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Susana Fernández Solera Adoboe is a Teaching Professor of Spanish and Provost Faculty Fellow at ¾«¶«´«Ã½. She teaches Spanish language and culture and leads student-centered curriculum and assessment work in World Languages and Literatures. Originally from Madrid, Spain, she earned a Ph.D. in Psycholinguistics from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, she worked with interdisciplinary teams at the University of Edinburgh and the University of Massachusetts on syntactic parsing, language comprehension, and language acquisition. At ¾«¶«´«Ã½, Susana pairs excellent teaching with evidence-based program design and assessment. She collaborates across departments and colleges to align learning outcomes, measures, and targets with institutional goals, and advances credentialing initiatives that support career readiness. Recent projects include piloting the AVANT STAMP proficiency assessment, integrating the Global Seal of Biliteracy as a stackable, portable credential, and exploring applications of AI in language learning to strengthen retention, academic performance, and career readiness.

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Education

• Ph.D., Psycholinguistics, Cognitive Sciences
• Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain)
• M.A Psycholinguistics— Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain)
• B.Sc. in Psychology — Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain)
• A.A in Philosophy— Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain)
• Accredited DELE (Diplomas of Spanish as a Foreign Language) Examiner
• levels A1–C2 and A2/B1 Escolar, Instituto Cervantes, 2013–present

Areas of Focus

• Human-Centered, AI-Powered Language Learning
• Proficiency-Oriented Teaching & Performance-Based Assessment
• Intercultural Communicative Competence & Cultural Intelligence
• Curriculum innovation; credential pathways (e.g., Global Seal of Biliteracy)
• Psycholinguistics; sentence processing; language comprehension
• Second-Language Assessment, Rubrics, and Continuous Improvement
• Assessment & program evaluation in world languages
• Applied classroom technology and transparency‑based assignment design (TILT)

Teaching

• Intermediate Spanish
• Beginning Spanish
• Spanish Culture
• Introduction to Psycholinguistics
• Conversation & Composition
• Advanced Spanish