Linda Blanton

Linda Lonon Blanton spent her childhood in northern Arkansas, graduated from high school in southern California, and received her BA in English from the University of California (Santa Barbara). After two years of teaching English in Tunisia as a Peace Corps volunteer, she received her MA in Applied Linguistics from New York University. After some years teaching English at a community college in Chicago, she studied for her Ph.D. in Linguistics at the Illinois Institute of Technology.

Dr. Blanton specializes in second language writing, literacy, and sociolinguistics. Her academic and research interests have taken her to Morocco, Tunisia, Greece, Senegal, Portugal, and Spain. From 1999-2006, she served as director of the UNO Honors Program, during which time she conducted seven UNO Honors Study-Abroad Programs in Greece.

Ph.D., Illinois Institute of Technology, 1974