Staff

Meet the Language Center and Language Testing Program staff!

Faculty

Amanda Dalola

Amanda Dalola

she/her
Director
Faculty

Specialties

Sociophonetics; Sociolinguistics; Social media mining; Phonetics; Phonology; Social media in the L2 classroom; Open Educational Resource (OER) development; AI applications for L2 teaching and learning

Saena Dozier

Saena Dozier

she/her
Senior Student Engagement and Education Specialist
Instructor

Specialties

Language Pedagogy and Second Language Acquisition; Heritage Language Learning; Intercultural Communication; East Asian Cultural Studies

Kate Paesani

Kate Paesani

she/her
Professional Development Coordinator
Faculty

Specialties

applied linguistics; critical pedagogies; postsecondary language programs; language teacher cognition and identity formation

Language Center

Amanda Dalola

Amanda Dalola

she/her
Director
Faculty

Specialties

Sociophonetics; Sociolinguistics; Social media mining; Phonetics; Phonology; Social media in the L2 classroom; Open Educational Resource (OER) development; AI applications for L2 teaching and learning

Saena Dozier

Saena Dozier

she/her
Senior Student Engagement and Education Specialist
Instructor

Specialties

Language Pedagogy and Second Language Acquisition; Heritage Language Learning; Intercultural Communication; East Asian Cultural Studies

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Carter Griffith

He/Him
Research Professional

Specialties

Qualtrics, Canvas, Salesforce Marketing Cloud, Praat, Excel, MySQL, RStudio, Photoshop Elements, Drupal Enterprise, Zoom, ESL Instruction

Mel Hervonen

Mel Hervonen

they/them
Graduate Program and Curricular Coordinator

Specialties

Administration; Asana; CourseShare; Course Dog; Curricular Coordination; Graduate Program Management; Laserfiche; PeopleSoft; Slate

Kate Paesani

Kate Paesani

she/her
Professional Development Coordinator
Faculty

Specialties

applied linguistics; critical pedagogies; postsecondary language programs; language teacher cognition and identity formation

Language Testing Program