Susan Smythe Kung

Susan Smythe Kung
A photograph of Susan Smythe Kung, taken in Fairbanks Alaska in June 2016.
Nationality	American
Fields	Linguistics
Institutions	University of Texas at Austin

Susan Smythe Kung is the Manager of the Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America at the LLILAS Benson Latin American Studies and Collections at the University of Texas as Austin.^[1] Kung is a linguist who specializes in endangered language archiving and the Huehuetla Tepehua language of Hidalgo, Mexico. She earned her doctorate in linguistics in 2007 from the University of Texas at Austin, and her dissertation, A Descriptive Grammar of Huehuetla Tepehua^[2] won the Mary R. Haas Book Award from the Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas.^[3] Kung is the President of DELAMAN, the Digital Endangered Languages and Music Archiving Network from 2016-2018.

Selected publications

• Kung, Susan Smythe and Joel Sherzer. 2013. "The Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America: An Overview." Oral Tradition, 28/2 (pp. 379-388).
• Kung, Susan Smythe. 2012. "Los compadres. Cuento en Tepehua de Huehuetla [The compadres. A story in Huehuetla Tepehua.]." In Paulette Levy and David Beck (eds.), Las lenguas totonacos y tepehuas. Textos y otros materiales para su estudio [The Totonac and Tepehua languages. Texts and other materials for their study]. Mexico City: UNAM, pp. 55-77.
• Kung, Susan Smythe. 2012. "Los dos hermanos. Cuento en Tepehua de Huehuetla [The two brothers. A story in Huehuetla Tepehua.]." In Paulette Levy and David Beck (eds.), Las lenguas totonacos y tepehuas. Textos y otros materiales para su estudio [The Totonac and Tepehua languages. Texts and other materials for their study]. Mexico City: UNAM, pp. 78-96.

References

1. ↑ "AILLA: People". www.ailla.utexas.org. Retrieved 2016-06-29. 
2. ↑ Kung, Susan Smythe. A Descriptive Grammar of Huehuetla Tepehua. University of Texas at Austin dissertation. 
3. ↑ "The Mary R. Haas Book Award". 2014-03-22. Retrieved 2016-06-29.