CARLA Fellow Program

The CARLA Fellow Program is designed to recognize and support the outstanding contributions of graduate students at the University of Minnesota in the area of second language learning and/or teaching, and to engage graduate students in the work being done at CARLA. Each year, two University of Minnesota doctoral students are selected as CARLA Fellows. The awardees receive a $1,000 reimbursement allowance for travel to attend or present at a language-related conference and are invited to give a CARLA Presentation during the academic year.

CARLA Fellow (2023–2024)

CARLA is pleased to announce the selection of Leiry Warren as the CARLA Fellow for the 2023–2024 academic year. She is a doctoral student whose interest in foreign language learning and teaching help support CARLA's mission to "study multilingualism and multiculturalism, to develop knowledge of second language acquisition, and to advance the quality of second language teaching, learning, and assessment."

Leiry Warren is a PhD student in Hispanic Linguistics in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies. Her research interests include second language acquisition, oral fluency in assessments, sociocultural theory, metacognition in language learning, the use of scenarios (Di Pietro, 1994), and language policy. She earned a degree in Basic Education with emphasis in Humanities and Languages (Spanish, English, and French) from the Universidad Libre, Bogota, Colombia, graduating with honors. She later pursued an MA in Spanish as a Foreign Language Teaching at the Universidad de Navarra in Pamplona, Spain, where she was the recipient of the university's Excellence Scholarship. She obtained another MA in Hispanic Linguistics from the University of Minnesota where she currently teaches undergraduate Spanish courses. Her involvement with CARLA includes two presentations in the Teaching Roundtable: Ideas Inspired by the CARLA Summer Institutes in 2023 and 2022. These presentations were based on two CARLA Summer Institute Scholarship awards that enabled Leirty to enroll in the courses Foreign Language Literacies: Using Target Language Texts to Improve Communication, and Language & Culture in Sync: Teaching Linguistic Politeness and Intercultural Awareness.

CARLA Fellows (1996–Present)

2023–2024:
Leiry Warren (Hispanic Linguistics/PhD)

2022–2023:
Darren LaScotte (Second Languages and Cultures Education/PhD) 
Marie Mangold (Hispanic Linguistics/PhD)

2020–2021:
Vivian H. Franco Díaz (Hispanic Linguistics/PhD)
Amanda Swearingen (Second Languages and Cultures Education/PhD) 

2019–2020:
Leah Shepard-Carey (Second Languages and Cultures Education/PhD) 
Lauren Truman (Hispanic Linguistics/PhD)

2018–2019:
Mónica de la Fuente Iglesias (Hispanic Linguistics/PhD)
Russell Simonsen (Hispanic Linguistics/PhD)

2017–2018:
Yi-Ju Lai (Second Languages and Cultures Education/PhD) 
Corinne Mathieu (Second Languages and Cultures Education/PhD. 

2016–2017:
Jenna Cushing-Leubner (Second Languages and Cultures Education/PhD) 
Mel Engman (Second Languages and Cultures Education/PhD) 
Jenifer Vanek (Second Languages and Cultures Education/PhD) 

2014–2015:
LeeAnne Godfrey (Second Languages and Cultures Education/PhD) 
Beth Dillard (Second Languages and Cultures Education/PhD) 

2013–2014:
Fang (Andie) Wang (Second Languages and Cultures Education/PhD) 
Amy Young (Second Languages and Cultures Education/PhD) 

2012–2013:
Angela George (Hispanic Linguistics/PhD)

2011–2012:
Angela Pinilla-Herrera (Hispanic Linguistics/PhD)

2010–2011:
Sachiko Horii (Second Languages and Cultures Education/PhD)

2009–2010:
Giang Thùy Pham (Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences/PhD)

2008–2009:
Mandy Menke (Hispanic Linguistics/PhD)

2007–2008:
Pam Wesely (Second Languages and Cultures Education/PhD)

2006–2007:
Karla Stone (Second Languages and Cultures Education/PhD)

2005–2006:
Laurent Cammarata (Second Languages and Cultures Education/PhD)

2004–2005:
Anne Dahlman (Second Languages and Cultures Education/PhD)

2003–2004:
Lisa McCowen (Hispanic Linguistics/PhD)

2002–2003:
Karen Jorgensen (Second Languages and Cultures Education/PhD)
Paul Magnuson (Second Languages and Cultures Education/PhD)

2001–2002:
Mike Anderson (Second Languages and Cultures Education/PhD)
Jenny Yi-chun Kuo (Linguistics/PhD)

2000–2001:
J. Cesar Felix-Brasdefer (Hispanic Linguistics/PhD)
Tara Fortune (Second Languages and Cultures Education/PhD)

1999–2000:
Patsy Vinogradov (ESL/MA)
Bonnie Swierzbin (Linguistics/PhD)

1998–1999:
Karin Goettsch (ESL/MA)
Francine Klein (Second Languages and Cultures Education/PhD)
John Skinner (ESL/MA)

1997–1998:
Andreas Schramm (Linguistics/PhD)
Nima Salehi (ESL/MA)

1996–1997:
Karen Lybeck (Linguistics/ PhD)
Patricia Mougel (Second Languages and Cultures Education/PhD)