Curriculum Vitae
 

Matthew H. Ciscel

Associate Professor

320 Willard Hall, 1615 Stanley St, New Britain, CT 06050, (860) 832-2749 ciscelm@ccsu.edu

Education

2002 Ph.D., Areas: second language acquisition theory and sociolinguistics, University of South Carolina, Columbia
Dissertation Title: 'Language and Identity: L2 acquisition in post-Soviet Moldova'

1996 M.A., Areas: Germanic linguistics and 20th Century German culture, University of Iowa, Iowa City

1991 B.A. cum laude, Major: German, Minor: psychology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

 

Academic Positions

2007-present Associate Professor, Department of English, Central Connecticut State University, New Britain

2002-2007 Assistant Professor, Department of English, Central Connecticut State University, New Britain

Fall 2001 Visiting Instructor, Faculty of Modern Languages, Moldova State University, Chişinău

 

Recent Grants and Awards

2006 Faculty Development Grant from CSU and CSU-AAUP

2003 Faculty Research Grant from CSU and CSU-AAUP

2001 Advanced Research Fellowship from the U.S. State Department for dissertation fieldwork in Moldova from September through December, administered through the American Councils Combined Research and Language Training Program

 

Publications

Summer 2007 The Language of the Moldovans: Romania, Russia, and Identity in an ex-Soviet republic, Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books.

Fall 2006 ‘A separate Moldovan language? The sociolinguistics of Moldova’s Limba de Stat,’ Nationalities Papers.

Spring 2005 ‘Language and Identity in Post-Soviet Moldova.’ Chapter in an electronic volume of research articles expanded from presentations at the Consequences of Mobility conference, Roskilde, Denmark, 2003 (http://www.ruc.dk/isok/skriftserier/Mobility/)

Spring 2004 'Language and Ideology in the Print Media of Post-Soviet Moldova.' Balkanistica 17, 23-42.

Fall 2002 ‘Linguistic Opportunism and English in Moldova.’ World Englishes 21:3, 403-419.

Fall 2000 ‘Language Attitude and Identity in the European Republics of the Former Soviet Union.’ Texas Linguistic Forum 44:1, 48-61 (Proceedings of SALSA VIII, edited by Ritsuko Kataoka, Cassandra Moore, and Katherine Zilkh), with Richard Hallett and Angela Green, Website: www.utexas.edu/students/salsa/salsaproceedings/salsa8/salsa8contents.html.

Recent Conference Papers

May 2007 'A Big Deal in Moldova: The English wedge in post-Soviet politics of bilingualism.' International Symposium on Bilingualism 6, Hamburg, Germany.

March 2007 'Big Deal: Code, Script and Image in Moldovan Signage.' The Language of Images: A two-day international, interdisciplinary conference on Text and Image, CCSU, Connecticut.

November 2006 'Ocupatie or Okkupatsiya? Discourses and Images from "indepedent" Moldova.' Dialogue Under Occupation (DUO) Conference, Chicago, Illinois.

March 2006 ‘A separate Moldovan language? The sociolinguistics of Moldova’s Limba de Stat.’ The 11th Annual World Convention of the Association for the Study of Nationalities, New York

October 2005 'Imagined Proficiencies: An exploration of identity and attitude in SLA.'  A poster presentation at the Second Language Research Forum, New York

March 2005 'Language, Education, and Empire: On language policies in Moldova and Transnistria.' International Symposium on Bilingualism 5, Barcelona, Spain

November 2004 'Wealth and Denial: Contemporary stories of multilingualism in Connecticut.' Conference of the Atlantic Provinces Linguistic Association, Orono, Maine

October 2003 'Penning the Voice: A workshop on strategies for academic writing in ESL.' ConnTESOL 2004 Conference, New Britain, Connecticut

October 2003 'Romanian, Russian or English: Language and globalization in Moldova.'  American Society of Geolinguistics Conference, New York

May 2003 ‘Language and Identity in post-Soviet Moldova.’ The Consequences of Mobility: Linguistic and Sociocultural Contact Zones, Roskilde, Denmark

April 2003 'Bilingual Attitudes and Practices: A critique of the matched guise technique.' International Symposium on Bilingualism 4, Tempe, Arizona

 

Research Interests

Social factors in second language acquisition theory
Non-standard and L2 Englishes
Adult second language teaching approaches and methodologies
Language planning and policy
Central and Eastern European history and civilization

 

University Service

2007-present Director of the Program in Slavic and East European Studies, CCSU

Spring 2007 Acting Assistant Chair of the English Department, CCSU

Spring 2006 Temporary Coordinator of the Graduate TESOL programs, Dept of English, CCSU

2003-present Departmental Committees on Appointments, Elections, Budget, and Website for the Department of English, CCSU.

2003-present Member of the Board for Connecticut Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (ConnTESOL), including role in bringing its annual conference to CCSU 2003-2006.

 

Languages  (Isn't that what linguists really do, speak a bunch of languages?)

L1: English
L2: German (advanced) & Romanian (intermediate)
Some knowledge of Russian (2 years instruction), French (1), Swahili (1), & Swedish (1/2)