Marlon Kuntze

Associate Professor of Education
BA, Gallaudet University; MS, Western Oregon University; PhD, Stanford University

Dr. Kuntze’s academic focus is in language and literacy with research interests in the areas of first- and second-language acquisition and literacy development in both ASL and written English. He has published various topics ranging from literacy acquisition and language development to linguistics of ASL and bilingualism of Deaf people. Previously, he was affiliated with the teacher-training program at San Jose State University and served as a consultant for the Signs of Literacy research. He has also provided consultation on the development of ASL curriculum and ASL assessment prototypes at a variety of schools such as the Delaware School for the Deaf and Ontario Provincial Schools for the Deaf in Canada. While working on his doctorate, he was affiliated with a psycholinguistics lab led by Dan Slobin at University of California, Berkeley. Before starting his doctorate, he worked at the California School for the Deaf in Fremont, where he taught high school English for several years before assuming a specially created position to help spearhead the schoolwide effort to institute a bilingual/bicultural approach to educating the students.