Hello! I am Joseph Pentangelo, a linguist and folklorist from Staten Island, N.Y. I am a postdoctoral fellow with the Macaulay Honors College and I am an adjunct assistant professor teaching courses in linguistics at the College of Staten Island.

I earned my PhD in Linguistics from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York in 2020. My dissertation, “360º Video and Language Documentation: Towards a Corpus of Kanien’kéha (Mohawk),” can be read here. Along with my doctorate, I earned an advanced certificate in Medieval Studies.

My research is interdisciplinary, braiding together strands from linguistics, literature (broadly construed), and folklore. Current interests include endangered language documentation, the role of phonesthemes in Germanic and Iroquoian word-formation, and the digital humanities. Recently, I’ve been doing a lot of work on the “long eighteenth century,” spanning roughly from 1688 to 1815. For more on my past publications and current interests, see my Research page.