Janet Sedlar
Senior Lecturer and Spanish Language Coordinator
Office: Gates-Blake 213
Phone: 773/702-7926
janetsedlar@uchicago.edu
Janet Sedlar specializes in Spanish and French sociolinguistics, pragmatics, foreign language pedagogy and second language acquisition. Her dissertation topic, The Construction of Humor in Spanish and French-Language Comic Strips: A Sociolinguistic Perspective, refines prior theories of humor by applying sociolinguistic and pragmatic concepts to the examination of a corpus of Spanish and French comic strips from 20 different authors.
Education
- PhD in Romance Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley, 2008
- MA in French Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley, 2001
- Advanced Certificate in Teaching Foreign Language, New York University, 1999
- Diploma of Education in Teaching French & English (Second Language), McGill University, 1993
- BA in Linguistics, Université de Montréal, 1992
Selected Courses Taught
- Graduate seminar in second language acquisition theory and pedagogy
- First and second year Spanish, University of Chicago & UC Berkeley
- First and second year French, UC Berkeley & UC Paris