5-Question Profile of Renée Marshall, International Programs Specialist for CASLS.
 1. What is your role at CASLS? What types of projects do you usually work on?
My official title is International Programs Specialist. I help coordinate our international programs and I provide help and support on various curriculum and outreach projects.
2. What are your areas of interest/expertise?
My main interests are in second language and ESL teaching pedagogy, pragmatics, teacher education, and exploring how language, identity, power and discrimination intersect and relate to each other. I earned my B.A. in French and Spanish as well as a M.Ed and teaching credential from UC Santa Barbara. My M.Ed Inquiry was entitled: What are tests assessing? From the UO I earned my M.A. in Romance Languages. My M.A. essay was entitled: “Thin Edge of Barbed Wire”: National Identity and ‘Cultural Flexibility’ in Nina Bouraoui’s Garçon Manqué and Gloria Anzaldúa’s Borderlands/La Frontera.
3. What do you like best about working at the University of Oregon and living in Eugene?
I love that Eugene is a small town but has a lot of big town attractions. For this size of city, Eugene has a lot going on. I like that I can get the small town feel and still go out in nature, breathe fresh air, go hiking, but at the same time have access to shopping, concerts, lectures, university courses, college sports, and of course great local beer. I love that I can continue learning languages through the University with the Yamada Language Center's self study program.
4. If you could have any super power, what would it be and why?
I would like to be able to apparate, like in Harry Potter! That way I could travel all over the globe in a jiffy. Lunch in Paris? Dinner in Shanghai? Let's go!
5. What is/are your favorite quote(s)?
"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken" ~ Oscar Wilde
"The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Your task is not to seek love but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it." - Rumi
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