Faculty Biography
Laura Freedgood

Title: Assistant Professor

Education:

Master of Arts in Teaching English, Harvard University Graduate School of Education, Cambridge, MA. 1973
Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics, Boston University, Boston, MA. January 2002
    Dissertation: The Pragmatic Power of Interpreters in Trial Testimony
    Areas of specialization: Discourse Analysis, Pragmatics, and Literary Linguistics

• Freedgood, L. The pragmatic power of interpreters in trial testimony. In J. Gibbons et al. (Ed), Language in the Law. Orient Longman:  2004.

• Freedgood, L. Dissertation recommendations for interpretation incorporated into Standards for Delivering Interpreting Services in the New Jersey Judiciary, March 2004, by NJ Judicial Council.

• Freedgood, L. (May 2001). Voicing the evidence: The pragmatic power of interpreter in trial testimony.  Unpublished doctoral dissertation, Boston University, Boston, MA.

• Freedgood, L.. (July/Aug. 2000). Making the right interpretation. American Language Review 18-19.

• Freedgood, L and Fraser, B. (1998). Interpreter alterations to pragmatic features in trial testimony. Paper presented at the American Association of Applied Linguistics, Stamford, CT (ERIC DOCUMENT No. ED. 43 51 72).

• Freedgood, L. (1997). Second language acquisition and aviation communication: A study of Chinese Mandarin speakers’ question intonation and its implications for air/ground communication. In P. Quigly and P. McElwain (Eds.), Proceedings of the 1997 Aviation Symposium: A multi-cultural forum. Prescott, Arizona: Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Press.

Poetry

• Freedgood, L. (2004). October Death. Sensations Magazine Seagurt, NJ.

• Freedgood, L. (2002). Disclosure. Chapbook. (fall 2002)

• Freedgood, L. (2001). For our Mutt. Smorgasbards II. Cronin Communications

• Freedgood, L. (1987). Country Time. California State Poetry Quarterly, 14 (2), 36.

• Freedgood, L. (1977). For Jonathan. Island, (1), 24.

• Freedgood, L. (1971). In Mecklenburger, J., and Simmons, G. (Eds.). Since feeling is first. Glenview, Illinois: Scott, Foresman and Company.

• Freedgood, L.  (1970). On a certain Chicago billboard. Albatross, (1), 11.

Grants

• PSC CUNY35 RESEARCH GRANT, 2004-2005 for "The Poet as Confessor and Observer: Manuscript for a New Chapbook of Poems"

Personal Interests:

• Dancing, dancing, dancing! (swing, lindy, jazz, ballroom)
• Speaking French and Italian
• Theater
• Classical and jazz music
• Contemporary poetry and contemporary fiction
• Foreign films
• European travel, particularly to Italy and France
• Architecture 1700-1900
• (And much more!)