Stefanie Kuzmack

Address

Department of Linguistics

University of Chicago

1010 E. 59th St.

Chicago, IL 60637

e-mail: Kuzmack AT uchicago.edu

website: http://home.uchicago.edu/~kuzmack/

Education

University of Chicago, Department of Linguistics Ph.D. program, September 2001-

present

BA in Cultural Linguistics (Independent Student-Designed Major), (summa cum laude,

valedictorian) St. Mary’s College of Maryland, May 2001

Awards and Fellowships

Doolittle-Harrison Fellowship, 2007

Fuerstenberg Fellowship, 2006-present

Summer FLAS (Title VI) Fellowship for Aymara, 2005

Summer FLAS (Title VI) Fellowship for Mandarin Chinese, 2004

Century Fellowship, University of Chicago, 2001-2006

Dean's Distinguished University Fellowship, Ohio State University, 2001 (declined)

Department of Foreign Language Book Award, St. Mary’s College of Maryland, 2001

Phi Beta Kappa, St. Mary’s College of Maryland, 2000

Dean’s List, St. Mary’s College of Maryland, 1997-2001

France-Russell Fellowship, St. Mary’s College of Maryland, 1997-2001

Presentations

“Ish: A new case of antigrammaticalization,” LSA 2007

“Quotative re: Language change online,” SHEL5 (Studies in the History of the English

Language), 2007

Publications

“Quotative re: Language change online,” Studies in the History of the English Language 5 (forthcoming)

Teaching Experience (all of the following courses were taught at the University of Chicago)

Writing Systems: Linguistic Issues, Winter 2006

Colonial Englishes: Similarities and Differences, Spring 2006

Writing intern for Language and the Human 1, Fall 2007

Writing intern for Language and the Human 2, Winter 2008

Lector for Academic and Professional Writing, Spring 2008

Teaching assistant for Introduction to Linguistics 1 (Syntax, Semantics, and Pragmatics), Fall 2003

Teaching assistant for Language and Globalization, Spring 2005

Teaching assistant for Morphology, Spring 2005

Training courses completed:

Principles of Teaching Writing, Fall 2007

Pedagogies of Writing, Spring 2004

University of Chicago Center for Teaching and Learning seminars attended:

Race in the Classroom, Effective Techniques Used by Successful Teachers, Grading and Responding to Students’ Writing, Course Design, Conversations on Teaching: Lecturing, Discussion

Service

Served on abstract reading committees for the Chicago Linguistic Society, 2002-2008

Languages

English (native speaker)

French: good reading knowledge (6 years)

Spanish (2 years)

Mandarin Chinese (2 years)

Varying degrees of familiarity with: German, Yiddish, Hebrew, Russian, Meskwaki (Fox), Aymara