Emily Heidrich Uebel
- (She/Her)
- heidric6@msu.edu
- 517-355-8375
- Wells B205 & B430
- Academic Specialist
- Center for Language Teaching Advancement
Biography
Emily Heidrich Uebel (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison) is the Associate Executive Director of the National Less Commonly Taught Languages (LCTL) Resource Center and Academic Specialist in the Center for Language Teaching Advancement. In August 2025, she also assumed the duties of the LCTL Coordinator, FLTA Supervisor, and BTAA CourseShare Coordinator in the Department of Linguistics, Languages, and Cultures.
From 2016-2025, she was the Grant/Project Manager for the LCTL and Indigenous Languages Partnership, an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant project focused on improving instruction in less commonly taught languages.
She was the lead co-editor of two volumes on language enrollment topics and sharing LCTLs across institutions. Her work on a variety of topics, including language proficiency and technology, has been published in several journals and edited volumes. Her research interests include proficiency in languages, educational technology and online instruction, curriculum design, and education abroad topics. Emily loves to spend her time outside the office doing crafts, playing board games, drinking tea, doing DIY projects, traveling, and enjoying time with her family.
Works
A full list of presentations and publications can be found on Emily’s CV on her personal website.
Selected Publications:
- Heidrich Uebel, E., Kraemer, A. & Giupponi, L. (Eds.). (2023). Sharing LCTLs in Higher Education: Collaboration and Innovation. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003349631
- Heidrich Uebel, E., Kronenberg, F. & Sterling, S. (Eds.). (2023). Language Program Vitality in the United States – From Surviving to Thriving in Higher Education. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-43654-3
- Van Gorp, K., Heidrich Uebel, E., Kronenberg, F., & Murphy, D. (2024). How Important Is Studying Languages for Undergraduate Students and Why (Not) Study Languages? Foreign Language Annals. http://doi.org/10.1111/flan.12783
- Winner of the Stephen A. Freeman Award, which recognizes “the best published article on teaching techniques to have appeared in a professional journal during the preceding year”
- Nominated for the ACTFL/NFMLTA/MLJ Paul Pimsleur Award for Research in World Language Education. An annual award in the ACTFL awards program, the Pimsleur Award recipient(s) shall be the author(s) of an outstanding contribution to research in world language or second language education, published in the previous calendar year.
College of Arts & Letters News
- MSU Faculty Honored with Stephen A. Freeman Award for Best Published ArticleCollege of Arts & Letters
April 10, 2025A team of scholars from Michigan State University and the University of Wisconsin–Madison are being recognized for writing the most impactful article on teaching techniques published by a professional journal in 2024. For their outstanding efforts, they have received the 2025 […] Read Now →
- National Resource Center for Less Commonly Taught Languages to Open at MSUCollege of Arts & Letters
August 9, 2022Michigan State University’s Center for Language Teaching Advancement (CeLTA), housed in the College of Arts & Letters, was awarded a U.S. Department of Education grant to create a national language resource center that will enhance and support the teaching of less commonly […] Read Now →
- Less Commonly Taught and Indigenous Languages the Focus of $2.5 Million GrantCollege of Arts & Letters
July 22, 2019Currently, MSU offers instruction in 29 less commonly taught languages, such as Vietnamese, Turkish, and Indonesian. Often the challenge in teaching these languages is having only one or two students at any given university taking a course, and in order to have a full class and […] Read Now →
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