Devon L. Strolovitch
381 Adams St. Apt.B
Oakland, CA 94610
(510) 271-8004
Education
Ph.D. in Linguistics, Cornell University, August 2005. Dissertation title: Old Portuguese in
Hebrew Script: Convention, Contact, and Convivência.
Intensive Portuguese Summer
Course, Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal. 2002.
Institut National des Langues et Civilisations
Orientales, Paris, France.
Coursework in Judeo-Spanish, Judeo-Arabic, Yiddish, and Persian
languages. 2001-2002
M.A. in Linguistics, Cornell University, September 2000. Qualifying paper titles: Reassessing the
interaction of Spanish and Portuguese in Sephardic Jewish history; Texts for
the study of Hebrew-letter writing systems.
Intensive Yiddish Summer Program, Oxford Institute for Yiddish Studies, Oxford,
UK. 1999.
B.A.
with Highest Honors in Linguistics
(Individual Major), Minor in Anthropology, Oberlin
College, Oberlin, OH, May 1997. Senior Honors
Thesis, Modern Hebrew: A Contact Language in Search of a Genetic Past.
University of Wales, Bangor, UK. Coursework in Phonology, Syntax,
Psycholinguistics, and Welsh language.
Spring 1996.
Instructor, French I and French II,
Piedmont Adult School, Piedmont, CA. Summer
2006.
Instructor, French 630,
Academic French for Reading,
Cornell University. Spring
2004/2005.
Instructor, French 209,
Intermediate Composition & Conversation, Cornell University. Fall 2004.
Instructor, French 123,
Accelerated Elementary French,
Cornell University. Fall 2003.
Instructor, French
121-122, Elementary French, Cornell
University. 2002-2003.
Lecteur d'Anglais, English
Conversation and Phonetics Lab, Universit de Paris XII Val-de-Marne,
France. 2000-2001
Co-instructor,
Liguistics 390, Practicum in Corpus Linguistics, Cornell University. Spring 2000.
Instructor, First Year
Writing Seminar, We
Are What We Speak, Cornell
University, 1998-2000.
Undergraduate teaching
at Oberlin College: Instructor, The Beatles (Experimental College,
Fall 1995), Teaching Assistant, Elementary
French 101-102 (1994-95).
Teacher
Training
Language Teacher Training Workshop, Department of Romance Studies. Covered methods in second-language teaching, classroom strategies, and curriculum development. 2002.
Teaching Writing, John S. Knight Writing
Institute. Summer course
covered facilitating discussion in seminars, designing assignment sequences,
assessment, transitioning first-year students into college writing. Concurrent with work as Teaching Assistant,
Critical Reading and Writing
(Instructor: M. Migiel). 1998.
"Old Portuguese in Hebrew
script: contact, cosmology, and convivencia," talk
presented at Medieval Studies Colloquium, Cornell University, March 2003.
Passover in
medieval Iberia I: Seder instructions
in a Spanish mahzor. Cornell
Working Papers in Linguistics 17:
42-49.
Passover in
medieval Iberia II: Two Portuguese mahzorim. Cornell Working Papers in Linguistics 17: 50-59.
Selections from a
Portuguese treatise in Hebrew script. Cornell Working Papers in
Linguistics 17: 185-196.
Co-editor, Cornell Working
Papers in Linguistics 17: Romance Philology.
Spring 2000.
"Portuguese language,
Hebrew script: conventions in contact," talk presented at Annual
Linguistics Graduate Student Conference, Cornell University. December 1999.
"Jewish language beyond
Yiddish," invited lecture in Linguistics XXX, Yiddish Linguistics
(Instructor: M. Diesing). November
1999.
Co-editor, Semantics and Linguistic
Theory VIII & IX.
1998, 1999.
Field of Linguistics Research Grant, Cornell Department of Linguistics. Spring 2002.
Sage Fellowship, Cornell Graduate School. 2001-2002.
Teaching Exchange with Universit
de Paris XII Val-de-Marne.
2000-2001
Graduate Summer Research
Fellowship, Cornell Department of Linguistcs. 1999-2001.
John S. Knight Institute
Teaching Writing Internship, Cornell University. Summer 1998.
Sage Fellowship, Cornell Graduate
School. 1997-1998.
Phi
Beta Kappa, elected Fall 1996.
Professional
Experience and Affiliations
Team Teaching (, Elementary
French (122), Cornell
University. Spring 2003.
Office Manager, Cornell Linguistics Circle
Publications. 1998-2000,
2003-2004.
Translator (Spanish-English), The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, Paris, France. 2001-2002.
Peer Collaboration Program, John S.
Knight Writing Program, Cornell University. Fall 1999.
Member, Cornell Linguistics
Circle. 1997-present.
English Native speaker.
French Near-native
fluency.
Hebrew Reading:
Excellent. Speaking/writing: Good.
Yiddish Reading:
Excellent. Speaking/writing: Good.
Spanish Reading:
Excellent. Speaking/writing: Good.
Portuguese Reading:
Excellent. Speaking/writing: Good.
Welsh Reading/writing: Good. Speaking: Basic.
Others
studied: Judeo-Spanish, Persian, Wolof, Old Irish, Arabic, German, Breton, Hungarian, Latin, Classical Greek.