KIMBERLY A. B. SWANSON
University of Kansas Email: [email protected] Department of French & Italian Office: 785-864-9066 1445 Jayhawk Boulevard, Wescoe 2180 Lawrence, Kansas 66045
EDUCATION Ph.D., French Linguistics and General Linguistics, Indiana University. 2006. M.A., French Linguistics, Indiana University, Bloomington. 1998. B.A., International Studies, Hamline University, Saint Paul, Minnesota. 1991.
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
Associate Professor & French Language Program Director (2011–present) Department of French and Italian, University of Kansas Wescoe Hall 2103, 1445 Jayhawk Boulevard, Lawrence, Kansas 66045 o Teach all levels of undergraduate French language and culture, as well graduate courses in language pedagogy, structure of French, and history of the French language. o Coordinate first- and second-year French language program, including course design & syllabus for the first-year courses and oversight of second-year coordinator and courses. o Supervise 20-24 GTAs/Lecturers, including 5-day orientation for new GTAs, ongoing pedagogical training, class observations, materials and administrative support, etc. o Contact person for the 400+ students per semester enrolled in first- and second-year French language courses: help with placement, advising, student concerns, etc.
Assistant Professor & French Language Program Director (2006–2011) Department of French and Italian, University of Kansas Wescoe Hall 2180, 1445 Jayhawk Boulevard, Lawrence, Kansas 66045
Acting Assistant Professor & French Language Program Director (2005–2006) Department of French and Italian, University of Kansas Wescoe Hall 2180, 1445 Jayhawk Boulevard, Lawrence, Kansas 66045
Visiting Lecturer (2002–2005) Department of French and Italian, Indiana University Ballantine Hall 642, Bloomington, Indiana 47405
Maître de Langue (English Language Instructor) (2001–2002) UFR Langues Étrangères Appliquées (Department of Applied Foreign Languages) University of Lille III, Roubaix, France.
Assistant to the Editor/Editorial Assistant (1999–2001) Studies in Second Language Acquisition Indiana University, 1105 Atwater Avenue, Bloomington, Indiana 47401
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PUBLICATIONS
Swanson, K. A. B. Dictées in the French Foreign Language Classroom: Prevalence, Perceptions and Findings. (Forthcoming). The French Review. Anderson, R., Dolidon, A., Hackney, M., Martin, E., McMann, L., & Swanson, K. A. B. (2016, 2nd ed.). Workbook/Laboratory Manual for En avant (Elementary French textbook by B. Anderson, P. Golato & S. Blatty). McGraw-Hill. Pp. i-499. Swanson, K. A. B., & Lux, C. (2013, 5th ed.). Testing Program for Quant à Moi (Intermediate French textbook by J. Bragger & D. Rice) on CD-Rom. Heinle-Cengage. Pp. 1-116. Anderson, R., Dolidon, A., Hackney, M., Martin, E., McMann, L., & Swanson, K. A. B. (2012). Workbook/Laboratory Manual for En avant (Elementary French textbook by B. Anderson, P. Golato & S. Blatty). McGraw-Hill. Pp. i-499. Swanson, K. A. B., & Lux, C. (2010). Testing Program for Quant à Moi (Intermediate French textbook by J. Bragger & D. Rice) on CD-Rom. Heinle-Cengage. Pp. 1-116. Swanson, K. A. B., & Lux, C. (2010). Preface to Testing Program for Quant à Moi (Intermediate French textbook by J. Bragger & D. Rice) on CD-Rom. Heinle-Cengage. Pp. iii-xv. Swanson, K. A. B., & Pons, C. (2009). Testing Program for Points de départ (Elementary French textbook by A. Valdman, C. Pons and M. E. Scullen). Pearson-Prentice Hall. Pp. i-552. Swanson, K. A. B. (2005). French F150: Elementary French II (A learning guide). Bloomington, IN: Indiana University, School of Continuing Studies, Independent Study Program. Pp. i-185. Swanson, K. A. B. (2004). French F100: Elementary French I (A learning guide). Bloomington, IN: Indiana University, School of Continuing Studies, Independent Study Program. Pp. i-170. Swanson, K. A. B. (2001). Is first language learning like second language learning? Learning L2 phonology in Optimality Theory. Selected Proceedings of the Second Language Research Forum. Somerville, MA : Cascadilla Press. 23-41. Dekydtspotter, L., Sprouse, R. A., & Swanson, K. A. B. (2001). Reflexes of the mental architecture in second language acquisition: The interpretation of discontinuous combien extractions in English-French interlanguage. Language Acquisition, 9, 175-227. Swanson, K. A. B. (2000). Review of La féminisation des noms de métiers, fonctions, grades, ou titres : Au Québec, en Suisse romande, en France, et en Communauté française de Belgique by P. Bouchard, N. Guilloton, P.Vachon-l’Heureux, J.-F. De Pietro, M.-J. Béguelin, M.-J. Mathiew, & M.-L. Moreau. The French Review, 74. Dinnsen, D. A., McGarrity, L. W., O’Connor, K., & Swanson, K. (1999/2000). On the role of sympathy in acquisition. Language Acquisition, 8, 321-361. Dekydtspotter, L., Sprouse, R., Swanson, K., & Thyre, R. (1999). Semantics, pragmatics, and second language acquisition : The case of combien extractions. In E. Hughes, M. Hughes, & A. Greenhill (Eds.) Proceedings of the Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, 23, 162-171. Somerville, MA : Cascadilla Press.
