Marc Cadd is Associate Professor of German and Interim Director of World Languages and Cultures.

 He received a B.A. from the University of MO-Columbia and an M.A. from the University of Houston, both in German. He received a Ph.D. in German, completing the SLATE (Second Language Acquisition and Teacher Education) program at the University of IL-Urbana/Champaign.

He has been at Drake since 2005. Dr. Cadd teaches the Language Learning Strategies course, as well as courses such as Intercultural Communication and U.S. Pluralism. His research interests include integrating Web. 2.0 tools into language learning and teaching, and using and assessing electronic portfolios.

Contact Marc Cadd or by phone: 515-781-3923.

You can also reach him in his office, 214A Meredith Hall.

He is a certified Spanish Oral Proficiency Interview (OPI) tester by the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL). He has taught Spanish language in Iowa at the college and elementary school level for over twenty years.  His research interests and publications are in the areas of learner differences and motivation, Spanish language proficiency assessment, Spanish language acquisition, and Latin American cultural studies in computer-assisted language learning environments. 

Professor García-Villada is a staunch advocate for study abroad experiences and has traveled in Latin America, Europe, and Japan.  His other interests include multilingual poetry and bookmaking.

Contact Eduardo Garcia or in his office 217 Meredith Hall

Jan Marston is the Director of Development of World Languages and Cultures at Drake, and Associate Professor of French. "For the last several years the focus of my research and practice has been the student experience outside the classroom, and how to help people learn language more effectively. I came to Drake because I was very excited about the opportunity to do frontline work in language acquisition.”

Jan received her Bachelors from the University of Oregon in 1965 in Romance Languages and Literature.  She has an MA in French Language and Literature The University of Texas at Austin 1970.  In 1980, she received her Ph.D. from The University of Texas at Austin in Medieval French Languages and Literatures.

Sofía Paredes is an Instructor of Spanish.  She has taught Spanish at the University level for several years. 

She will receive her Ph. D. in Spanish Linguistics from the University of California Davis in December and received her M.A. in Latin American Literature and Cultural Studies from the Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar in Quito, Ecuador.

Contact Sofía Paredes

Chinatsu Sazawa is an Assistant Professor of Japanese at Drake where she teaches Japanese courses of all levels.  She has taught Japanese at several institutions in Japan and in the United States including Middlebury College and PII (Princeton in Ishikawa).  Currently, she is also teaching language teaching methods and world language cultural immersion courses.

She received her MA in Japanese pedagogy and Ph.D. in Language, Literacy and Culture, from the University of Iowa.  While a doctoral student, she studied ESL/EFL theory and pedagogy at Fresno Pacific University as a visiting scholar.

Contact Chinatsu Sazawa

Clayton Mitchell is the Director of the Jane Evans Language Center.  Clayton helps students in their language learning by showing them how recent technologies can aid them in their explorations of language. 

Contact Clayton Mitchell

Program Assistant of World Languages and Cultures, Christen assists prospective and current students with application, registration, and enrollment in language courses. 

Christen received her BA from Drake University in 2008. 

Contact Christen Bain

You can also reach her by phone at 515-271-2511.