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1. Information for my advisees
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2. Writing A Paper for me
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3. Make It Work: 
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Course Being Taught Fall, 2008

Physical Classroom:   

  ENGL220: Introduction to Language Studies
   (2 sections: 11:00, 2:30 T/Th)
     Textbooks:

1. Fasold and Connor-Linton.  An Introduction to Language and Linguistics.
   Cambridge U.P., 2006.  ISBN 0-521-61235-7
2. Pinker, Steven. The Stuff of Thought. Viking Adult
   September 11, 2007

MU-Online: (These courses have no physical presence on campus.)

  221: Introduction to Linguistic Analysis
             Required Textbooks:

1. Allan, Keith; Kate Burridge. Forbidden Words: Taboo and the Censoring of Language. Cambridge U.P. ISBN 0521525640
2. Anderson, Stephen R. . Doctor Dolittle's Delusion: Animals and the Uniqueness of Human Language. Yale U.P., 2006 ISBN 0300115253
3. Pinker, Steven. The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language. Morrow Press, ISBN: 0060958332

   Note on Allan and Burridge: Cultures and their languages have taboos, things that are, well, virtually unspeakable by some people under some circumstances. In order to examine the phenomenon, we have to actually encounter such words. So hang tough. You aren't being encouraged to employ (or refrain from employing, for that matter) such words and concepts. So, just remember that this is a class for adults and try not to get too squeamish. If you feel that will tax your own belief system, making you uncomfortable, I'd suggest you drop this course and take another.

ENGL403/60 Chaucer
     Textbooks: 

1. Benson, Larry. Riverside Chaucer (It's all his works, not just the Canterbury Tales) Available in paperback. Oxford Univ. Press.
2. Horobin and Smith An Introduction to Middle English, Oxford Univ . Press, 2003, ISBN:0195219503

Access Information:  These materials as well as my course websites are password protected to protect both your privacy and course integrity.  If you are enrolled in one of my course or are my advisee, you will be provided with the necessary logon and password information.  If you need it right away, email me at bduncan@millersville.edu. I will check your enrollment/advisement status and respond with the appropriate information.

Areas of Specialization

Teaching/Learning

Medieval Literature

Linguistics

Women's Studies

Business Communication

Learning/Sharing

Women's Studies Steering Committee

Executive Editor, ReSoundings

Medieval Medicine, Particularly Ophthalmology

Medieval Women's Intellectual and Creative Work

ENGL220: Introduction to Language Studies

ENGL 221: Introduction to Linguistic Analysis

ENGL 316: Business Writing

ENGL 337: Women Writers of the Middle Ages

ENGL 402/602: Middle English

ENGL 403/603: Chaucer

ENGL465: Neurolinguistics

ENGL 676: Business Writing for Managers and Executives