ONLINE PEDAGOGICAL PROJECT Swanson, K. A. B. & Kendrick J. (2012-present). French à la mode (http://french.dept.ku.edu/index.shtml). Online pedagogical project to supplement current 100- /200-level French curriculum at KU, but open to the public. Web design : Keah Cunningham.
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UNDER REVIEW
Swanson, K.A.B. A bi-directional study of the L2 acquisition of aspiration. (Under review at Language Acquisition). Swanson, K.A.B. Learner variability in the L2 acquisition and suppression of palatalization. (Under review at Language Learning). IN PROGRESS
Swanson, K.A. B. The loss of the absolute genitive and null subjects in French: Reflexes of the same change in the grammar? (Revising for resubmission to Journal of Historical Linguistics). Swanson, K. A. B. Acquiring and suppressing aspiration: The effects of phonological training.. (Revising for submission to Foreign Language Annals). Swanson, K. A. B. The relative difficulty of constraint demotion: Evidence from French and English interlanguage.
CONFERENCES AND PRESENTATIONS
Issues in acquisition versus suppression of phonological properties: Evidence from L2 French and English. Invited talk for the University of Kansas Child Language Proseminar. March 2012. The use of ‘dictées’ and goals for proficiency in the French foreign language classroom. American Association of Teachers of French. Montréal, Canada. July 2011. Exploring the relationship between the absolute genitive and null subjects in Old and Middle French. MidAmerica Medieval Association Conference. Conception, Missouri. February 2010. Paths to acquiring palatalization and spirantization in L2 English. International Symposium on Bilingualism, Utrecht, The Netherlands, July 2009. Acquiring and suppressing aspiration: Emergence of interlanguage constraints. Second Language Research Forum. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. October 2007. Living and serving in Hungary. Peace Corps Around the World series. University of Kansas. March 2007. Acquisition versus suppression of palatalization by second language learners of English and French. Mid-America Linguistics Conference. Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, Illinois. October 2006. (Un)learning an L2 phonological process: A bi-directional study of aspiration. The 12th Annual Mid-Continental Workshop on Phonology. University of Iowa, Iowa City. October 2006. General tendencies and individual differences in L2 phonological acquisition. Invited talk for the KU Department of Linguistics Colloquy. October 2006. Acquisition of phonological rules in L2 English and French. Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida. January 2005. (Un)learning phonological “rules” in a second language: Some evidence from L2 learners of English and French. Presented at 53rd Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference. Charleston, South Carolina. October 2003. Acquisition versus suppression of phonological processes in the second language acquisition of French and English. Invited speaker for the Department of French & Italian’s Student-Faculty Forum series, Indiana University. Bloomington, Indiana. November 2002.
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Current issues in second language phonological acquisition. Invited lecture (with K. M. O’Connor) for Multidisciplinary Seminar in Language Acquisition at Indiana University. Bloomington, Indiana. October 2000. Is second language learning the same as first language learning? Learning L2 phonology. Presented at Second Language Research Forum (SLRF) 2000. Madison, Wisconsin. September 2000. Semantics, pragmatics and second language acquisition: The case of combien…de extractions. (With L. Dekydtspotter, R. Sprouse & R. Thyre) Presented at the 23rd Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, Massachusetts. November 1998. The interpretation of combien…de extractions: The primacy of syntax in second language acquisition. (With L. Dekydtspotter & R. Sprouse) Presented at Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition (GASLA), Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. September 1998.
