Where can I learn more about the Linguistics program and/or about the field of linguistics?
Associate Professor Stefano Mula (Italian) is the program’s director: smula@middlebury.edu. If you are currently enrolled in a Linguistics class, you can also contact that professor or get in touch with any of the other affiliated faculty listed above.
The following websites are good places to start to learn more about linguistics and its subfields:
Which Middlebury faculty are affilliated with the Linguistics program?
Program Director: Stefano Mula
Steering Committee: Aline Germain-Rutherford; Hang Du, Florence Feiereisen, Shawna Shapiro, Usama Soltan, Andrei Barashkov (currently on leave)
What do linguists do? What are possible career paths?
Sociolinguistics researchers (and/or linguistic anthropologists) may work to preserve dying languages, study the relationships between languages, both extant and extinct, or act as consultants for programs and policies in education or other sectors (e.g., bilingual education, language policy, language rights, etc.). Computational linguists work on projects such as text-to-speech or speech-to-text applications, voice recognition, automatic translation, information retrieval, e-learning, etc.