Robin Barr, Linguist in Residence, Principles of Linguistics: Robin Barr holds a PhD in Linguistics from Harvard with concentrations in both Indo-European and psycholinguistics. Her research on morphology involves the relationship between language learning and language change, and she is always happy to hear of new irregular verbs or refinements for wug-tests. Her daughter has been one of her favorite informants, and students are likely to encounter data from her on their problem sets. Dr. Barr is also an avid amateur oboist.

Brock Brady, Director, Summer TESOL Institute, Co-Director of the American University TESOL Program, Cultural Issues in the ESL/EFL Classroom: Brock Brady teaches courses in Language Assessment, Cultural Issues in the ESL/EFL Classroom, and Curriculum and Materials Development.  His research interests include cross-cultural discourse analysis, teaching pronunciation, language assessment, and distance learning. Brady is currently a Director on the Board of TESOL, Inc, and is the association's representative to the United Nation's Non-Governmental Organization program.  A former Fulbright Scholar and former Peace Corps Volunteer, Prof. Brady has taught in Korea, Paris, France, Panama, South Africa, and several West African countries. 1993 to 1997, he managed English Teaching Programs for the State Department in Burkina Faso and Benin.

Angela Dadak, International Student Coordinator for the College Writing Program Instructor of Record, Intensive Workshop, Working with Multilingual Writers: A Multidisciplinary Perspective Angela Dadak received her BA in Russian Area Studies from Dartmouth, and then after teaching English abroad in Poland and Peru, she returned to the US and earned her MA in TESOL from the Monterey Institute of International Studies on the central coast of California. In her position as International Student Coordinator for the College Writing Program (CWP) at AU, she primarily works with students adjusting to US academic work and with the CWP faculty who have international students in their classes.

Rebecca Sachs, Adjunct Professor, Second Language Acquisition: Currently a PhD candidate in Applied Linguistics at Georgetown University, Rebecca Sachs has an MA in TESOL from Michigan State University and a BA in foreign languages and communication disorders from Boston University. Apart from teaching ESL in Michigan and at Georgetown, she has tutored and taught family literacy in Boston and Washington, DC. Her research interests include language learners' attentional processes in relation to corrective feedback, 'intelligent' vs. 'traditional' computer-assisted language instruction, relationships between learners' cognitive capacities (e.g., working memory, metalinguistic awareness) and their abilities to learn from L2 interactions (both oral and computer-mediated), methods of feedback on L2 writing, questions of research methodology (e.g., the veridicality and reactivity of introspective measures), and language testing.

Karen Taylor, TESOL Practitioner in Residence, TESOL in a Nutshell  Karen Taylor earned her M.A. in TESOL from the Monterey Institute for International Studies. She has over twelve years of experience teaching language learners and training their teachers in Namibia, Mexico, California, Maryland, Virginia, and Washington D.C.  Since joining the AU TESOL faculty as an adjunct professor in 2001, Karen's interests have come to include teaching methodology, program and curriculum design, pronunciation teaching, and the critical use of technology in language education.  Karen recently completed a 1-year Fulbright grant through which she served as a TEFL curriculum designer and teacher trainer at the Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán, in Mérida, Mexico. Her spare time is devoted to gardening and singing with her band, TakomaZone.

Jennifer Lubkin , Graduate Assistant: Jennifer earned her BA in Anthropology and Education from Washington College in Chestertown, MD and later completed a TEFL certificate in Guadalajara, Mexico. She recently finished service as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Azerbaijan where she taught English to middle-school students and opened an English language center. Jennifer is currently working toward her MA in TESOL and enjoys playing with her cats, Simon and Kira, and studying Spanish and Azeri in her free time.

Huijin Yan , Graduate Assistant: A first-year student in the MA TESOL program. Huijin earned her bachelor's degree at the Beijing International Studies University in 2003. She spent 3 years teaching English in a middle school in Beijing, sharing in every single triumph that her naughty teenage students made in their English study. Huijin really enjoys English culture and wishes to get a deeper sense of it so taht she can bring more interesting topics to her class in the future.