Ti Alkire, Senior Lecturer of Italian & French Language

Ti Alkire is a Senior Lecturer in French and Italian. He earned a B.A. and M.A. in French language and civilization from Middlebury College, and attended the college’s summer language schools four times. He recently completed his Ph.D. in Romance linguistics at Cornell University. In addition to French and Italian, he has studied Spanish, Portuguese, Romanian, Latin, as well as some Arabic and Dutch. He spent the bulk of his twenties in Europe - four years in France (Paris), and four years in Italy (Turin) - and occasionally still wonders why he left.

Over the past fifteen years he has taught French and Italian language courses, including specialized courses such as French phonetics. He has participated in the development of graduate teaching assistants in both French and Italian. His research interests include non-standard varieties of French and Italian, French and Italian linguistics (in particular morphology, semantics, and the lexicon), semiotics, and translation theory.

In his free time he enjoys reading, long walks in the woods, cooking, camping, swimming, movies, working out, and listening to music. His domestic life revolves around his beloved dog, Honey Pie.

RECENT COURSES

Elementary Italian
Continuing Italian
French for Reading – Grads
Pronunciation of Modern French
French Advanced Composition and Conversation II