ESOL Faculty

Kimberly Spallinger, ESOL Program Director
E-mail: spallkk@bgsu.edu 
Telephone: (419) 372-8145  

Kimberly has been teaching ESOL courses at Bowling Green State University since 2004. Before this time, she taught teacher preparation and linguistics courses at Bluffton University and also had the opportunity to teach for a short time in Viet Nam. At BGSU, her primary role has been in ESOL, teaching graduate and undergraduate students in both speaking/listening and writing courses. Additionally, she occasionally teaches English 3800, an introduction to linguistics course for future English teachers, and English 5100, a TESOL Methodology Course. Kimberly enjoys working with students from different departments across campus, and one of her favorite parts of being an ESOL teacher is that she learns just as much from her students as they learn from her.

Dayna Herrington, Assistant Director
E-mail: daynalf@bgsu.edu 
Telephone: (419) 372-8228  

Dayna received her MA in French in 2000 and her MA in English (specialization in TESOL) in 2001 from Bowling Green State University.

She has taught English and French to American students at the university and community college level, and she has experience teaching English abroad in Brussels, Belgium and Wuhan, China.

She has been teaching in the ESOL Program full time since 2003.

Sheri Wells-Jensen, Associate Professor
Coordinator of the TESOL Certificate 
E-mail: swellsj@bgsu.edu 
Telephone: (419) 372-8935        

B.A., Psychology and Sociology, Adrian College; M.A., Spanish and Applied Linguistics, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale; Ph.D., Linguistics, State University of New York, University of Buffalo.

Research Interests: Psycholinguistics (especially cross-linguistic aspects of speech production and speech errors), applied phonology, phonetics, General Linguistics, braille literacy and processing, voice identification, xenolinguistics, language preservation.

Samuel Herrington, ESOL Instructor
E-mail: samuelh@bgsu.edu 
Telephone: (419) 372-8538   

Sam holds an MA in English (specialization in Teaching English as a Second Language) and an MA in French, both from BGSU.

Before becoming a full-time ESOL instructor at BGSU in 2004, he taught courses in French, Freshman Composition, and ESOL at the University of Toledo, Owens Community College, and BGSU. He also taught in the Wuhan University Summer Intensive English Program in Wuhan, China in 2005.

Angela Garner, ESOL Instructor/ Writing Center ESL Specialist
E-mail: agarner@bgsu.edu 
Telephone: (419) 372-0534

Originally from Tennessee, Angela Garner holds graduate degrees in English Literature from Southern Illinois University and TESOL/Applied Linguistics from Indiana University. She has taught composition and literature classes to American undergraduates and EFL classes in Korea, Russia, and China, yet she most enjoys her current classes in which she teaches writing and listening/speaking to BGSU international students. In addition to her teaching responsibilities at BGSU, Angela also serves as the ESOL Writing Specialist in the Learning Commons where she both consults with student writers and helps train other consultants.

Lucinda Hunter, ESOL Program Instructor 
E-mail: lhunter@bgsu.edu 
Telephone: (419) 372-0173     

Lucinda received her MA in English (specialization in TESOL) in 1999 from Bowling Green State University.  She has taught composition and ESOL courses at Bowling Green.  In addition, in the greater Philadelphia area, she taught new U.S. residents enrolled in literacy programs. She taught full time in the ESOL Program in 2002, returning to BGSU in 2007.  

Amy Cook, ESOL Program Instructor
E-mail: amycook@bgsu.edu 
Telephone: (419) 372-9398

Amy began teaching in the ESOL Program at BGSU in the fall of 2010. She is originally from Albuquerque, New Mexico, where she completed a BA in Languages and Latin American Studies. She also holds an MA in Teaching ESL from the University of Arizona, where she taught First-Year Composition classes for American and international students. One of her favorite things about teaching ESOL is meeting students from all over the world and learning about their cultures.

ESOL Graduate Assistants

Emily Hurford, ESOL Program Graduate Assistant
E-mail: hmemily@bgsu.edu 
Telephone: (419) 372-8205

Em holds an MA in English Literature from BGSU and is in her fourth year as a PhD student in BGSU's Rhetoric and Writing program. She has taught in the General Studies Writing program for four years, worked at the university's Writing Center, and is currently working in the ESOL program office and starting her dissertation research, which connects her interests in service-learning and to the role of computers in the writing classroom. 

Kellan Deardorff, ESOL Program Graduate Assistant
E-mail: kellamd@bgsu.edu
Telephone: (419) 372-8205

Kellan earned his BA in English Studies at Western Washington University and his MA in Rhetoric and Composition at Washington State University. He taught First-Year-Composition for three years prior to joining BGSU's Rhetoric & Writing PhD Program. Kellan's scholarly interests focus primarily on critical pedagogies in FYC, but branch from there into new media studies, rhetorics of racism, cultural/ethnic studies, and composition theory more generally. In his off time, he experiments with freewill as it pertains to food preparation. As an informally trained fine-dining chef, he spends time critically analyzing various cooking ingredients and recipes. For fun, Kellan thoroughly enjoys trashy reality television as well as violent movies and video games (FPS).