Born and raised in France, Chery is a French instructor, a doctoral candidate, and the assistant to the French language and culture in Lyon global education summer program at ASU. She enjoys teaching and learning from her students.

Johannson exclusively works with the ASU Online program, teaching both intermediate and beginner French courses.

PhD student Hale teaches SILC’s undergraduate Introduction to Linguistic course. His degree program is in ILC (Linguistics), focusing on phonology and second language pedagogy.

Alavi started her career at ASU in 2009. She currently teaches various courses, such as Fre 101, Fre 102, Fre 201, Fre 202, and Fre 311 at ASU.

McHale holds an master's in French Literature and teaches beginner- and intermediate-level French courses. She has lived and worked in francophone Europe.

Joslin's interdisciplinary research on African literature and film combine aesthetic theories of representation and socio-cultural interpretations of texts in order to reimagine global discourses within a humanistic framework.

Her interests in linguistics include phonology acquisition and early childhood language acquisition.