Arlind Fazliu

Arlind is a Kosovar Albanian polyglot linguist and translator. He holds a bachelor’s degree in English Language and Literature from the University of Prishtina, Kosovo, and a master’s degree in Second Language Acquisition from the University of Maryland, College Park, where he was a Fulbright student. Currently, Arlind is a third-year PhD student in the Linguistics Department where he also serves as a teaching assistant. He has so far taught LING 432 Psychology of Language and LING 114 How to Learn a Foreign Language. 

His research interests are primarily in phonology and psycholinguistics. In phonology, he focuses on the influence of Classical Latin on English primary word stress. In psycholinguistics, he is interested in how conditions such as bipolar disorder and schizophrenia affect language and speech. 

Publications

In 2023 Arlind published the inaugural book in Albanian about bipolar disorder – namely, Pikëllimi i heronjve (The Heroes’ Melancholy), which discusses the history, symptoms, aetiology and treatment of the illness. 

The free web counterpart of the book can be found here: https://crregullimibipolar.com/

Translations

Proficient in Albanian, English, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Norwegian, Danish, and Latin, Arlind has translated several books into Albanian. These include Machado de Assis’s classic Brazilian novella O Alienista (1882), Nathaniel Branden’s The Six Pillars of Self-Esteem (1994), Jonathan Haidt’s The Anxious Generation (2024), and Rrëfenja të zgjedhura hispanoamerikane (Selected Spanish and Latin American Stories) (2026), an anthology of classic short fiction from Latin America and the Iberian Peninsula featuring, amongst many others, renowned authors such as Lima Barreto, Ramón del Valle-Inclán, Ramón J. Sender, Max Aub, and Machado de Assis.

Hobbies 

Outside academia, he enjoys reading classic literature and practising Brazilian jiu-jitsu. His reading activity can be found here: https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/18932900-arlind-fazliu