Grant Gearhart presented with leadership award from Foreign Language Association of Georgia
Grant Gearhart, Ph.D., associate professor of Spanish, was recently presented with the Foreign Language Association of Georgia’s Post-Secondary Leadership Award at the 2024 Southern Conference on Language Teaching, held in Atlanta, Georgia.
“This award means a lot to me because leadership is collaboration,” said Gearhart. “There are too many collaborators to thank, but I am grateful for their support and initiative.”
“If you are a language teacher,” he continued, “press on and know that your work is important. If you are a parent, support language teachers and learning because it is a unique field that equips students with tremendous cognitive, communicative and professional benefits. It’s about much more than word-to-word translation or apps.”
Gearhart is also the coordinator of Georgia Southern’s experiential learning for the Department of World Languages and Cultures, and host of the “World Languages Collaborative Podcast,” which shares innovative ideas, strategies and best practices from experts in the field of language education. The podcast is an extension of the World Languages Collaborative, an annual event sponsored by the Georgia Department of Education, the Savannah-Chatham County Public School System and the Department of World Languages and Cultures.
Gearhart’s scholarship focuses on medieval and early modern culture, and he specializes in chivalry, sport, warfare and masculinity. Additionally, he presents and publishes on various topics related to language pedagogy. His work has appeared in journals such as La corónica, Romance Notes, Letras Hispanas, The Journal of Popular Culture, The Language Educator and Hispanic Journal. He teaches courses related to language pedagogy, Spanish for the Professions and courses about medieval and renaissance Spain.
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