Professor of Humanities. University of Houston-Downtown (UHD).
August 1990 to May 2009: Assistant/Associate Professor of Humanities. UHD. Instruction in Critical Thinking, Foundations of Western Culture, Second Language Acquisition, and French; research; departmental and university service.
July 1989 to June 1990: Lecturer, Department of French, University of California, Los Angeles. Duties included teaching undergraduate courses in French language, theory and correction of diction, and French linguistics; supervision of teaching assistants.
August 1988 to July 1989: Visiting Instructor, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures. The Catholic University of America. Undergraduate courses in French language, graduate courses in teaching methodology and theories of language acquisition; coordinating the language teaching and testing programs in French, Spanish, German and Italian, supervising Teaching Assistants.
August 1985 to May 1988: Teaching Assistant in French and French Coordinator, PLATO Computer Laboratory. University of Illinois.
August 1983 to May 1985: Instructor in French. Sandia Preparatory School. Albuquerque, NM.
June 1983 to July 1983: Teaching Assistant in French. The French Summer School of Taos. Taos, NM.
August 1981 to May 1982: Assistant d'anglais. Lycée Rabelais. Meudon, France.
Second language acquisition: an evolutionary linguistics approach. (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, October 2008).
Hagen replies to Hirschfeld. Journal of Evolutionary Psychology 6,1 (2008), 186-189.
The bilingual brain: human evolution and second language acquisition. Journal of Evolutionary Psychology 6,1 (2008), 43-63.
Are the Textbook Wars over? Skeptic 13, 4 (2008).
The death of philosophy. Skeptic 11,4 (2005), 18-21.
The Texas Textbook Wars (with Lisa Morano), Skeptic 11, 1 (2004), 18-20.
Strange fish: the scientifiction of Charles Berlitz 1913-2003. Skeptic 11, 1 (2004), 12-17.
Creationism's expanding universe: linguistics may be the fundamentalists' back door into the public education system. Skeptic 10, 3 (2003), 64-69.
French follies: a 9/11 conspiracy theory turns out to be an appalling deception. Skeptic 9, 4 (2002): 8-14.
Pseudoscience at 30,000 feet: suggestology, suggestopedia, and accelerated language learning. Skeptic, 9, 3 (2002), 28-35.
A union function for agreement in complex coordinate structures (with Michelle Moosally), Proceedings of the 20th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press, 2002), 428-441.
Unification-based parsing applications for intelligent foreign language tutoring systems. CALICO Journal 12, 2/3 (1995), 5-31.
Constructs and measurement in parameter models of second language acquisition. Chapter 4 in A. Cohen, S. Gass & E. Tarone (Eds.), Research methodology in second language acquisition (Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1994), 61-87.
Teaching French cleft constructions to non-native speakers: what syntactic theory has to say. (with Jean DeWitt). La revue canadienne des langues vivantes 49, 3 (1993), 550-566.
Reasonably intelligent tutoring systems for higher order language skills. In F. Attia et. al., eds., EXPERSYS-92: artificial intelligence and expert systems applications. (Gournay sur Marne: Institut Industriel de Transfert de Technologie, 1992), 53-58.
Logic, linguistics, and proficiency testing. ADFL Bulletin (Winter 1990), 46-51.
Story telling giant 1532-1548: Rabelais and the rise of the new skepticism. The 19th Annual International Conference in Literature, Visual Arts and Cinema, Atlanta, GA. 22-24 October 2004.
The evolutionary foundations of adult second language acquisition. Paper presented at the American Association of Applied Linguistics 2007 Annual Conference, Costa Mesa, California, April 21 to Tuesday, April 24, 2007.
A union function for agreement in complex coordinate structures (with M. Moosally). Paper presented at the West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics. University of Southern California. February 23-25, 2001.
Interactive multimedia for commercial Spanish. Paper presented at CALICO 15th Annual Symposium "New Directions--New Perspectives." San Diego, California. July 6-10, 1998.
Machine-based writing assessment for virtual classrooms. Paper presented at the Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium Annual Symposium. University of New Mexico. Albuquerque, May 27- June 1, 1996.
Computer-aided language instruction and parsing software for foreign languages. Colloquium presented at Kent State University. Kent, OH. February 9, 1995.
HANOI parsing and new vistas for intelligent tutoring systems and second languages. A paper presented at the parasession on the Evolving Design of CALL, 9th International Conference on Pragmatics and Language Learning in Urbana. March 2, 1995.
Unification-based natural language processing applications for second language tutorials. A paper presented at the Computers in Applied Linguistics Conference. Iowa State University, July 9-13, 1994.
Expert and intelligent tutoring systems for foreign languages. A paper presented at the 43rd Annual Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference. Clemson University, October 7-9, 1993.
Reasonably intelligent tutoring systems for higher order language skills. A paper presented at EXPERSYS-92: International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems Applications. Houston, Texas, October 1-2, 1992.
Formal properties of natural languages. A paper presented to the Association for Computing Machinery. Houston Engineering and Scientific Society. Houston, Texas. September 9, 1992.
Intelligent tutoring systems in education: development, evaluation and assessment. A paper coauthored with and presented by S. Hashemi, at the Ninth International Conference on Technology and Education. Paris, France, March 16-20, 1992.
Using computers for data collection and analysis in foreign language pedagogy. A paper presented at the 41st Annual Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference at East Carolina University. October 17-19, 1991.
Bridging theory and practice in the foreign language classroom. A paper coauthored with and presented by Jean DeWitt, at the Bridging Theory and Practice in the Language Classroom Conference at Loyola College, Baltimore, MD, October 18-20, 1991.
Constructs and measurement in parameter-based models of second language acquisition. A paper presented at the Theory Construction and Methodology in Second Language Research Conference at Michigan State University, October 4-6, 1991.
Computer tutorials in foreign languages. Department of French and Italian Foreign Language Series. Stanford University, February 14, 1990.
Communicative competence and proficiency reconsidered. A paper presented at the Winter Statewide Foreign Language Conference of the Illinois Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages. Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy. Aurora, Il.., February 6, 1988.
Foreign language teaching methodologies, practices and testing strategies at the University of Illinois. Second Language Acquisition and Teacher Education Forum. University of Illinois, October 22, 1986.
