Dr. Joel Goldfield is Associate Professor of Modern Languages and Literatures (in French) at Fairfield University. He also served for fourteen years as the founding director of the Charles E. Culpeper Language Resource Center. In 2004-2007, he served as Chair of the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures (DMLL).

A graduate of Dartmouth College, Brandeis University and the Université Paul Valéry, Montpellier III (Ph.D., 1985), Dr. Goldfield has published numerous articles and reviews on computer-assisted language learning and methods of computer-assisted literary research. He has also published annotated hypermedia short stories from 19th-century French literature. His research into the transforming role of technology in the profession appears in "Technology Trends in Faculty Development, Preprofessional Training, and the Support of Language and Literature Departments" in the MLA/ADFL's Chairing the Foreign Language and Literature Department, Part 2 (Spring 2001). He currently teaches courses on French language/culture, French/English translation, French Commercial Culture, foreign language methodology and technology.

Dr. Goldfield directs the Dept. of Modern Languages and Literatures’ Assistant Teacher/Oral Practice Session (AT/OPS) Program for several faculty members and their student assistants, many of whom have decided on a career in teaching as a result and received Fulbright teaching assistantships. He is the academic director for the University College’s Weekend Immersion Programs (WIPs) in a variety of foreign languages offered on non-credit basis and based on the Rassias Method. Some of his research on the impact of the Rassias Method and Dartmouth Intensive Language Model on effectively raising oral proficiency levels appears in “From Study Abroad to the Rassias Method” in Breakthrough: Essays and Vignettes in Honor of John A. Rassias, ed. Mel B. Yoken (New York: Peter Lang) 2007, pp. 57-61.

Professor Goldfield devotes a significant portion of his research time at Fairfield and in workshops or program reviews for other educational institutions to faculty development involving foreign language standards, assessment, methodology and integration of technology into the language and literature curriculum. In 1997 he co-taught a New Media course for the University's Honors Program. Entitled "The Future of the Book," it presented a history of challenges faced by Western societies with the advent of new technologies and their resulting zigzag effects on civilization.

He has served as a reviewer on language and technology topics for the CALICO Journal and the Association for Computers and the Humanities, also serving as Assistant Editor for its journal from 1989-1994. He is Managing Editor of The Ram's Horn, a peer-reviewed journal on experiential language learning published by The Rassias Center at Dartmouth College. With two other colleagues, he was a co-principal investigator for the International Studies/Language Technology Initiative funded by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the Culpeper Foundation and the Archbold Charitable Trust (1999-2002). This unique project enabled both faculty and students from Modern Languages and the Social Sciences to collaborate on projects involving foreign languages across the curriculum and Geographic Information Systems (GIS). Further information can be found at http://www.faculty.fairfield.edu/jgoldfield/ISLT-Webpg0201.htm and at the GIS projects’ website. He is currently an associate principal investigator for the Critical Languages Eurasia Initiative funded by a grant from the U.S. Dept. of Education (2007-2010).