Dianna Murphy
Position title: Director, Language Institute and Associate Director, Russian Flagship Program, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Email: diannamurphy@wisc.edu
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Dianna Murphy (PhD, Slavic Linguistics, Ohio State University) is co-director of the Wisconsin Language Roadmap Initiative and co-chair of the Wisconsin Language Summit. Murphy is director of the Language Institute, founding associate director of the Russian Flagship Program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and a core member of the UW-Madison Doctoral Program in Second Language Acquisition. She is also co-associate director of the new Flagship Culture Initiative at the University of Maryland.
Murphy’s recent research includes the 2016 co-edited volume (with Karen Evans-Romaine), Exploring the Language Flagship Program: Professional Competence in a Second Langauge by Graduation (Multilingual Matters), and the 2014 co-authored Modern Language Journal monograph (with Sally Magnan and Narek Sahakyan), Goals of Collegiate Learners and the Standards for Foreign Language Learning, based on a survey of over 16,000 U.S. postsecondary foreign language students. Publications in 2018 include a contribution to the forthcoming Slavica publication, The Art of Teaching Russian, and a report for the summer 2018 ADFL Bulletin, “The Gender and Race/Ethnicity of U.S. Undergraduate Majors in Languages and Literatures Other than English, 2010-14.”