Two WLL Faculty Members Granted Professional Development Leaves
Two WLL colleagues, Amber Navarre of the Chinese language program and Anna Zielinska-Elliott of the Japanese language program, have both been awarded Professional Development Leaves for next year.
Zielinska-Elliott will make use of the leave to establish learning outcomes for a proposed interdepartmental MA in Translation and to conduct site visits to peer programs. If approved, the program will begin accepting students in the fall of 2019 and Zielinska-Elliott will serve as its inaugural Director. Anna is a senior lecturer in Japanese and also a prolific literary translator, having published twenty books in translation from Japanese to her native Polish.
Amber Navarre will use the semester leave to complete a book for Routledge on technology-enhanced teaching in the Chinese-language classroom. While completing the book, Navarre will also continue her work creating videos for flipped learning, and on a federally funded STARTALK grant to support training of Korean instructors, which she obtained in cooperation with the Head of WLL’s Korean program, Jungsoo Kim. Amber is a senior lecturer in Chinese and recent recipient of both the Gerald and Deanne Gitner Family Award for Innovative Teaching with Technology and the Blackboard Exemplary Course Program Award.
Please join us in congratulating Anna and Amber!