Susan A. Hildebrandt, Ph.D. (University of Iowa, 2006) is Professor of Applied Linguistics and Spanish at Illinois State University in Normal, Illinois. She currently serves as the Special Assistant to the Provost. She previously served as the Interim Associate Dean for Academics for Illinois State University’s Mennonite College of Nursing from July 2022 to June 2023 and the Interim Chair of the Department of Special Education from 2019 to 2022. As a faculty member from 2009 to 2019, she coordinated the World Language Teacher Education Program for the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at Illinois State University, earning national program recognition through ACTFL/CAEP accreditation and an inaugural ACTFl Global Engagement Initiative Award.