Core Faculty
The program's Core Faculty serve as the primary advisors for Certificate. If you are interested in applying to the program, your first step is to meet with a Core Faculty member to discuss your interest in the program. In general, it is best to choose an advisor with expertise in the language you want to teach, but you are free to work with any Core Faculty member who agrees to be your advisor.
| Name | Title | Languages other than English | Department |
|---|---|---|---|
| Angélica Amezcua | Assistant Professor | Spanish | Spanish & Portuguese |
| Nancy Bou Ayash | Associate Professor | Arabic, French | English |
| Bojan Belic | Teaching Professor | Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin, Serbian, Old Church Slavonic, Russian, Polish | Slavic |
| Klaus Brandl | Professor | German, (some Spanish, French) | German |
| Sea Hee Choi | Assistant Teaching Professor | Korean | Asian Languages & Literature |
| Dafney Blanca Dabach | Associate Professor | College of Education | |
| Ana Fernandez Dobao | Professor | Spanish, Galician, French | Spanish & Portuguese |
| Katarzyna A. Dziwirek | Professor | Polish | Slavic |
| Hussein Elkhafaifi | Associate Professor | Arabic | MELC |
| Zev Handel | Professor, Department Chair | Chinese (Mandarin) | Asian Languages & Literature |
| Julia Herschensohn | Professor Emerita | French | Linguistics |
| Betina Hsieh | Professor | French, w/ familiarity in Mandarin & Korean language learning | Education |
| Chan Lu | Associate Professor | Chinese (Mandarin) | Asian Languages & Literature |
| Talant Mawkanuli | Teaching Professor | Kazak, Uygur, Chinese (Mandarin), Uzbek, Kirgiz, Noghay, Tuvan, Turkish, Tatar, Chaghatay | MELC |
| Xi Ma | Assistant Teaching Professor | Chinese (Mandarin) | Asian Languages & Literature |
| Cristina Sánchez-Martín | Assistant Professor | English | |
| Suhanthie Motha | Associate Professor | French, some German, some Tamil (spoken), some Singhalese (spoken) | English |
| Amy Snyder Ohta | Professor | Japanese, learning Korean | Asian Languages & Literature |
| Priti Sandhu | Associate Professor | English and Hindi (written and spoken) Urdu and Punjabi (spoken) | English |
| Sandra Silberstein | Professor Emerita | English | |
| Maya Smith | Associate Professor, Associate Dean | Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, some Romanian, some Catalan, some Wolof, some Latin (written) | French and Italian Studies |
| Manka Varghese | Professor | Italian, Malayalam, and comprehension/reading mid proficiency in French and Spanish | Education |
| Richard Wright | Professor, Department Chair | French, Italian, Swahili (written and spoken), Mandarin (spoken) | Linguistics |