David Boe

Associate Professor
Ph.D., Linguistics
Indiana University
dboe@nmu.edu

Teaching Specialties

• Applied Linguistics
• Descriptive English Grammar
• History of The English Language

Professor Boe has been teaching at Northern Michigan University since 2001. Prior to joining the NMU faculty, he was a postdoctoral fellow in linguistics at the University of Nevada at Reno (1999-2001), and before that he was a Fulbright lecturer in linguistics at Vilnius University in Lithuania (1996-1998). He completed his Ph.D. at Indiana University in 1996, with a concentration in syntax and second language acquisition. He currently serves as the Secretary/Newsletter Editor of the North American Association for the History of the Language Sciences (NAAHoLS), and is a regular presenter at the annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA). At NMU, he serves as the Director of the Program in Liberal Arts and Sciences, and is an English Department representative on the university's Academic Senate. In his free time, he enjoys mountain biking, skiing (both downhill and cross-country), and playing the piano.