| EDUCATION | Ph.D. | 1980 | The University of Chicago |
| M.A. | 1973 | The University of Chicago | |
| M.A. | 1973 | The University of the West Indies, Jamaica | |
| Certificate in Linguistics | 1970 | Charles University, Prague | |
| B.A. Hons. | 1966 | The University of Delhi, India | |
| THESES | Doctoral Dissertation: "Aspect and Aktionsart in Slavic and Indo-Aryan: A Semantic Approach." | ||
| Master's Thesis (U. West Indies): "Milton Criticism: 18th-Century Currents and Samuel Johnson." | |||
| PRESENT POSITION | 2006 | Senior Research Scholar The Jospeph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Center for Jewish Studies The University of Maryland College Park, MD |
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| Adjunct Associate Professor Department of English The University of Maryland—University College Adelphi, MD |
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| 2005 | Member, Editorial Committee, Hermès Journal of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) Paris |
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| PAST POSITIONS | 1999-06 | English Instrutor Lado International College Silver Spring, Maryland |
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| 1996-98 | Adjunct Teaching, Research in Israel | ||
| 1991-95 |
Asst. Professor, Dept. of Englishr DePaul University, Chicago |
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| 1987-90 | Research Associate, Committee on Human Development, U. Chicago | ||
| 1987-88 | Lecturer, Adult Education, City Colleges of Chicago | ||
| 1986 | Visiting Fellow, Center for Psychosocial Studies, Chicago | ||
| 1981-84 |
Lecturer (= Asst. Professor) Dept. of English Language and Literature National University of Singapore |
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| 1973-80 |
Lecturer in Czech Dept. of Slavic Languages and Literatures The University of Chicago |
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| COMMITTEE WORK | Served on Multiculturalism Implementation Committee and its Definition Subcommittee, DePaul University, Summer 1994 | ||
| GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS | 1996 |
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar on Jewish Cultural Studies |
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| 1989 |
International Society for General Semantics, Sanford I. Berman Award |
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| 1988 | Spencer Foundation Grant | ||
| 1982 |
Research Grant #RP4/82 for travel and research at U. Hawaii National University of Singapore |
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| TEACHING EXPERIENCE | Developed and taught courses in Modern Rhetoric, Semantics, Varieties of English, English as a Second Language | ||
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Introductory Literature College Writing and Research I & II ENG 300 Advanced Composition |
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Tutored in Phonetics, Grammar of Modern English Taught at all levels—high school, undergraduate, graduate, adult education |
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| BOOKS | 2005 Wittgenstein and Judaism: A Triumph of Concealment. (Series: Studies in Judaism, v. 1). New York: Peter Lang. Nominated for Jewish Book Award of the Koret Foundation, San Francisco, in the category "Modern Jewish Thought." Basis of panel at Annual Meeting of the Association for Jewish Studies, Washington, DC, December 2005. Quoted in Encyclopedia Judaica (new 2nd edition, 2006) | ||
| 1988 Aspect and Meaning in Slavic and Indic. With a Foreword by Paul Friedrich. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins | |||
| 1984 Tropic Crucible: Self and Theory in Language and Literature. Co-edited with Colin E. Nicholson. Singapore University Press | |||
| ARTICLES | 2006 Four articles on prominent linguists, commissioned by Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics 2 (Elsevier Scientific). Section Editor: Prof. Kurt Jankowsky, Georgetown University | ||
| 1995 "Derrida e gli etnografi." Translated into Italian by Il Mondo 3, Rivista di teoria delle scienze umane e sociali. II:1, April 1995, 234-41. | |||
| 1994 "After Privacy: Linguistic Reflections on the Personal and the Political." Translated into Italian. In Parolechiave. Nuova serie di Problemi del socialismo. Rome | |||
| 1992 "Judaic Motifs in Wittgenstein." In Robert S. Wistrich, ed. Austrians and Jews in the Twentieth Century. London: St. MartinŐs Press | |||
| 1991 "Rossi-Landi's Wittgenstein: 'A Philosopher's Meaning is his Use in the Culture.'" Semiotica 84-4/4: 275-283. | |||
| 1986 "Wittgenstein." Encyclopedic Dictionary of Semiotics. The Hague: Mouton de Gruyter | |||
| 1985 "Reading Whorf through Wittgenstein: A Solution to the Linguistic Relativity Problem." Lingua 67: 37-63 | |||
| 1985 "Linguistics and Rule-Skepticism." Journal of Literary Semantics XIV/3: 174-85 | |||
| 1984 "Before and Beyond Linguistics: The Case of Professor Nietzsche, Philologist." In Colin E. Nicholson and Ranjit Chatterjee, eds. Tropic Crucible: Self and Theory in Language and Literature. Singapore: Singapore University Press | |||