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Ronelle Alexander has recently
retired after 39
years on the faculty of the Department of Slavic Languages
and Literatures at
the University of California, Berkeley (UCB). Prior to
that she taught at the
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and at the
University of North
Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Her primary research
interests are South Slavic
(especially Bulgarian) dialectology, South Slavic and
Balkan folklore
(especially the recordings in the Milman Parry
Collection at Harvard), and the
sociolinguistics of standard languages vs. dialects. She
has carried out
extensive field research in rural areas of Bulgaria,
Macedonia, and
southeastern Serbia, and is the director of the digital
humanities project
Bulgarian Dialectology as Living Tradition.
Webpages:
http://works.bepress.com/ronelle_alexander
Bulgarian Dialectology as Living Tradition: bulgariandialectology.org
(with Vladimir Zhobov). Bulgarian Dialectology as Living Tradition.
2010