Assistant Professor of English
Teaching at Kennesaw State since Fall 2009
M.A. in English Language and Literature, 2003, University of Michigan Ph.D. in English Language and Literature, 2009, University of Michigan
Specializations: History of the English Language Contemporary English Linguistics Medieval English Literature
Courses Regularly Taught: ENGL 2172: British Lit Survey to 1660 ENGL 3030: Politics and the English Language ENGL 3035: Intro to English Linguistics ENGL 3040: History of the English Language ENGL 4370: Orthodoxy and Heresy in Medieval Literature
Most Recent or Most Important Publications:
2008 “Borrowed Derivational Morphology in Late Middle English: A Study of the Records of the London Grocers and Goldsmiths.” In Studies in the History of the English Language IV: Empirical and Analytical Advances in the Study of English Language Change. Eds. Susan Fitzmaurice and Donka Minkova (eds.). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.2006 “The Importance of Historical Corpora, Reliability, and Reading.” With Anne Curzan. In Corpus-based Studies in Diachronic English. Eds. Facchinetti and Rissanen. Bern: Peter Lang, 17-34. 2003 (Book Review) “Discourse Studies in Composition.” English for Specific Purposes 22: 422-4. Teaching at Kennesaw State since Fall 2009 M.A. in English Language and Literature,2003, University of Michigan, Ph.D. in English Language and Literature, 2009, University of Michigan Specializations History of the English Language Contemporary English Linguistics Medieval English Literature Courses Regularly Taught ENGL 2172: British Lit Survey to 1660 ENGL 3030: Politics and the English Language ENGL 3035: Intro to English Linguistics ENGL 3040: History of the English Language ENGL 4370: Orthodoxy and Heresy in Medieval Literature Most Recent Publications – 2008 “Borrowed Derivational Morphology in Late Middle English: A Study of the Records of the London Grocers and Goldsmiths.” In Studies in the History of the English Language IV: Empirical and Analytical Advances in the Study of English Language Change. Eds. Susan Fitzmaurice and Donka Minkova (eds.). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 2006 The Importance of Historical Corpora, Reliability, and Reading.” With Anne Curzan. In Corpus-based Studies in Diachronic English. Eds. Facchinetti and Rissanen. Bern: Peter Lang, 17-34. 2003 (Book Review) “Discourse Studies in Composition.” English for Specific Purposes 22: 422-4.
Email: cpalme20@kennesaw.edu
