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Program Director

Amelia Tseng Assistant Professor CAS | World Languages and Cultures

Dr. Amelia Tseng is Assistant Professor in Spanish and Linguistics. Her research addresses how language shapes and is shaped by identity across immigrant generations in Latinx diasporic contexts, focu…

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All Faculty

Naomi Baron Prof Emerita

Naomi Baron’s research interests include language and technology, reading, first language acquisition, the relationship between speech and writing, the history and structure of English, and higher edu…

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Robin Barr Linguist-in-Residence CAS | World Languages and Cultures

Prof. Barr holds a PhD in Linguistics from Harvard with concentrations in both Indo-European and psycholinguistics. Her research on morphology involves the relationship between language learning and l…

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Ìý (202) 885-2582

George Berg Hurst Senior Professorial Lecturer CAS | World Languages and Cultures

Professor Berg has served as a faculty advisor for the Arabic Club and faculty supervisor for visiting Fulbright student teaching assistants for the past two years. His teaching and research interests…

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Ìý (202) 885-2382

Luis Cerezo Ceballos Associate Professor CAS | World Languages and Cultures

Dr. Cerezo is Associate professor of applied linguistics and Director of the Spanish language program at º£½Ç»»ÆÞ. He has been a consultant for institutions like the Fulbright Commission an…

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Ìý (202) 885-6277

Daniel Ginsberg Adjunct Professorial Lect

Daniel Ginsberg is a sociocultural linguist and semiotician specializing in the linguistic anthropology of education. Their academic interests include higher education, discourse analysis, educational…

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Alina Israeli Professor CAS | World Languages and Cultures

Professor Israeli received her PhD in Slavic Linguistics from Yale University. Prior to coming to the United States she received a BA equivalent in Russian Language and Literature from Leningrad State…

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Ìý (202) 885-2387

Tabitha Kidwell Senior Professorial Lecturer CAS | World Languages and Cultures

Tabitha Kidwell is a language teacher and teacher educator interested in innovative approaches to language teaching, language teacher education, and the development of intercultural competence. She ha…

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Ken Knight Hurst Senior Professorial Lecturer CAS | World Languages and Cultures

Interests: L2 Japanese phonology; minority languages of Japan; diaspora and language attrition; minority languages and national language policy

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Ìý (202) 885-6337

Sarah Knowles Senior Professorial Lecturer CAS | World Languages and Cultures

Sarah Young Knowles specializes in second language acquisition, language teaching methods and teacher education, and instructional design. She earned her doctorate in applied linguistics at Georgetown…

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Ìý (202) 885-2130

Rita Morandi Professorial Lecturer CAS | World Languages and Cultures

Professor Morandi research interests include language change of minority languages and more specifically language shift in Germanic speech islands and its socio-historical correlates. She finds the in…

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Ìý (202) 885-2389

Amelia Tseng Assistant Professor CAS | World Languages and Cultures

Dr. Amelia Tseng is Assistant Professor in Spanish and Linguistics. Her research addresses how language shapes and is shaped by identity across immigrant generations in Latinx diasporic contexts, focu…

Ìý tseng@american.edu

Polina Vinogradova Hurst Senior Professorial Lecturer & TESOL Program Director CAS | World Languages and Cultures

Dr. Vinogradova is interested in the use of digital technology, specifically digital stories, in language education and in postmethod pedagogy and advocacy in language teacher development. Her recent …

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Ìý (202) 885-1446