Gerald (Cory) Duclos

Director of the Keck Center for Language Study; Sr. Lecturer in Linguistics

Department/Office Information

Humanities

Lawrence Hall - Keck Center

Contact

gduclos@colgate.edu (315) 228-7671

Cory Duclos is the Director of the Keck Center for Language study and has been at Colgate since 2014. He holds a Ph.D. in Spanish Literature from Vanderbilt University. His research focuses on early modern Spanish literature and comparative literary studies. He is also interested in second language acquisition pedagogy and the practical and responsible implementation of digital classroom technologies.

As the Director of the Keck Center, Cory oversees the Less-Commonly Taught Language Program and the Upstate Institute's world language program at Hamilton Central School. Cory is also the Chair of the Colgate Language Council.

Education

BA, Weber State University
MA, University of Nevada-Reno
PhD, Vanderbilt University

Publications

Duclos, G. Cory and Lester, Evelyn. "How Language Center Staff Can Support Students with Learning Disabilities in Higher Education." In Language Center Handbook 2025, A. Kraemer and E. Lavolette, eds. IALLT, 2025.

Duclos, G. Cory and Yukari Hirata. "Centers of Change: Forming Administrative Structures to Support Language Study." In Language Program Vitality in the United States: From Surviving to Thriving in Higher Education. Ed. Emily Heidrich Uebel, Felix Kronenberg, and Scott Sterling. (Forthcoming).

Martha Garcia, Vicente Pérez de León, and G. Cory Duclos, ed. Cosmic Wit: Homenaje al Profesor Edward Friedman. Newark, DE: Juan de la Cuesta, 2021.

Duclos, G. Cory. “Well-Behaved Panzas Rarely Make History: Teresa Panza and the Metafiction of Don Quijote.” In Cosmic Wit: Homenaje al Profesor Edward Friedman. Ed. Martha Garcia, Vicente Pérez de León, and G. Cory Duclos. Newark, DE: Juan de la Cuesta, 2021. 92-107.

“Scouting out Windmills: Don Quixotein Boy’s Life.” Cervantes35.1 (2015) 79-112.

“A Squire’s Schooling: The Education of Sancho Panza.” Confluencia30.3 (2015) 69-85.>

“Higher Education: Pedagogy and Disobedient Subversion in Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrewand Lope de Vega’s La dama boba.” Miríada Hispánica 4 (March 2012): 35-54.