Grant Gearhart presented with leadership award from Foreign Language Association of Georgia
Grant Gearhart, Ph.D., associate professor of Spanish, was recently presented with the Foreign Language Association of Georgia鈥檚 Post-Secondary Leadership Award at the 2024 Southern Conference on Language Teaching, held in Atlanta, Georgia.
鈥淭his award means a lot to me because leadership is collaboration,鈥� said Gearhart. 鈥淭here are too many collaborators to thank, but I am grateful for their support and initiative.鈥�
鈥淚f you are a language teacher,鈥� he continued, 鈥減ress on and know that your work is important. If you are a parent, support language teachers and learning because it is a unique field that equips students with tremendous cognitive, communicative and professional benefits. It鈥檚 about much more than word-to-word translation or apps.鈥�
Gearhart is also the coordinator of Georgia Southern鈥檚 experiential learning for the Department of World Languages and Cultures, and host of the 鈥淲orld Languages Collaborative Podcast,鈥� which shares innovative ideas, strategies and best practices from experts in the field of language education. The podcast is an extension of the World Languages Collaborative, an annual event sponsored by the Georgia Department of Education, the Savannah-Chatham County Public School System and the Department of World Languages and Cultures.
Gearhart鈥檚 scholarship focuses on medieval and early modern culture, and he specializes in chivalry, sport, warfare and masculinity. Additionally, he presents and publishes on various topics related to language pedagogy. His work has appeared in journals such as La cor贸nica, Romance Notes, Letras Hispanas, The Journal of Popular Culture, The Language Educator and Hispanic Journal. He teaches courses related to language pedagogy, Spanish for the Professions and courses about medieval and renaissance Spain.