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Tatjana Babic Williams is a Senior Lecturer specializing in Italian at Purdue University’s College of Liberal Arts, where she teaches Italian language, culture, and literature courses across various levels. She is the Italian Coordinator and Director of the Advanced Language Sequence, actively involved in promoting student recruitment and retention efforts through advertisement outreach for the Italian Program. Her research interests encompass intercultural pedagogy, African-Italian literature, immigration, and postcolonial studies. Tatjana has collaborated intensively with Purdue’s Center for Intercultural Learning, Mentorship, Assessment, and Research (CILMAR), where she contributed to a large-scale redesign of the Italian curriculum to embed systematic intercultural learning at all levels of the program. This initiative was recognized with the AAUSC Excellence in Language Program Direction Award for Curricular Innovation in 2022. As a CILMAR Faculty Fellow, she provides leadership and mentorship through formalized training programs, including Worldview Workshops and the Purdue Intercultural Learning Community of Practice (PICLCoP). Additionally, she has organized webinars, presented at conferences, led workshops, given invited lectures, and published works focusing on intercultural learning and assessment in world languages.
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