Lecturer AY-B, Linguistics & Language Dev
E-mail
Wendy.Shimelman@sjsu.edu
nomdecrayon@gmail.com
Additional Contact Information
Phone Number(s)
Please email - I do not check phone messages
(408) 924-1333
Office Hours
Th 1:30-3:30 and by appointment
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San José State University
One Washington Square, San José, CA 95192-0093
I got my BA in Public Policy at Brown University in Providence, RI. I have two MA's, in Political Science and Philosophy, from the University of California, Berkeley and the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM), respectively. I received my PhD in Linguistics from Universite Laval in Quebec City.
My Master's thesis makes use of the work of Wittgenstein and other linguistic philosophers to offer a new perspective on social contract theory and other long-standing problems of political theory. My dissertation looks at quantified interrogatives (question sentences that include counting words like "all" and "few"). I am still interested in this and other topics in formal semantics, particularly in the semantics of modals and epistemics, although my focus has switched to language documentation. I am currently working with speakers of Yauyos, an extremely endangered Quechuan language spoken in the Peruvian highlands. While at Laval, I taught ESL and writing. At SJSU, I teach Logic and Lingustics (and Yoga). I have also taught in Merrill College at the University of California at Santa Cruz and in the Humanities and Communication department at California State University, Monterey Bay
During my first three years in Quebec I was (way) off grid: I refurbished an old village school house and raised goats in a small village in a region called the Gaspesie. In my "down time," I write poetry. Since coming back to California, I've been enjoying myself trail running, rock climbing and kite surfing. My latest "thing" is aerial circus. "Bikes not bombs!"
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