Lilia I. Bartolomé, Professor

Ph.D. in Language, Literacy and Culture, Stanford University. Areas of expertise: language and literacy development, multicultural education and bilingual education, qualitative research methods.
Office Location: Wheatley Bldg., 6th floor, room 75
Office Hours: Monday after class and upon request
Email: lilia.bartolome@umb.edu
Tel: 617-287-5762

Corinne Etienne, Associate Professor
 Ph.D.in French Linguistics, Indiana University. Areas of expertise: language contacts and language attitudes in Creole speaking areas (in particular Haiti), foreign language pedagogy, and teacher cognition.
Office Location: Wheatley Bldg., 6th floor, room 77
Office Hours: on leave during S '09 semester
Email: corinne.etienne@umb.edu
Tel: 617-287-6750

Panayota Gounari, Assistant Professor
Ph.D. in Language and Literacy Education, Pennsylvania State University. Areas of expertise: cultural studies in education, critical pedagogy, language and literacy education, bilingualism, language and literacy, technology in language education and psycholinguistics.

Office Location: Wheatley Bldg., 6th floor, room 81
Office Hours: Monday 2:00- 3:30, Tuesday 2:30- 4:00 by appointment
Email: panagiota.gounari@umb.edu
Tel: 617-287-5765
Website: http://www.faculty.umb.edu/panagiota_gounari/

Pepi Leistyna, Associate Professor
Ed.D in Teaching and Learning, Harvard Graduate School of Education. Areas of Interest: Critical Pedagogy, Cultural Studies, and Media Literacy.
Office Location: Wheatley Bldg., 6th floor, room 78
Office Hours: Tuesday 3:00- 4:30pm, Wednesday 5:30- 7pm and by appointment
Email: Pleistyna@hotmail.com
Tel: 617-287-6737

Donaldo Macedo, Department Chair

Ph.D., Ed.D. in Language Behavior/ Applied Psycholinguistics, Boston University. Areas of expertise: sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, and linguistics and contrastive analysis.
Office Location: Wheatley Bldg., 6th floor, room 80
Office Hours: By appointment only
Email: donaldo.macedo@umb.edu
Tel: 617-287-5760

Charles Meyer, Professor

Areas of expertise.: general linguistics, structure of the English Language, corpus linguistics, history of the English language, and English as a world language.
Office Location: Wheatley Bldg., 6th floor, room 68
Office Hours: Tuesday & Thursday 1:30- 3:30pm and by appointment
Email: meyer@cs.umb.edu
Tel: 617-287-6748

Candace Mitchell, Associate Professor

Ph.D. Applied Linguistics, Boston University. Areas of expertise: linguistics, critical discourse analysis, narrative analysis, theories, principles, methods and approaches for teaching ESL, and cross-cultural communication.
Office Location: Wheatley Bldg., 6th floor, room 79
Office Hours: Monday 1:45-3:45pm and by appointment
Email: candace.mitchell@umb.edu
Tel: 617-287-6741

Arda Arikan, Ph.D.                                                                                     Ph.D. in Language and Literacy Education, Bilingual and Multicultural Education Option Area, Pennsylvania State University.                                                       Areas of expertise: Teaching of English as a Foreign Language, cultural issues in education, materials development, CALL, qualitative research methods.        Office Location: Online Email: ardaari@gmail.com

Kristina Beckman                                                                                      Ph.D in in Second Language Acquisition and Teaching, University of Arizona. Areas of interest include sociolinguistics, forensic linguistics, rhetorical discourse, cultural norms in the classroom, and written/spoken proficiency assessment. Her book, An Immigrant’s Run-in with the Law: A Forensic Linguistic Analysis, was published in 2007 by LFB Scholarly Publishers. Dr. Beckman has presented her work at numerous national and international conferences. She has taught English as a Foreign Language in China and Japan, and looks forward to future summer teaching experiences abroad.

Mary Cazabon, Lecturer
Ed.D. in Leadership in Urban Schools, University of Massachusetts Boston. Areas of expertise: Innovative bilingual education, urban schools,writing theories, principles, and testing in second language instruction
Office location: Cambridge Public Schools Bilingual Office
Tel: 617-2349-6400
Email: mar.caz@verizon.net

Kate Kiss                                                                                                       Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction, University of Florida.                                Areas of interest: Literacy pedagogy and development (especially writing), professional/personal/cultural identity development, foreign language pedagogy and systems theory, phenomenology, literacy and artistic thinking.              Office Location: Online                                                                             Office Hours: By appointment                                                                   Email: kkiss5@gmail.com; katherine.kiss@umb.edu

Luis-Gustavo Martinez, Senior Policy Analyst, Education Policy and Practice Department, National Education Association (NEA)
Areas of expertise: English Language Learners' Federal and State legislation policy; Title III Program External Evaluator; language acquisition, curriculum and instruction; multicultural education, bilingual education, assessment, and scientific research in education.
Office Location: NEA Headquarters, Suite 310, 1201 16TH Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C.  20036
Office Hours: Monday 4-6 On-line and upon request
Email: luis.martinez@umb.edu or lgmartinez@nea.org
Tel: 202-822-7396

Alina C. Pajtek                                                                                         PhD candidate (ABD) in Applied Linguistics, The Pennsylvania State University.  Areas of interest: discourse analysis, language and society, language and culture, psycholinguistics, and discourse-functional grammar.
Office: Online
Email: alina.pajtek@umb.edu

Tim Sieber, Professor of Anthropology

Ph.D. Anthropology, New York University
Areas of Expertise: Childhood, urban anthropology, applied anthropology, the culture history of Amazonia, and immigrant and minority education, cross cultural perspectives.
Office Location: McCormack Bldg., 4th floor, Room 437
Tel: 617-287-6853
Email: tim.sieber@umb.edu

George Smith, Associate Professor of English
Associate Professor, Ph.D. University of Virginia. Areas of expertise: linguistics, psycholinguistics, and second language acquisition.

Office Location: Wheatley Bldg., 6th floor, room 104
Email: gwsmith010@yahoo.com

 OFFICE STAFF

Michele Ladanyi, Program Coordinator
Office Location: Wheatley Bldg., 6th floor, room 103
Email: michele.ladanyi@umb.edu
Phone:  617-287-5760

Elizabeth Cobb, Staff Assistant                                                     Office Location: Wheatley Bldg., 6th floor, room 104
Email: elizabeth.cobb@umb.edu                                                    Phone:  617-287-5764