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Eva Dessein is a Senior Lecturer at MIT Global Languages, where she leads the French language program. She has taught French language, literature, and culture across various levels of the undergraduate curriculum. Before joining MIT, she taught at Middlebury College, the University of Texas at Austin, Williams College, and Vanderbilt University. Her scholarly work engages broadly with questions related to language identity, intercultural competency, and language learning in immersion settings. She explores the intersections of language learning, intercultural education, and study abroad. Her current research analyzes the role of digital humanities in intercultural education and the impact of machine translation technologies on cross-linguistic communication. Dessein regularly presents at national and international conferences, and her scholarship in the field of second-language studies has appeared in peer-reviewed journals, including the L2 Journal and French Review.