Phil Goss

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Phil Goss (DOB: March 05, 1969 in Stillwater) is a television personality in Poland on TVN Lingua.

He graduated from Wabash College with a major in political science and a minor in speech rhetoric. After moving to Poland in 1991 as a volunteer with the WorldTeach program from Harvard University teaching English at a high school in Malbork ad later at the University of Gdansk teaching English and political science. Goss hosted one of the first live, bilingual radio programs in Poland at Radio ARnet, "ARnet Ameryka". He later cooperated with the Polish funk band Blenders from 1995 to 1997. Other positions at this time included working as a consultant for Ernst & Young while finishing MBA studies in Gdansk.

Goss returned to the US in 1998 and taught marketing, management, political science and speech at the University of Southern Indiana in Evansville, later moving on a doctoral program at the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University in Bloomington.

Goss returned to Poland as a Fascell Fellow at the US Embassy in Warsaw in 2002/2003. The following academic year saw Goss return to the University of Gdansk, but he decided to move to Warsaw permanently in the summer of 2004 to begin a career in media.

Phil Goss was a guest on w:Europa da się lubić and has appeared on a variety of other Polish television programs such as Kawa czy herbata and Dzień dobry TVN. In 2006 he started hosting programs and doing English-language voice overs on TVN Lingua. His programs include: "Spikerzy z licensją do nauczania", "Chatter Box", "Therapidiom", "Slanguage" i "Bobby the Snail". Goss also does voice over work for MTV Europe and VH1 Europe.

[edit] Films

  • Hindenburgh: The Untold Story, in the role of "Col. South Trimble". (2007)
  • A Griot's Story, narrator. (2007)
  • Surviving the Quake, in the role of "policeman". (2005)
  • Lech Wałęsa: Bilans dwóch dekad, translation and film narration. (2004)

[edit] Books

  • Widawski, Maciej, and Phillip Goss. The Handbook of American English Pronunciation. Gdańsk, Poland: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Gdańskiego, 1995.
  • Widawski, Maciej, and Phillip Goss, et al. Słownik Slangu i Potocznej Angielszczyzny. Gdańsk, Poland: Wydawnictwo L&L, 1997.
  • Widawski, Maciej, and Phillip Goss, et al. The Polish-American Dictionary of Slang and Colloquialisms. New York: Hippocrene, 1997.
  • Jermakowicz, Ewa, and Phillip Goss. “Earnings and Stock Returns: Evidence from the Warsaw Stock Exchange.” International Business Practices, (2000). The Academy of Business Administration, pp. 202-207.
  • Widawski, Maciej, and Phillip Goss, et al. Słownik Angielszczyzny Brytyjskiej. Warsaw: Ex Libris, 2004.
  • Widawski, Maciej, and Phillip Goss, et al. Słownik Angielszczyzny Amerykańskiej. Warsaw: Ex Libris, 2004.
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