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Office: Cobb 211

Email: dlear@uchicago.edu

Darcy Lear

Strategic Initiatives Administrator

Bio

Darcy is the Strategic Initiatives Administrator in the CLC and OLA, and administers the Academic and Professional Reading Institute (APRI). She has been at the University of Chicago since 2013, initially teaching Spanish in Romance Languages and Literatures. It was her specialty area of Languages for Specific Purposes that brought her into the Chicago Language Center’s orbit, where she participates in various innovative programs and offerings. She received her Ph.D. in Foreign and Second Language Education at the Ohio State University. Her publications have appeared in Foreign Language Annals, Global Business Languages, Hispania, and Modern Language Journal. She is the author of Integrating Career Preparation into Language Courses and co-author of Conéctate: Introductory Spanish.