Gyula Zsombok
Associate Director of the Middlebury Initiative for Data and Digital Methods; Assistant Professor of French & Francophone Studies
- Office
- Le Chateau 103
- Tel
- (802) 443-3044
- gzsombok@middlebury.edu
- Office Hours
- Fall 2025: Mondays 2:15-3:15 pm; Tuesdays 9:00 am-11:00 am and by appointment
Gyula Zsombok joined Middlebury College in 2020 as an Assistant Professor in French and Francophone Studies. He earned his Ph.D. in French Linguistics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Professor Zsombok’s research explores the interplay of language ideologies and authority in French, particularly within the contexts of France and Québec. He focuses on the social dynamics of top-down language interventions, examining how these efforts influence borrowings, lexical innovation, and inclusive writing. His research methods employ computational and statistical analysis of diverse textual data, including social media, newspaper articles, survey responses, web-scraped content, and more.
In English, his name is approximately pronounced as “JOO-lah ZHOM-bok” or IPA /’dʒula ‘ʒombok/.