Ann Hilberry Randhawa

Ann Hilberry Randhawa is a Teaching Professor and the Spanish 231 Coordinator in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures.  Ann spent her junior year of high school in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, where she fell in love with the Spanish language and Mexican culture.  She went to Kalamazoo College as an undergraduate student, where she majored in Psychology, and then went on to study Hispanic literature at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she completed her Master’s degree.  After completing her Master’s degree and a year towards her PhD, she lived in Lisbon, Portugal for a year where she taught English as a Second Language at International House Language Schools and worked on her Portuguese language skills.  Upon returning to the U.S. from Portugal, she taught Spanish and English as a Second language classes at Kalamazoo College for a term.  While teaching at Kalamazoo College, she was hired at the University of Michigan as a Spanish Coordinator. She has been teaching Spanish and coordinating courses in the Elementary Spanish Program at UM since January of 1990.  Ann has received two Whitaker grants here at the University of Michigan:  one to create cultural case studies for Spanish 231 students and another to create short interactive cultural lectures also for Spanish 231 students.  She is passionate about making her students feel enthusiastic about learning Spanish and also helping the instructors she supervises to feel inspired about teaching Spanish.