Graduate Student, Spanish & Portuguese, UCLA Esther Claudio Moreno is a PhD student at the Spanish and Portuguese Department of UCLA. She graduated in English from Universidad de Alcala (Spain)…

Professor, English, SMC Kayli is a full-time professor in the English Department at Santa Monica College, where she has taught for the past 10 years. She received her B.A. in…

Professor & Assistant Chair, English, SMC Eleni Hioureas is an English literature and composition professor and the Assistant Chair of the English Department at Santa Monica College.  She is also the…

Lecturer, Scandinavian Section, UCLA  Aino Rinhaug has a PhD in Portuguese literature from the University of Oslo. Her broad research interests are in the area of languages and literature, as well as cultural…

Lecturer, Linguistics, UCLA Olga Ivanova is a lecturer at the Department of Linguistics, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where she teaches courses on Swahili language and socio-cultural linguistics. She…

Graduate Student, Classics, UCLA Elliott Piros is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Classics at UCLA. He is currently completing a dissertation on the Hispano-Roman poet Martial, a prolific…

Graduate Student, French and Francophone Studies, UCLA Gina Lorenz is a Ph.D. candidate in the department of French and Francophone Studies. Her dissertation project, titled “Humanizing the Clash: Cultures of…

Lecturer, Writing Programs, UCLA Carleen Curley Velez holds an M.A. in Teaching English as a Second Language and a Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics, both from UCLA.  She specializes in teaching…

Lecturer, Asian Languages and Cultures, UCLA Asako H. Takakura has taught Japanese language courses at UCLA since 2001. She has taught all the levels of language courses for elementary, intermediate,…

Professor, Asian Languages and Cultures, UCLA Her research area includes discourse-functional linguistics in Korean, and second language acquisition. She is the author/co-author of seven books including Integrated Korean (University of…