Languages at UNE
The Department of English and Language Studies seeks to give students an international perspective through the study of foreign languages.
The department currently offers courses in Spanish, French, and Arabic. These courses combine both traditional language instruction with cultural elements of the respective language.
Additionally, the department partners with the Office of Global Education to periodically offer unique travel-study courses where the class first engages in language and cultural study at UNE and then embarks to a country where the language in question is spoken.
Interested students are encouraged to contact the instructors below:
Steven Eric Byrd
Assistant Professor of Spanish & Portuguese, Director of Latin American Studies Minor
Marcil Hall 26
Phone: 207-602-2579
Email: sbyrd@une.edu
Expertise
Spanish and Portuguese language teaching and linguistics, Afro-Brazilian speech, Latin American Studies
Research Interests/ Scholarship
Sociolinguistics and dialectology of Latin America, Latin American languages and cultures
Camille Kennedy Vande Berg
Instructor
Marcil Hall 25
Phone: 207-602-2260
Email: cvandeberg@une.edu
Expertise
ACTFL Superior-level proficiency in French and Spanish, Advanced-level in Italian.
Frederick MacNeill Hoyt
Faculty Adjunct
Marcil Hall 120
Phone: 207-602-2509
Email: fhoyt@une.edu
Expertise
Arabic linguistics; formal syntax and semantic theory; formal pragmatics and discourse semantics; intonational phonology; historical linguistics (Germanic, Celtic, Semitic); Anglo-Saxon language and literature; "Tolkienian" linguistics.
