Beatrice Dupuy, CERCLL Director
Beatrice Dupuy is Professor of French (Applied Linguistics), Public and Applied Humanities, and Second Language Acquisition and Teaching (SLAT). Her research focuses on (multi)literacy-based approaches to teaching and learning, multimodality, language program development and administration, and language teacher professional development.
Dr. Dupuy is co-editor of The Handbook of Language Program Development and Administration (Routledge, 2025), a landmark volume of fifty-two chapters that bridges research and practice. This work underscores the central place of program development within applied linguistics—an area that, as she and her co-editors note, exemplifies the field’s core mission: crossing disciplinary boundaries, integrating scholarly rigor with practical application, and keeping learner outcomes at the forefront.
Her earlier co-authored book, A Multiliteracies Framework for Collegiate Foreign Language Teaching (Pearson, 2015), advanced literacy as both a response to calls for reform in collegiate language programs and a foundation for coherent curricula, pedagogy, and assessment. Building on this line of research, she has published widely in journals and edited volumes, most recently in 2025 with Dr. Tara Hashemi, in a chapter entitled “Infographics by Design: Beginning French Learners’ Multimodal Composition and Authorial Agency”, in Reyes Torres, A., Brisk, M. E. & Lacorte, M. (eds.), Multiliteracies, Multimodality, and Learning by Design in Second Language Learning and Teacher Education (pp. 67-85). Routledge. A full list of her publications is available in her CV.
Dr. Dupuy serves on the editorial board of Foreign Language Annals and the Scientific Committee of Apprentissage des Langues et Systèmes d’Information et de Communication (ALSIC). At the University of Arizona, she teaches graduate seminars on foreign language methods, FL/L2 literacy, technology in language education, and language program direction. She mentors graduate students across a range of languages, guiding projects that intersect closely with her research and teachinglanguages.
Kate Mackay, Associate Director
Kate Mackay has been Associate Director of CERCLL since 2007, prior to which she was Assistant Director at the University of Arizona’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies, a National Resource Center. In 2024, she was selected for a University of Arizona Award for Excellence. At CERCLL she designs professional development opportunities for K-16 educators and supports the administration of language pedagogy and research projects. She co-led two Fulbright-Hays Group Project Abroad curriculum-building international travel seminars to Cyprus, and participated in a third for China, working with teachers before and after their in-country experiences as they prepared curriculum materials for their classrooms and for outreach in the wider community. Kate has an M.A. (Hons.) in Archaeology from Edinburgh University and an M.A. in Near Eastern Studies from the University of Arizona, focusing upon connections between regions of the eastern Mediterranean; she has taught courses related to the history, religions and culture of the Middle East and Mediterranean, both ancient and modern.
Marisol Aguirre, Outreach Coordinator
Marisol Aguirre joined CERCLL as Outreach Coordinator in October, 2022, and will be taking over some of CERCLL’s programming related to teacher professional development and community outreach. She is a former Kindergarten Dual-Language educator passionate about language learning. She has an M.Ed. in Early Childhood Education from Grand Canyon University, and from the University of Arizona, a B.S. in Family Studies and Human Development, B.A in Spanish Translation and Interpretation, and a Full-Stack Web Development Certificate from the University of Arizona Coding Bootcamp.
