

Her children's books have been translated into many languages, including different sign languages. She has worked in syntax, phonetics, phonology, morphology, historical and comparative linguistics, Romance studies, structure of American Sign Language, poetics, writing for ESL students, and mathematical and linguistic analysis of folk dance. She currently is a professor at Swarthmore College teaching Linguistics in all different forms ( music, Theater (structure), dance, Comparative Literature Studies).She has also taught linguistics at Smith College, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Georgetown University, the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, the University of Pennsylvania, Fantasy for young people, children's books, picture booksĭonna Jo Napoli (born February 28, 1948) is an American writer of children's and young adult fiction, as well as a linguist.
