Professor Christine E. Swain
Assistant Professor of Spanish

Education

• B.A. Middlebury College, Vermont
• Ph.D. Cornell University, New York

Brief Biography

Christine (Tina) Swain is an Assistant Professor of Spanish Language and Linguistics at Hope College in Holland, Michigan.  She earned a B.A. in Italian and Spanish from Middlebury College and an M.A. and Ph.D. (2003) in Romance Linguistics from Cornell University.  Her interest in Romance languages began when she was a child being raised in South America by her missionary parents. She was born in Lima, Perú and then lived in Guayaquil, Ecuador and La Paz, Bolivia until she moved to the United States for college.  Besides Spanish, she has studied French, Italian, Latin, Portuguese, and Romanian, but due to lack of practice and opportunity, she only speaks Spanish and Italian now.  Her field of study in Romance linguistics is the comparative development of the Romance languages from Latin, with special focus on the development of irregular verb forms.

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