Tulane University

Contact Info
klingler@tulane.edu

Degrees

• B.A., Manchester College, French, 1983
• M.A., Indiana University, French Linguistics, 1986
• M.A., Indiana University, General Linguistics, 1988
• Ph.D., Indiana University, French Linguistics, 1992

Academic Experience

• Associate Professor, Tulane University, 1998-
• Assistant Professor, Tulane University, 1992-1998

Research & Teaching Specializations: Louisiana; Haiti; Language/Linguistics; Creole Languages and Cultures

Related Experience

• Director of Graduate Studies, Department of French and Italian, Tulane University, 2000-2003
• President, CODOFIL Consortium of Louisiana Universities and Colleges, 2002-2003
• Reviewer, National Science Foundation, 1999
• Research Assistant, Louisiana Creole Dictionary Project, 1988-1991
• Editorial Board (comité scientifique) of Nouvelles Etudes Francophones. 2004-

Distinctions

• Named Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Academic (Knight in the Order of the Academic Palmes) by the French Minister of Education, 2013
• National Endowment for the Humanities Research Fellowship, 2004-2005
• Louisiana Board of Regents Support Fund Enhancement Grant, 2003-2006
• American Council of Learned Societies Research Fellowship, 2003-2004
• Cane River National Heritage Area Research Grant, 2003-2004
• Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities Outreach Grant, 2003

Languages: French; German; Creole

Selected Publications

• 2013. “Louisiana Creole.” With Ingrid Neumann-Holzschuh. In The Survey of Pidgin and Creole Languages, vol II, Portuguese-based, Spanish-based, and French-based languages. Susanne Maria Michaelis, Philippe Maurer, Martin Haspelmath, and Magnus Huber, eds. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 229-240.
• 2013. Le Bijou sur le Bayou Teche/The Jewel on the Bayou Teche. With students in FREN 4110/6110 Field Research on French in Louisiana. A documentary of language and culture along Lousiana’s Bayou Teche.
• 2013. “Louisiana Creole structure dataset.” With Ingrid Neumann-Holzschuh. In Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures. Susanne Maria Michaelis, Philippe Maurer, Martin Haspelmath, and Magnus Huber, eds. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
• 2012. “French in a non-Acadian community: A phonological study of the French of Ville Platte, Louisiana.” With Chantal Lyche. In Phonological Variation in French: Illustrations from three continents. Gess Randall, Chantal Lyche and Trudel Meisenberg, eds. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 275-312.
• 2010. “Conversation à la Ville Platte (Louisiana Unis): langue et musique en Louisiane.” In Les variétes du francais parlé dans l’espace francophone. Ressources pour l’enseignement. Detey, Sylvain, Jacques Durand, Bernard Laks and Chantal Lyche, eds. Paris: Ophrys. ISBN 978-2-7080-1283-7. Partie VII, chap. 5. 341-354.
• 2009. “How Much Acadian is there in Cajun?” In Acadians and Cajuns: The Politics and Culture of French Minorities in North America. Ursula Mathis-Moser and Günter Bischof, eds. Innsbruck: Innsbruck University Press. 91-103.
• 2009. Dictionary of Louisiana French as Spoken in Cajun, Creole, and American Indian Communities. With Albert Valdman, et al. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi.
• 2006. “Louisiana Creole at the periphery”. With Nathalie Dajko. In History, Society, and Variation in Pidgins and Creoles. Clancy J. Clements et al., eds. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 11-28.
• 2003. ‘‘If I Could Turn my Tongue Like That”: The Creole of Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press.
• 1998. Dictionary of Louisiana Creole. With Albert Valdman et al. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

Recently-Taught Latin American-Related Courses

• FREN-4080: French Around the World
• ANTH-6415: Pidgins and Creoles

Number of Dissertations or Theses Supervised in the Past 5 Years: 3