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Ti Alkire
Senior Lecturer of French and Italian Language

E-mail: eha1@cornell.edu 

Ti Alkire has taught both French and Italian language at all levels and has received a Russell Award for Excellence in Teaching. He holds a B.A. and an M.A. in French Language and Civilization from Middlebury College and a Ph.D. in Romance Studies from Cornell University. He also attended seminars at Université Paris X (Nanterre) and at the Sorbonne’s Centre d’argotologie, Université Paris V (René Descartes). His dissertation, written under the direction of Linda Waugh, applies Jakobsonian and Peircean theory to the analysis of Raymond Queneau’s Exercices de style and its English and Italian translations.

Romance Languages: A Historical Introduction, which Alkire co-authored with Carol Rosen, is forthcoming from Cambridge University Press.

His teaching and research interests include French and Italian linguistics, historical Romance linguistics, language variation, semiotics, and translation.

RECENT COURSES

French Stylistics
Pronunciation of Standard French
Beginning Italian I and II

Intermediate Italian II