HONORS, AWARDS, GRANT ACTIVITIES
KU Language Training Center, Department of Defense grant for foreign language training of military personnel. French Program Team Leader (2013-present) Sabbatical award (for Spring 2013), KU CLAS (2012) Outstanding Woman Educator, KU Emily Taylor Woman’s Resource Center (2011) Cramer Professorship for excellence in teaching and research (3-year award) (2009-2011) Jessie Marie Senor Cramer & Ann Cramer Root Award for excellence in teaching and research (2008) KU General Research Fund (GRF) Awards (FY2009, FY2010) KU New Faculty General Research Fund (NFGRF) Award (FY2008) KU International Programs Travel Award (2009) KU CLAS Travel Awards for research (2006 [2], 2007, 2009, 2011)
SERVICE ACTIVITIES
Departmental o Director of the Basic French Language Program (2005-present). Service duties include: -- Administrative support for 20-24 Graduate Teaching Assistants and lecturers (e.g., course scheduling, textbook acquisition and support, development and maintenance of Blackboard teaching resources site, coordination of course-wide assignments/exams and materials, academic misconduct cases, drops/adds, summer school coordination/scheduling, etc.). -- Liaison/mediator between GTAs/lecturers and their students in the 100-/200-level French courses. -- Supervision of assistant language coordinator o Paris Summer Language Institute Co-director (Summers 2013, 2015) o Post-Tenure Review Committee Chair (Spring 2015) o Undergraduate Major/Minor Review Committee (Fall 2013-present) o Core Curriculum Committee (Spring 2012-present) o Graduate Student Admissions Committee (2005-present) o Evaluator for graduate and undergraduate students wishing to fulfill their French language requirement by examination (2005-present) o Faculty Evaluation Board (2006-present) 4
o Search Committees (Office Manager 2006, Asst. Language Coordinator/Lecturer 2007, Asst. Professor of Italian 2007-08, Three-year Lecturer 2008, 2011) o Study Abroad Program Committee (2007-2009) o Instructional Technology Committee. (2005-2006, 2008, 2011) o Graduate and Undergraduate Committees. (2005-2006) College/University o KU Applied English Center – Review Committee for Promotion (Fall 2014) o Department of Germanic Studies – Search Committee for German Lecturer/Language Coordinator (Spring 2014) o School of Languages - Subcommittee on Second Language Studies program (Fall 2013- present) o KU Language Training Center, Department of Defense grant for foreign language training of military personnel. French Program Team Leader (2013-present) o Kansas Core Outcomes – French Committee. (2013-present) o Hall Center Humanities Research Fellowship Committee (Fall 2012) o KU Applied English Center - Co-Chair of Promotion Review Committee (Spring 2011) o Fulbright and Graduate Direct Exchange French Language Evaluator (2005-present) o Fulbright and Graduate Direct Exchange Committee (2008-2009) o JFDP (Junior Faculty Development Program – U.S. Department of State) Orientation session – panel participant “Academic Life at U.S. Universities” (January 2009, 2010, 2011) o KU Center for Teaching Excellence, Ambassador for Dept. of French & Italian (2006- present) o KU Global Scholars Selection Committee (2010, 2011) o KU Global Scholars Mentor (2011-present) o Midwest Association of Graduate Schools Distinguished Master's Thesis Competition – KU Selection Committee (October, 2010) Professional o Promotion & Tenure case – outside reviewer, French Program, University of Maine-Fort Kent (Fall 2015) o External Review for French program at University of Maine-Fort Kent (Spring 2014) o Reviewer for publishers Heinle/Cengage Publishing, McGraw-Hill & Pearson-Prentice Hall. o Reviewer for the journals The Modern Language Journal, Second Language Research, & Studies in Second Language Acquisition. Community Outreach o Coordinator of Shawnee Heights High School visit to KU French & Italian dept. and campus (2006-present) o Volunteer for Peace Corps recruiting events (2007-present)
COURSES TAUGHT AT KU French 110: Elementary French I French 240: Intermediate French II French 241: Intermediate French II – Honors French 310: French Phonetics French 376: Advanced French Conversation
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French 430: La France d’aujourd’hui (French Today) French 440: Studies in French Culture: Linguistic and Social Evolution of French French 499: Honors in French French 500: French Phonetics – Graduate level French 600: Studies in French Language Pedagogy French 701: History of the French Language French 703: Structure of Modern French French 704: Methods of French Language Instruction French 995: Investigation and Conference Departmental 5-day orientation program for new GTAs/Lecturers (week before fall classes)
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
American Association of Teachers of French American Association of University Supervisors and Coordinators Linguistic Society of America Modern Language Association
LANGUAGES
English: native French: near-native Hungarian: intermediate Spanish: elementary Latin: reading
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