| back to faculty |
Paul Laplante, Lecturer, Spanish and Italian
|
Paul Laplante was born and brought up in a bilingual (French and English) home in Rhode Island,
where he did his undergraduate (Providence College - B.A.magna cum laude - 1966) and graduate
studies (Brown University - M.A. in German - 1969 ). At Brown, his fields of specialization were
medieval German studies and Slavic linguistics. He also studied for two years (1968-1969) at the
Christian Albrect University in Kiel, Germany, where he specialized in German, as well as Norwegian
language and literature.
He has been at Northeastern since 1971, where he has over the years taught language courses in German,
Spanish, French, Russian and Italian. For thirty years he has found the collegiality of the Modern Language
Department and the enthusiasm of his students both very enriching and rewarding.
He is a constant student of languages himself. He is fluent in Welsh, and has studied over a dozen other
languages. He has also been employed since 1987 at Schoenhof's Foreign Books in Harvard Square,
the largest foreign language bookstore in the United States, where he is a resource person, doing
research for the company's massive classification project of the over 800 languages in their
inventory materials. Feel free to contact Paul Laplante either via e-mail or through his office at 433 Meserve Hall, 617.373.4323. |
