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Experience

Content Creation/ Editing/Proofreading/Localization (Freelance)

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Speak (USA), September 2023 - ongoing

  • Proofreading and localizing German learning content for language app

Education First (EF), May 2022  - July 2022, February 2023 - August 2023

  • Creating, adapting, and editing German learning content (CEFR A1-C1 levels)

Babbel (Germany), January 2022 – present

  • Creating and editing German and English (B2B) language course materials

Mango Languages (USA), June 2021- December 2021

  • Creating, translating, and editing German language course materials

Assistant/Associate Professor of Spanish, Shepherd University

August 2009 – December 2021

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  • Designing, developing, and delivering training content and curricula for a wide range of courses for Spanish B.A. students at all levels of language learning

  • Heading projects crucial to program development (e.g., data on assessment testing of language learners)

  • Mentoring of students (majors/minors)

  • Grading, editing, proofreading a variety of texts (e.g., student essays and papers, professional publications, and presentations) in both English and Spanish

  • Outreach to community and prospective students

  • Co-hosting workshops on the application process for liberal arts institutions (with Dr. R. LaBrozzi)

  • Active with research projects (qualitative/quantitative data analysis) on language attitudes and perceptions. Attendance of professional conferences, co-editing of two volumes on language attitudes and perceptions

 

Graduate Scholar, Pennsylvania State University

August 2003 – August 2009

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  • Design and delivery of training content for Spanish courses

  • Studies of linguistics with a focus on Sociolinguistics (focus on the interaction of language and socioeconomic and ethnic differences)

  • Course work in phonetics, phonology, syntax, and semantics 

 

Organizer, Intensive English Course, Pennsylvania State University

June 2003-July 2003

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  • Organized and guided the stay of Japanese participants in an Intensive English Course at the university

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Language Trainer - Inlingua Language School, Atlanta, GA

January 1999 – January 2002

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  • Language trainer for German and English to international business clients

 

Language Evaluator - Alta Language Services, Atlanta, GA

October 1998 – January 2002

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  • Language evaluator (German) for flight attendants

 

Education
Skills

  • Designing, developing and delivering training content

  • Curriculum management

  • Localization

  • Project management

  • Organizing assessment testing

  • Formal/academic writing and editing (APA, MLA styles)

  • Research design

  • Sociolinguistic & ethnographic research

  • Online Teaching certifications (Shepherd University & Quality Matters)

  • Public speaking

  • Mentoring

  • Translations

  • Excel, Word, Outlook, Teams, SPSS, Zoom, Airtable 360, Google Suite, Sheets, Slack, Lokalise, and more

Languages

  • German (native language)

  • Spanish  (native language)

  • English   (fluent)

  • French    (working proficiency)

Affiliations

  • American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese

  • Linguistic Society of America

  • Modern Language Association

Awards

  • Storer College Faculty Award Winner, Shepherd University, 2019 – For the incorporation of diversity, social justice into classroom, research, scholarship, and work with students.

Ph.D., Hispanic Linguistics (minor: Linguistics), The Pennsylvania State University, 2009

M.A., Hispanic Linguistics, The Pennsylvania State University, 2005

M.A., History (minors: American Literature and Politics), Ruhr-Universität Bochum (Germany),1997

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