. University of Vienna, Austria
Ph.D. University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill

Dr. Thuswaldner joined the Gordon faculty in fall of 2003. He is currently chair of the Department of Languages and Linguistics and heads the German program and co-directs the major and minor in Linguistics. He is also a Fellow in Gordon's Center for Christian Studies. His main research projects focus on contemporary Austrian literature, German sociolinguistics, and the intersection of theology and literature. He has presented numerous papers in the US and in Europe and has published articles, book chapters, and entries in various encyclopedias. His latest book publication is Derrida und danach? Literaturtheoretische Diskurse der Gegenwart (Wiesbanden: Deutscher Universitätsverlag/VS Research, 2008).


Graeme Bird

Graeme D. Bird
Assistant Professor of Linguistics and Classics

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B.A., M.A. Auckland University
B.D. London University
B.M. Berklee College of Music
M.A., Ph.D. Harvard University

Dr. Bird is a native of New Zealand and has been teaching full-time at Gordon since 2001. His interests include Greek and Latin language and literature, Indo-European linguistics, and early English literature. He is a participant in the Harvard-affiliated Homer Multi-text Project, with a chapter in a book due out in the fall dealing with a celebrated medieval manuscript of Homer's Iliad. He enjoys exploring the connections between such diverse disciplines as Homeric poetry, historical linguistics, Greek mathematics, computer programming, and jazz improvization (he plays piano professionally and for relaxation). He co-directs the Linguistics major and minor and oversees the minor in Classics.


Damon DiMauro
Professor of French
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B.A. Tulane University
M.A., Ph.D. University of Wisconsin - Madison


Leasa Lutes

Leasa Y. Lutes
Professor of Spanish
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B.A. Wheaton College
M.A., D.M.L. Middlebury College


Pilar Perez-Serrano

Pilar Perez-Serrano
Assistant Professor of Spanish
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B.A. Gordon College
M.A. Brandeis University
Ph.D. Boston College, ABD


Emmanuelle Vanborre

Emmanuelle Vanborre
Assistant Professor of French
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B.A. University of Reading, University of Montpellier
M.A. University of Montpellier
M.A., Ph.D. Boston College

Dr. Vanborre joined Gordon College in 2007. She studied English and Second Language Acquisition at the University of Montpellier (France). She then studied French literature at Boston College. Her research in literature is focused on 20th century fiction, literary theory, and Francophone literature. She has presented papers and has published articles on French and Francophone literature, especially on Maurice Blanchot and Maryse Condé.


ADJUNCT AND PART TIME FACULTY

Pamela Thuswaldner

Pamela Thuswaldner
Part-Time Instructor of German
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B.A. Louisiana State University
Universität Mainz-Germersheim, Universität Salzburg
M.A. Bowling Green State University