Rate My Professor Lev Blumenfeld

Lev Blumenfeld is an Associate Professor and Graduate Supervisor in Linguistics at Carleton University's School of Linguistics and Language Studies. He earned his undergraduate degree in linguistics and classics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and his PhD from Stanford University in 2006. Following his doctoral studies, he served as a visitor at the University of California, Santa Cruz from 2006 to 2007 and has been a faculty member at Carleton University ever since. He also holds an appointment in the Department of Cognitive Science. Blumenfeld's research focuses on phonological theory and historical linguistics, particularly Micronesian and Oceanic languages such as Nauruan. He has received an SSHRC Insight Development Grant for fieldwork on the Nauruan language. His teaching portfolio includes courses such as Introduction to Linguistics, Phonology I and II, Graduate Phonology, Historical Linguistics, and Field Methods.

Blumenfeld has an extensive publication record in leading journals. Key works include "Notes on the synchronic phonology of Nauruan" and "Notes on the diachronic phonology of Nauruan" (Oceanic Linguistics, 2022), "Meter as faithfulness" (Natural Language & Linguistic Theory, 2015), "Generative metrics: an overview" (Language and Linguistics Compass, 2016), and "A formal typology of process interactions" co-authored with Eric Baković (Phonological Data and Analysis, 2024). He contributed to the Austronesian and Micronesian Comparative Dictionaries as CLDF datasets (Scientific Data, 2025) and translated "Old Church Slavic: grammar and dictionaries" (Firenze University Press, 2023). His PhD dissertation, "Constraints on phonological interactions" (Stanford, 2006), addresses core issues in phonological processes. Blumenfeld's scholarship has been cited over 478 times on Google Scholar, contributing to advancements in phonology and Micronesian linguistics.