Roslyn Blyn-LaDrew's Homepage
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
Go raibh
míle maith agat!
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