Joseph Pentangelo

Joseph Pentangelo

Joseph Pentangelo
Postdoctoral Fellow at the TLC

Macaulay Honors College
Joseph.Pentangelo@mhc.cuny.edu
Campuses: Brooklyn, CSI, John Jay, & Central
Website: https://jpentangelo.commons.gc.cuny.edu/

Joseph Pentangelo is a linguist and folklorist. He earned a PhD in Linguistics and a graduate certificate in Medieval Studies from the Graduate Center, CUNY. In his dissertation, he introduced the 360º camera as a tool for language documentation, creating a virtual reality corpus of the Kanien’kéha (Mohawk) language. Research interests include documentary linguistics, historical linguistics, folklore, and witchcraft. He is a graduate of the Macaulay Honors College at the College of Staten Island.

ARTICLES AND ACADEMIC WORK

“Burning Feathers: A Hint at Hysteria in a Connecticut Witchcraft Case,” Folklore Volume 132, March 2021, Issue 1.
“Kanien’kéha (Mohawk) (United States and Canada) – Language Snapshot,” Language Documentation & Description Volume 19, December 2020.

“360º Video and Language Documentation: Towards a Corpus of Kanien’kéha (Mohawk),” PhD Dissertation, The Graduate Center, CUNY, September 2020.

“A Grove of Folk Art on Staten Island: Documenting the Carvings of W. Dixon,” Voices: The Journal of New York Folklore Volume 46, Spring–Summer 2020, Issue 1–2.

“Phonesthetics and the Etymologies of Blood and Bone,” English Language & Linguistics [Online: March 2020]

“Grizzel Greedigut: A Name ‘No Mortall Could Invent’,” Names Volume 67, June 2019, Issue 2.

“William Fishbough Revealed as Author of ‘The Planchette Mystery’,” Notes & Queries Volume 63, June 2016, Issue 2.

“The Grant, the Hare, and the Survival of a Medieval Folk Belief,” Folklore Volume 130, 2019 Issue 1.