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Less Comonly Taught Languages Committee

The Less Comonly Taught Languages Committee works to provide solutions to the unique problems that instructors in Less Commonly Taugh Languages face, from professional development opportunities to designing teaching materials and increasing the visibilty of LCTLs on campus. LCTLs are broadly defined as single-instructor languages at Northwestern, but committee membership is open to all language faculty.

Committee members

David Boyk

Member | Assistant Professor of Instruction, Urdu

Alba Girons

Member | Associate Professor of Instruction, Spanish

Peter Mwangi

Member | Assistant Professor of Instruction, Swahili

Rami Nair

Member | Associate Professor of Instruction, Hindi

Ryan C. Platte

Member | Associate Professor of Instruction, Classics

Oya Topçuoğlu

Committee Co-Chair | Associate Professor of Instruction, Turkish

Abbe Walker

Member | Assistant Professor of Instruction, Classics

Ingrid Zeller

Ex-officio | Chair, Council on Language Instruction| Professor of Instruction, German