Janet Sedlar

World Language

Ph.D. in Romance Linguistics, University of California at Berkeley
Advanced Certificate in Teaching Foreign Language, New York University
M.A. in Teaching English and French as Second Languages, McGill University
B.A., in Linguistics, Université de Montréal

Before arriving at Wolcott Janet spent 10 years directing and 6 years co-directing the Spanish language program at University of Chicago, where she taught all levels of Spanish language as well as a graduate seminar on language pedagogy. Prior to that she taught multiple levels of Spanish and French as a graduate student at Berkeley while pursuing her doctorate. Her dissertation examined the construction of humor in Spanish, Argentine and French comic strips from a sociolinguistic and pragmatic perspective. Before graduate school Janet taught Spanish and French at an independent school in New York City, and ESL to adults in Madrid, Spain. She was a contributing author to the elementary college textbook ¡Con brío! and is currently working on an advanced-level Spanish textbook. Janet is excited to enter a new phase of her career at Wolcott, where she can focus exclusively on her first love: teaching! In her free time Janet enjoys singing soul, jazz and blues and playing the flute.