Center Staff

Elizabeth H.D. Mazzocco, Director and Professor of Italian

Ph.D. Bryn Mawr College. Professor Elizabeth H.D. Mazzocco is the founding director of the Five College Supervised Independent Language Program and the Mentored Language Program. She received her Ph.D. in 1988 and held visiting positions at the University of Pennsylvania and Mount Holyoke College before assuming the Five College position in 1990. In addition, she continues to explore ways of incorporating technology into language instruction. She has been project director for materials development grants received from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, The U.S. Department of Education, The National Security Education Program, The Fund for the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education, The Charles E. Culpeper Foundation, The Booth Ferris Foundation, The New England Colleges Fund, and The Korea Research Foundation.

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Amy Wordelman, Associate Director and Technology Coordinator

Ph.D. Princeton University. Ms. Wordelman oversees FCCSWL's everyday operations, its language programs, and its grant-funded projects and materials development work. She handles admissions, advising, and course scheduling for the Mentored Language Program, serves as advisor for visiting international language mentors, serves as technology director for FCCSWL, project manager for grant-projects, and as the project developer/webmaster for the LangMedia website. She received her Ph.D. in 1994. Prior to joining the staff of FCCSWL, she held visiting faculty positions at Oberlin College and Emory University.

Gretchen Fiordalice, Assistant Program Administrator

B.A. Smith College. Ms. Fiordalice coordinates the Supervised Independent Language Program and activities related to the international scholars hosted by FCCSWL. She also serves as a course organizer (logistics manager) for many of the language courses offered through the Mentored Language Program and assists with the everyday management of the Center.

Kyla Hakim, Developer for Advising and Information Resources and Strategies

B.A. Mount Holyoke College. During 2010-2011, Ms. Hakim will coordinate a special project aimed at assessing and expanding FCCSWL's information and advising resources for students interested in language study. She previously coordinated day to day operations for FCCSWL's CultureTalk Islamic Worlds project and has worked on a variety of Arabic materials development projects including materials for Levantine and Egyptian Arabic and comparisons among multiple forms of colloquial Arabic.

Joanna Springer, Research Assistant and Course Organizer

B.A. Hampshire College. Ms. Springer serves as a research and project development assistant for FCCSWL's current Mellon-funded projects. She has worked on various Arabic projects including materials development for upper-level Arabic students, Media Arabic, and Arabic in North Africa. She has also participated in projects for a variety of other languages and serves as the course organizer (logistics manager) for Arabic and Swahili courses offered through the Mentored Language Program.

Lydia Harrington, Materials Development Assistant

B.A. Hampshire College. Ms. Harrington joins FCCSWL in Spring 2011 to work with the newest CultureTalk project supported by a new grant from the United States Department of Education, International Research and Studies Program. She will coordinate the project workroom and international student staff working on new additions to CultureTalk from Africa, Central and South Asia, and Eastern Europe.