Elsa Amanatidou

Candidate statement

Elsa Amanatidou was educated at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, University of East Anglia and King’s College London. She is Teaching Professor in Language Studies and Director of the Modern Greek Studies Program at Brown University. At Brown she teaches all the levels of Proficiency in the undergraduate language and culture curriculum, translation and content courses and a graduate seminar for Classicists and Archeologists. In addition to her teaching, she has served in various positions pertaining to her training in Modern Foreign Language Education: Director of the Center of Language Studies at Brown University; President of the Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning; Chair of the MGSA Undergraduate Studies Committee. Her research interests lie in Second Language Acquisition, Foreign Language Literacy and strategies for creating and delivering an integrated language and content curriculum.