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Washington University in St. Louis
English Language Program
Faculty Information
Karen Schwelle, Director
Larenda M. Mielke, Assistant Director
Jackie Militello, Instructor
Mark Bass, Part-Time Instructor
Luisette Behmer, Part-time Instructor
Rachel M. Davis, Part-time Instructor
Edem Dzunu, Part-time Instructor
Pamela Dzunu, Part-time Instructor
Marjorie J. Maclin, Part-time Instructor
Hannah Song, Part-time Instructor
Staci Thomas, Part-time Instructor
Charlotte Wallace, Part-time Instructor
Karen Schwelle | Director | kschwelle@wustl.edu | 314-935-5966
M.A. (TESL), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
M.A. (German Literature), Indiana University at Bloomington
Karen Schwelle joined the English Language Programs (ELP) as an instructor in 1998 and has been teaching since 1994.
She has developed courses and workshops geared to the needs of international students in WUSTL's School of Law, Olin School of Business, and George Warren Brown School of Social Work. She has also collaborated with the English Department in developing and teaching a tutorial to support nonnative English speaking undergraduates concurrently enrolled in a preparatory writing course. Other courses she has recently taught include Advanced Pronunciation I and II. In addition to her work within the ELP, Karen serves as a four-year academic advisor for the College of Arts & Sciences.
She served as Chair (2007-08) of the English for Specific Purposes (ESP) Interest Section of Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages. The ESP Interest Section supports collaboration between language specialists and subject area specialists to analyze the specialized language demands of a learner's field of work/study and to design a curriculum and materials to help language learners meet those demands. Karen was also a member of the Executive Board (2001-2004) of Mid-America Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages.
Her interest in language teaching and working with international students is informed and inspired in part by experiences as an exchange student in Vienna, Austria and as a Fulbright Teaching Assistant for English and American Studies in Magdeburg, Germany.
Larenda M. Mielke | Assistant Director | mielke@wustl.edu | 314-935-5046
M.A. (Cross-Cultural Education, TESL emphasis), Wheaton College Graduate School
Larenda Mielke began teaching with the English Language Programs at Washington University in St. Louis in August, 2004. She has been on the faculties of the College of DuPage, Evergreen College, the University of California at Santa Cruz, the University of Memphis, and the University of Denver.
She has also been a full-time consultant with LinguaTec, a high tech consulting company meeting the needs of Silicon Valley's nonnative speakers in the engineering and management fields. Larenda was the higher education associate chair for the board of CoTESOL (Colorado Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages) in 2004, and has presented at CaTESOL (in California), Rocky Mountain TESOL (in Colorado), MidTESOL (in the Midwest), and the international TESOL conference in 2011. A holder of the AMWA Editing/Writing Professional Certificate, she also presented at the national conference of the American Medical Writers Association (AMWA) in 2007, 2009, 2010, and as an invited panelist in 2011.
Internationally, Larenda has presented biomedical research writing workshops at the medical school of Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, China and business writing workshops at Fudan University in Shanghai. An avid proponent of lifetime learning, Larenda is studying for her Executive MBA at the Olin Business School at Washington University, testing her time management skills while fulfilling full-time roles as both instructor and student.
Jackie Militello | Instructor | jmilitello@wustl.edu | 314-935-7402
M.A. (TESOL), Webster University
M.I.A., School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University
Jackie Militello has been teaching in the English Language Programs (ELP) since 2009. She has taught in the ELP's Competitive Communications Workshop for entering international students at the Olin School of Business. Other courses she teaches include Language, Culture, and Interaction Strategies for Teaching Assistants, Presentation Skills for the Sciences, and Talking to Americans: Casual and Professional Conversations. Jackie also conducts writing tutorials for students and has provided corporate tutorials on presentation skills, business communication, and pronunciation for international employees at Ascension Healthcare and Peabody Energy.
Previously, Jackie taught English as a foreign language to business executives and children with intellectual disabilities in addition to working in banking and consulting during her 18 years in Tokyo.
