Mandy Menke
Associate Professor of Hispanic Linguistics
University of Minnesota Twin Cities
menkem@umn.edu

In addition to leading AAUSC, the president represents the organization on the executive committee of the National Federation of Modern Language Teachers, the publisher of the Modern Language Journal.

Boris Yelin
Associate Teaching Professor of Spanish and Portuguese | Coordinator of the Portuguese Program
Northeastern University
b.yelin@northeastern.edu

The Vice-President assists the President in planning and executing AAUSC initiatives, as well as organizing the events at our annual meetings at the ACTFL conference.

Editors, Second Language Research & Practice

Jesse S. Gleason
Associate Professor of Spanish and Applied Linguistics
Southern Connecticut State University
gleasonj8@southerncnt.edu

Senta Goertler
Associate Professor of Second Language Studies and German
Michigan State University
goertler@msu.edu

Secretary
2023-2026

Kristen Michelson
Assistant Professor of French
Texas Tech University
kristen.michelson@ttu.edu

Kelle L. Marshall
Associate Professor of French Studies
French Studies Program Coordinator
International Studies and Languages Division of Seaver College
Pepperdine University
kelle.marshall@pepperdine.edu

Ayman Mohammed
Michigan State University
mohame44@msu.edu

Yi Wang
Assistant Professor, Asian and Asian American Studies
Stony Brook University
yiw.wang@stonybrook.edu

Rachel Floyd
University of Georgia
rachel.floyd@uga.edu

Jeanne Schueller
Teaching Professor of German
University of Wisconsin-Madison
jmschuel@wisc.edu

Sara Mattavelli
Assistant Professor & Program Director of Italian Studies
Chapman University
mattavelli@chapman.edu

Olga Klimova
Teaching Assistant Professor, Director of Russian Program
University of Pittsburg
vok1@pitt.edu

Section co-Heads: SPANISH
2023-2025

Claudia Sánchez Gutiérrez
Associate Professor, Director First-year Spanish
University of California, Davis
chsanchez@ucdavis.edu

Montserrat Mir
Professor of Spanish and Applied Linguistics & the Language Coordinator
Illinois State University
montserratmir@ilstu.edu

Germán Zárate-Sández
Associate Professor and Director of Introductory Spanish
Western Michigan University
german.zarate-sandez@wmich.edu

Linda Lemus
Assistant Professor of Teaching | Director of Spanish Language Instruction Program
University of California, Riverside
llemus@ucr.edu

Graduate Student Representative
2024-2026