Languages and Linguistics Faculty

Mark Gedney

Dean, School of Humanities and Social Science
Professor of Philosophy

Gedney has been teaching in the philosophy program at Gordon since 1998, after completing an MLitt at the University of Edinburgh and his PhD in 1995 from Boston University. His most recent work has focused on the central role of recognition in social and political life. In particular, he has examined the power of radical hospitality to open up new pathways to restoring mutual recognition in places burdened by persistent violence. In addition ... more ➔

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Graeme Bird

Professor of Linguistics
Professor of Classics
Linguistics Program Director

Dr. Bird is a native of New Zealand and has been teaching full-time at Gordon since 2001. His interests include Greek and Latin language and literature, Indo-European linguistics, and early English literature. He is a participant in the Harvard-affiliated Homer Multi-text Project, with a chapter in a book due out in the fall dealing with a celebrated medieval manuscript of Homer's Iliad. He enjoys exploring the connections between ... more ➔

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Susan Bobb

Professor of Psychology

Dr. Bobb joined the Gordon faculty in the fall of 2015, coming from Northwestern University where she had been a Research Associate working on the neural correlates of bilingual language processing and cognitive control. Dr. Bobb’s research program is broadly developmental, using both behavioral methods (e.g., eye-tracking; response times) and neuroscience methods (e.g., EEG) to investigate the process of learning a first or second language ... more ➔

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Ian DeWeese-Boyd

Professor of Philosophy and Education

Ian DeWeese-Boyd majored in philosophy at the University of South Carolina. He next earned a Master of Arts with an emphasis in New Testament exegesis at Covenant Theological Seminary. At Saint Louis University, where he earned his doctorate in 2001, he studied under Eleonore Stump, who directed his dissertation, Self-Deception and Moral Responsibility. Ian joined the philosophy department at Gordon in 1999. His ... more ➔

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Damon DiMauro

Professor of French
Languages Program Director

The sitter for this self-portrait has a primary interest in Early Modern French Literature and Reformation Studies, with a secondary interest in Italian Renaissance, while indulging an occasional foray into contemporary literature, genealogy, and horological history. His articles have appeared in Bibliothèque d’Humanisme et Renaissance, La Nouvelle Revue du Seizième Siècle, Etudes Rabelaisiennes, Renaissance and Reformation, Renaissance-Humanisme-Réforme, Bulletin de la Société de l’Histoire du Protestantisme Français, The French Review, French Studies Bulletin, Nineteenth-Century French Studies, Romania, The Romanic Review, La Valmasque, Classical and Modern Literature, Iris, The Essex Genealogist, American Ancestors Magazine, National Association of Watch and Clock Collectors Bulletin, The Timepiece Journal, Notes & Queries, The Historical Journal of Massachusetts, ... more ➔

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William J. Hanna

Lecturer of Linguistics

Bill Hanna has been adjunct faculty at Gordon since 2020, teaching a course in Sociolinguistics. He lived in Thailand for 36 years where he taught linguistics at two universities. He also worked with teams of pastors who are translating the Bible into their own minority languages. His interests include the syntax and morphology of Southeast Asian languages, and the Tai Lue language.

Selected publications:

Dai Lue-English Dictionary. ... more ➔

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