Mark Bass | Part-Time Instructor | mark.bass@wustl.edu | 314-935-5910 (messages)
M.B.A, Texas A & M University
M.A. (Teaching English as a Second Language), Southern Illinois University
Luisette Behmer | Part-Time Instructor | lbehmer@wustl.edu | 314-935-4787
M.A. (Secondary Education and ESL), University of Puerto Rico
Luisette Behmer has been teaching ESL since 1973 and has been teaching in the English Language Programs (ELP) since 1988. She teaches reading and speaking/listening in the ELP's summer intensive English program. She has also taught Conversation and Pronunciation; Grammar, Writing, and Reading; Writing Workshop for Nonnative English Speakers; Idioms and Slang; and Oral Presentation Skills for the Humanities and Social Sciences.
Previously, in Puerto Rico, Luisette taught on the summer faculty of the Sacred Heart High School, part time at Sacred Heart College, and at the University of Puerto Rico (Humacao Campus). While in Puerto Rico, she served on the Executive Board of Puerto Rico TESOL (Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages). She has also worked as a clinical supervisor and coordinator in the Teaching Techniques Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and conducted TA training workshops through the Office of Instructional Resources on that campus.
In addition to teaching part time in the ELP, Luisette is the coordinator of the Host Family Program, OISS contact for the Be Our Guest dinner program, and the editor of The International Voice, the newsletter of the Office for International Students and Scholars. She has also served as President of the Woman's Club at WUSTL.
Rachel M. Davis | Part-Time Instructor | rdavis25@wustl.edu | 314-935-5910 (messages)
M.A. (Ancient Near Eastern Languages and Applied Linguistics), DTS, Dallas, Texas
Rachel M. Davis joined the English Language Programs (ELP) in 2010. She teaches in the ELP's Competitive Communication Skills Workshop for entering international students at the Olin School of Business. She also teaches Fundamentals of Research Writing for Graduate Students and Writing Tutorial for English Composition in addition to conducting writing tutorials for undergraduates.
Rachel has worked as a professional writer in corporate marketing and grant writing. Between two stints of living in China, she returned to the U.S. to complete her graduate degree in applied linguistics. Her most recent work in China included researching a dialect of Southern Zhuang and editing the Minorities of China website. Her zeal for teaching languages is matched only by her enthusiasm for learning languages. She speaks Mandarin Chinese, Russian, German and a dialect of Southern Zhuang.
Edem Dzunu | Part-Time Instructor | edzunu@wustl.edu | 314-935-5910 (messages)
M.A. (TEFL), University of North London
Edem Dzunu joined the English Language Programs (ELP) in 2010, where he teaches Listening and Speaking and Conversations About Recent Films. He also teaches in the English language support program for students at the George Warren Brown School of Social Work.
Before joining the ELP, Edem was an adjunct faculty member at Saint Louis University, where he taught English for Academic Purposes. Before that, he led seminar sessions in the Change Management Program for graduate students in the Department of Area and Language Studies, London Metropolitan University. He also taught English as a Global Language at Roehampton University in London; furthermore, at the University of Bremen in Germany, he worked as a research person in the Department of Cultural Sciences, participating in research designed to investigate evidence of cultural hybridity as a result of contact between cultures, and he also taught communicative skills in the English Language Department. Edem spent time in China where he taught Speaking and Listening as well as Communicative Skills in the Department of Education, Anshan Normal University.
He is co-founder of Baobab Learning, an organization geared toward connecting cultures through dialogue and learning. Edem is also a commissioned officer in the United States Army Chaplain Corps (reserve), attached to the 10th Psychological Operations Battalion. He has keen interest in cross cultural experiences in research cultures and language hybridity as well as research interest in Cultural Linguistics and Clinical Pastoral Education.
Pamela Dzunu | Part-Time Instructor | pguntharp@wustl.edu | 314-935-5910 (messages)
M.A. (TESL), Southern Illinois University at Carbondale
M.A (Intercultural Studies), Golden Gate Theological Seminary at San Francisco
Pamela Dzunu has been a part-time instructor in the English Language Programs (ELP) since 2003. She studied at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, where she also was an instructor in the ESL Writing Program. Prior to that, she also earned a master's degree in Intercultural Studies. She has taught ESL since 1993 and has traveled throughout Asia and Africa, including Azerbaijan and Ethiopia, in each of which she lived and worked for two years. In addition to teaching part-time at WUSTL, Pamela is currently a part-time instructor at St. Louis Community College at Forest Park. She is a member of Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and Mid-America Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages.
