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Thomas A. Klingler
Professor - French & Italian
Contact Info
klingler@tulane.edu
Department Affiliation
French & Italian
- 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
- Associate Professor, Tulane University, 1998-2018
- 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-
- 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
- French
- German
- Creole
- Lesser Antilles
- France
- Haiti
- 2017. “La Louisiane.” In Reutner, Ursula (ed.). Manuel de francophonies. Situation sociolinguistique, aménagement linguistique et particularités du français. Berlin : de Gruyter. 394-428
- 2015. “Beyond Cajun: Toward an expanded view of regional French in Louisiana.” In Picone, Michael D. and Catherine Evans Davies (eds.). New perspectives on language variety in the South. Historical and contemporary approaches. Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press. 627-640.
- 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
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