David Appelbaum
Professor, Department of Philosophy
Office: JFT 1005
Phone: (845) 257-2983
E-mail: appelbad@newpaltz.edu
David Appelbaum received a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Harvard University. At SUNY New Paltz he teaches Ethics, Comparative (East/West) Philosophy, Modern Philosophy, and Theory of Knowledge. He is the author of two books on Jacque Derrida. His most recent book is Jacques Derrida's Ghost: A Conjuration (SUNY Press, 2008). He also writes and publishes poetry.
He teaches Philosophy of Language for the Linguistics Program.
Victor de Munck
Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Anthropology
Office: WSB 228
Phone: (845) 257-2985
E-mail: demunckv@newpaltz.edu
Victor de Munck received a Ph.D. from the University of California Riverside. After teaching at the University of New Hampshire, he joined the faculty at SUNY New Paltz in 1997. His courses include Research Methods, Cultures of India, Cultural Anthropology, Political Anthropology, and Cognitive Anthropology. From January through May, 2009, he taught cultural anthropology and anthropological data collection methods and analysis at St. Cyril Methodius University in Skopje, Macedonia on a Fulbright grant. Previously, Dr. deMunck received a Fulbright grant and lectured in Lithuania.
He teaches Cognitive Anthropology for the Linguistics Program.
Teresa Fredericks
Adjunct Faculty
Office: Faculty Office Building West 7
Phone: (845) 257-2642
E-mail: frederit@newpaltz.edu
Teresa Fredericks is a Ph.D. student in Linguistics at the CUNY Graduate Center. Her primary research interest is formal syntax and its interface with semantics, but she has also conducted research in second language acquisition and literacy, as well as variationist sociolinguistics. She has taught French, Spanish, and linguistics courses at Lehman College, the CUNY Graduate Center, and LaGuardia Community College.
She teaches Introduction to Linguistics and Phonology for the Linguistics Program.
Elizabeth Hester, Department of Communication Disorders
Assistant Professor
Office: HUM B4B
Phone: (845) 257-3465
E-mail: hestere@newpaltz.edu
Elizabeth Hester is Coordinator of Graduate Programs in Communications Disorders. Her primary areas of academic interest are phonology and child language. She received her Master’s Degree from California State University, Fresno, where she subsequently conducted clinic at Valley Children’s Hospital in both patient and outpatient settings. She received her doctoral degree from Wichita State University, where she carried out recently published research with Barbara Hodson on phonological production, working memory, and reading decoding. Her research interests include the study of suprasegmental basis of speech and reading, the evolution of language and speech perception and the precursors of phonological awareness. She currently teaches phonetics, phonology and child language at SUNY New Paltz and enjoys hiking and skiing in the mountains nearby.
She teaches Phonetics and Child Language Acquisition for the Linguistics Program
Xuan-Nga Kam
Adjunct Professor
Office: Faculty Office Building West 7
Phone: (845) 257-2642
E-mail: kamx@newpaltz.edu
Xuan-Nga Kam is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Linguistics at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Her research investigates the ways and extents to which statistics contributes to the acquisition of syntactic structures. She is also involved in several projects that investigate literacy issues in bilingual populations (mainly Spanish/English) and that assess skills needed by students with low L1 and L2 skills to succeed in American public schools. She teaches Linguistics (101, Semantics, Syntax, SLA), Translation and Interpretation classes, both online and at various campuses (CUNY, SUNY, Drew University).
She teaches Introduction to Linguistics, Syntax and Semantics for the Linguistics Program.
Richard Kelder, Co-Director, Center for Teaching and Learning
Adjunct Faculty
Office: HUM 111
Phone: (845) 257-3589
E-mail: kelderr@newpaltz.edu
Richard Kelder is the Associate Director for the Center for Academic Development and Learning, and Co-Director for the Center for Teaching and Learning at SUNY New Paltz. He has an MA in English and has done post-graduate study at New York University and the University at Albany where he is currently completing a Ph.D. in educational theory. His research interests are in language and identity.
He teaches Sociolinguistics for the Linguistics Program.
Daniel Kempton, Department of English
Associate Professor/Graduate Director
Office: JFT 818
Phone: (845) 257-2728
E-mail: kemptond@newpaltz.edu
Daniel Kempton received a doctorate in literature from the University of California, Santa Cruz in 1977. His primary areas of teaching and research are medieval literature and literary theory and his avocation is opera. He has published on Chaucer, Christine de Pizan, Edgar Allan Pie and Benjamin Britton.
He teaches Introduction to Old English and the Development of Modern English for the Linguistics Program.
Bernadette Morris, Department of Communication and Media
Adjunct Faculty
Office: HAB 17
Phone: (845) 257-3111
E-mail: morrisb@newpaltz.edu
Bernadette Morris graduated Summa Cum Laude with a BA Degree from SUNY New Paltz. She completed an MA from SUNY Albany. She is the Registrar in the Records and Registration Department at SUNY New Paltz. She has taught at SUNY New Paltz, SUNY Albany and Russell Sage College in Troy, New York, courses including Public Speaking, Speech Composition and Presentation, Organizational Communication, Theories of Persuasion, Nonverbal Communication, and Interpersonal Communication Seminar.
She teaches Nonverbal Communication for the Linguistics Program.
Jed Shahar, Linguistics Program
Lecturer
Office: Faculty Office Building West-7
Phone: (845) 257-2642
E-mail: shaharj@newpaltz.edu
Jed Shahar graduated with a BA in Mathematics from State University of New York at Binghamton, and recently completed a Ph.D. in Linguistics from the CUNY Graduate Center, 2008. His dissertation, What Some Its Are: Non-referential It, Copy Theory and Extraposition, examined both pre-verbal and post-verbal occurrences of expletive “it.” Among the languages he has studied are Aramaic, Amharic, Hebrew, and Japanese.
He teaches Introduction to Linguistics, Etymology and Morphology, and Syntax for the Linguistics Program.
Stephanie Solt, Linguistics Program
Lecturer
Office: Faculty Office Building West-7
Phone: (845) 257-2642
E-mail: solts@newpaltz.edu
Stephanie Solt completed an MA in Linguistics from the City University of New York Graduate Center (CUNY), and a Ph.D. in Linguistics from the City University of New York Graduate Center (CUNY), where her research interests include formal semantics and language acquisition. Her dissertation research focused on the syntax and semantics of the “adjectives of quantity” many and few. Presently, she is completing a Post-doctoral fellowship on semantics in Berlin, Germany.
She teaches Introduction to Linguistics and Semantics for the Linguistics Program.
Margaret Wade-Lewis, Director, Linguistics Program
Chair, Department of Black Studies
Associate Professor
Office: Faculty Office Building West-1
Phone: (845) 257-2760
E-mail: wadelewm@newpaltz.edu
Margaret Wade-Lewis graduated from the Oklahoma State University with a MA in English, and completed a Ph.D. in Linguistics from New York University in 1988. She serves as Chair of the Department of Black Studies where she teaches courses in Black English, Contemporary Black Literature, Black Women’s Literature, Black Poetry and Drama, and Africana culture, while serving as Director of the Linguistics Program and the Scholar’s Mentorship Program. Before joining the faculty at SUNY New Paltz, she taught at the University of California Santa Barbara; the University of Nebraska, Omaha; and the University of Texas, Austin. Among her research interests are the history of contributions of Black linguists to American linguistics. Her biography, Lorenzo Dow Turner: Father of Gullah Studies (University of South Carolina Press, 2007), received the 2008 College Language Association Book Award. She teaches Black English: Language and Culture and Etymology and Morphology for the Linguistics Program.