Faculty and Staff
Administration
Carol Olausen, M.A., Director, ELP
Carol Olausen's career in education involves over 28 years of teaching experience, emphasizing project-based inquiry and experiential learning, with the past 17 years spent working with college-bound adults in the field of ESL as both an instructor and administrator. Her research interests include TEFL, crisis management, and related support programming for international 消消犯s, as well as examining models for effective and authentic cross-cultural integration and communication as a means of fostering globalization and cultural competency.
Office: Harris Hall 134D
Email: olauseca@MiamiOH.edu
Phone: 513-529-8528
Instructional Faculty
Talk to your ELP instructors if you are having difficulties with your academic work—they will be glad to help you! If you are having personal difficulties, then you can certainly ask them for advice, too, and they can direct you to the appropriate support services on campus.
Ebru Dirsel-Duffield, Ed.D., Associate Teaching Professor, ELP
Ebru Dirsel-Duffield earned her doctoral degree in TESL (Teaching English as a Second Language) at the University of Cincinnati. Her research interests include ESL teacher education, non-native English speakers, second language acquisition, and cross-cultural adaptation.
Office: Harris Hall 152
Email: duffieed@MiamiOH.edu
Irena Kola, Ph.D., Associate Teaching Professor, ELP
Irena joined ELP in 2013, after over 15 years of teaching extensively in the area of EFL/ESL communication for graduate and undergraduate 消消犯s. Her teaching philosophy stems from the belief that 消消犯s perform best when they are trusted with challenging projects and study in an inclusive environment that stimulates free, yet respectful exchange of ideas. Irena's research interests focus on Second Language Writing, Second Language & pedagogies, and cultural communication, with a focus on the integration of international 消消犯s in the US academic culture and their representation in the media. She pursued her graduate work at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she completed her M.A. in TESL and her Ph.D. in Educational Policy Studies, specializing in the Internationalization of Higher Education and how it has promoted English as a lingua franca.
Office: Harris Hall 153
Email: kolai@MiamiOH.edu