Josh Kraut joined the Department of World Languages and Cultures faculty in 2016.  He teaches  courses in French language, literature and civilization.  He is currently at work studying and translating the contemporary French philosopher Fabrice Hadjadj.

Education 

• Ph.D., sociolinguistics, Georgetown University, 2018
• Master of Modern Letters, French literature and linguistics, Universit茅 de Provence (now Aix-Marseille Universit茅), 2011
• M.A., teaching English as a second language, Pennsylvania State University, 2005
• B.A., French, Schreyer Honors College at Pennsylvania State University, 2005

Areas of Interest

• 尝补茂肠颈迟茅
• Language learning and teaching

Honors, Grants and awards

• 鈥淭he Misanthrope In Spite of Himself: Rousseau鈥檚 Interpretation of Moli猫re鈥檚 Alceste,鈥� (article) Nyenhuis Faculty Research Grant, 快猫短视频, 2019
• 鈥淭he Polyphonic Pastor: Two Levels of Constructed Dialogue in Argumentation,鈥� (article) Nyenhuis Faculty Research Grant, 快猫短视频, 2018
• 鈥淐hallenging Borders,鈥� Great Lakes Colleges Association Grand Challenge Grant, 2016

Selected Publications

• 鈥淐onstructed Dialogue as Hermeneutic in Small Group Bible Study,鈥�  Postscripts, 2022
• 鈥淟e Misanthrope Malgr茅 Lui: Rousseau鈥檚 Vision of Alceste, 鈥� The French Review, 2021
• 鈥淭he Polyphonic Pastor: Two Levels of Constructed Dialogue in Argumentation,鈥� Language and Dialogue, 2019
• 鈥淭he Role of 鈥楻oles鈥� in Task-Design: An Exploration of 鈥楩raming鈥� as a Feature of Tasks,鈥� in Usage-inspired L2 Instruction, John Benjamins Publishing, 2018
• 鈥淚nteractional Sociolinguistics and Workplace Discourse,鈥� with C. Gordon, in Handbook of Language in the Workplace, Routledge, 2017
• French for Children, Primer A and Primer B, Classical Academic Press, 2016

Selected Presentations

• 鈥淭he Pastor in the Pew: Simulated Conversation in Contemporary American Sermons,鈥� American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) conference, 2018
• 鈥淰oices from the Past: Constructed Dialogue as a Hermeneutic Tool in Evangelical Bible Study,鈥� AAAL conference, 2017
• 鈥淵ou Shall Know the Truth: Reasons and Reasonableness in Evangelical Small Group Bible Study,鈥� American Anthropological Association (AAA) conference, 2015
• 鈥淐o-Constructing Scriptural Authority in a U.S. Quran Study Group,鈥� with N. Harb, AAA conference, 2015

Outside the college

Dr. Kraut enjoys hanging around with his five kids, reading good books with his wife (when he can keep up), and walking under the enormous beech trees in his neighborhood.