Of the courses offered by the ELP, Pamela has taught Conversation and Pronunciation, Listening and Speaking I/II, Academic and Professional Seminar Speaking Skills, and Speaking and Grammar II. In the ELP's summer intensive English program, Pamela teaches a course geared to the listening/speaking needs of new international students who will enter the LLM program in the Washington University School of Law. She also has taught English support for graduate-level architecture students.
Pamela is also co-founder of Baobab Learning, an organization devoted to connecting cultures through dialogue and learning.
Margorie J. Maclin | Part-Time Instructor | margie.maclin@wustl.edu | 314-935-5910 (messages)
M.A. (TESL), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Margorie J. Maclin joined the English Language Programs (ELP) in 2004. While she has taught a variety of adult ESL courses at four different institutions, her focus has been academic writing for international graduate students. She has also taught academic writing for native English speaking students and served as a writing consultant. She is a member of Mid-America Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages.
At WUSTL she has taught research writing for students and employees on the WUSTL Medical Campus and Danforth Campus. Courses she has taught most recently include Writing Workshop for Nonnative English Speakers. Within the ELP's summer intensive English program, she has taught Intensive Reading and Writing for International Students (General Academic Section).
Hannah Song | Part-Time Instructor | hhsong@wustl.edu | 314-935-5910 (messages)
M.A. (TESL), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Hannah Song has been teaching with the English Language Programs (ELP) since 2008. She began teaching ESL in 2000. Within the ELP, she teaches Advanced Pronunciation I and provides pronunciation and writing tutorials as well as appointment-based writing help. Additionally, she teaches a presentation skills/pronunciation class in the ELP's Competitive Communication Skills Workshop for incoming international graduate students at the Olin School of Business.
Before joining the ELP, Hannah taught a variety of courses-including academic listening/speaking, reading/writing, pronunciation, conversation, and grammar-at the Intensive English Institute in Urbana-Champaign, Illinois. At the University of Illinois, she taught presentation skills and pronunciation to international MBA students. In 2002, she taught English to undergraduate students in Thailand and Myanmar and served as the program director for a summer English program.
Staci Thomas | Part-Time Instructor | staci_thomas@wustl.edu | 314-935-5910 (messages)
M.A. (TESOL) Webster University
Staci Thomas has been a part-time instructor in the English Language Programs (ELP) since 2010. She teaches Presentation Skills for the Sciences and Presentation Skills for the Humanities and Social Sciences. She also teaches Engineering Writing for Nonnative English Speakers and the Competitive Communication Skills Workshop for incoming international graduate students at the Olin School of Business. In addition to her work with the ELP, Staci teaches Fluency in Sociotechnology for the advanced undergraduate Praxis program in the College of Arts & Sciences.
Before joining the ELP, Staci studied Mandarin Chinese at the Defense Language Institute and served as a translator for the U.S. Air Force. In addition, Staci has nineteen years of business experience, with a focus in marketing communication and technical writing. She continues her work in business as an independent marketing consultant to biomedical corporations. She has developed numerous corporate communication and training programs, and has served as an ESL tutor. She is a member of TESOL (Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages).
Charlotte Wallace | Part-Time Instructor | cwallace@wustl.edu | 314-935-5910 (messages)
M.A. (Russian Literature), New York University
J.D., Washington University School of L aw
Charlotte Wallace joined the English Language Programs (ELP) as an instructor in 2009. She teaches Legal Reading and Writing to new international students who will enter the LLM program in the Washington University School of Law. Charlotte's teaching is directly informed by her first-hand experience as law student at Washington University Law and subsequent legal experience, as well as a lifelong love of teaching, having taught both French and Russian at high school and university levels across the United States.
Charlotte served as judicial law clerk to the Maine Superior Court and has published a note in an international law journal on the Russian legal process. She has worked in large law firms, boutiques, and corporations in a legal capacity.
Charlotte worked as Russian-speaking guide for the United States Information Agency in Kiev, Ukraine, Alma Ata, Kazakhstan, and Tbilisi, Georgia, led student tours of the former Soviet Union, and participated in a teachers' exchange at Moscow University. She also lived and studied for one year in Paris, France.
Charlotte is a member of Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and the Legal Writing Institute.