Joseph Pentangelo
Linguist and folklorist | PhD in Linguistics | Postdoc with Macaulay Honors College | Adjunct Assistant Professor at the College of Staten Island
Recent (2020) PhD in Linguistics at the Graduate Center, CUNY, where I also completed the Medieval Studies certificate program.
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Positions
Education
- PhD Linguistics and Medieval Studies Certificate, The Graduate Center, CUNY (2020)
- MPhil Linguistics, The Graduate Center, CUNY (2017)
- MA Linguistics, The Graduate Center, CUNY (2015)
- BA English: Linguistics, Macaulay Honors College at the College of Staten Island, CUNY (2012)
Academic Interests
Language documentation, language revitalization, historical linguistics, phonesthetics, medieval studies, folklore
Publications
Dissertation
360º Video and Language Documentation: Towards a Corpus of Kanien’kéha (Mohawk)
Journal Articles
Burning Feathers: A Hint at Hysteria in a Connecticut Witchcraft Case
Folklore 132.1 (March 2021): 59–71
Language Snapshot: Kanien’kéha (Mohawk)
Language Documentation and Description 19 (2020): 1–8
A Grove of Folk Art on Staten Island: Documenting the Carvings of W. Dixon
Voices: The Journal of New York Folklore 46.1–2 (Spring–Summer 2020): 3–11
Phonesthetics and the Etymologies of Blood and Bone
English Language and Linguistics [Online: March 2020]
Grizzel Greedigut: A Name ‘No Mortall Could Invent’
Names 67.2 (June 2019): 78–88 [Online: Dec. 2018]
The Grant, the Hare, and the Survival of a Medieval Folk Belief
Folklore 130.1 (March 2019): 48–59
William Fishbough Revealed as Author of ‘The Planchette Mystery’
Notes & Queries 63.2 (June 2016): 263–265
