Associate Professor
Office Location: HE 415
Phone Number: (262) 472-5062
Email Address: lenchom@uww.edu

Degrees:                                                                                                                                                                                             B.A. and M.A., University of Central Oklahoma                                                                                                                                   Ph.D., 1991 University of Wisconsin-Madison

Areas of Teaching:                                                                                                                                                                           Linguistics, Composition, World of Ideas

Courses Taught:                                                                                                                                                                               Freshman English, Intro to Language Study, Modern Grammatical Theory, Topics in Linguistics, History of English, World of Ideas

Select Publications:                                                                                                                                                                          "(Im)politeness in an American and Slovak Context: Constructing Identities and Calibrating to them in the Course of Simple Conversations," in Topics in Linguistics 1. (October 2007): 8-12.                                                                                                 "What's happening here and why you should take my word for it: A microethnographic study of the language of student course evaluations composed in and out of the course," in Proceedings of the 1st Nitra Conference on Discourse Studies; International Conference (Nitra, Slovak Republic: University of Constantine the Philosopher, March 20, 2006): 85-96.                                         "Where assessment and learning meet" (with co-authors Stephan Friedman and Michael Longrie). Assessment Update. Hobokon, NJ: Wiley and Sons, Inc. Forthcoming.