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Dr. Roslyn Blyn-LaDrew teaches Linguistics 130/131 (Elementary Irish), Linguistics 230/231 (Intermediate Irish) at the University of Pennsylvania's Penn Language Center.

In Summer 1997 she will teach History of the Irish Language (LING 449), Tuesday evenings, 6:00-9:10. In 1996, she taught Advanced Irish in Summer Sessions I and II. She is also a Member-at-Large for NAACLT (North American Association for Celtic Language Teachers) and is the Chairperson for the Association's 1997 conference in Antigonish, Nova Scotia.

She has also taught Folklore of Britain and Ireland (FOLK 347) and Children's Folklore (Folk 235) in the University's Department of Folklore and Folklife, where she earned her Ph.D. in 1995. She also served as a teaching assistant for Introduction to Folklore, with Dr. Robert St. George, and for Jazz and Blues, with Professor Francis Davis.

As an undergraduate she majored in Folklore and Mythology and Celtic Languages and Literature at Harvard University, and spent a Junior Year Abroad at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. Her undergraduate program included Old and Modern Irish, Scottish Gaelic, Modern and Medieval Welsh, and Breton languages, as well as folklore, literature, linguistics, and history. She took summer courses in Irish Gaelic (Rann-na-Feirste, Co. Donegal), Welsh (Cwrs Carlam Cymraeg, Aberystwyth), and Scottish Gaelic (Stornoway, Isle of Lewis) and has traveled in Cornwall and Brittany.

For further information, please contact either
Linguistics Department
619 Williams Hall
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia PA 19104-6305
(phone: 215-898-6046)

or Penn Language Center
401 Lauder-Fischer Hall
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6330
(phone: 215-898-6039; fax: 215-573-2139)

or email: rblyn@sas.upenn.edu

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