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Julie A. Tetel

Associate Professor

Julie Tetel is looking forward to returning to Durham after a year in Romania where has been teaching at the University of Bucharest on a Fulbright scholarship. Her association with Romania began about ten years ago, when she was the Director of a United States Information Agency grant that supported a Duke-Bucharest faculty exchange. The prupose of the grant was to help establish the American Studies Program in the English Department at the University of Bucharest. Indeed, ten years later the program is now thriving.

This past year, she has been intensively studying Romanian and has appplied herself to reading and writing and speaking at every chance she gets. In addition, she has been finishing her latest book entitled Constructing Linguistics, an alternative introductory textbook / workbook combination of materials that integrate into the discipline of linguistics the latest findings from the evolutionary, biological, neurological and social sciences. Her book has grown out of a series of experimental introductory courses in linguistics that she has taught at Duke over the last few years, sometimes in the FOCUS program "Exploring the Mind." This means that she particularly likes bringing some of the latest and most speculative research in the most advanced sciences into a format that is underandable for first-year students.

Julie is happy to be living on East Campus not only because she loves life without a car and will be living next to a beautiful gym, but also because she anticipates with great pleasure the many adventures she will be having with the students in Randolph.

314 Allen Building
jtetel@duke.edu
Residence: 103 Randolph (613.1793)

Resides Linguistics

307 Allen
919-684-2741
jtetel@duke.edu