Justin Quam

Justin Quam is a Ph.D candidate in the Department of German at Georgetown University. He received his BA in Political Science from Yale University in 2010; since graduation, he has taught English through the Fulbright Commission in Bruck an der Mur, Austria, and worked as a grade school assistant at the German International School in Portland, Oregon. His interest in language learning stems from the twelve summers he spent teaching German at Waldsee, an immersion language program in northern Minnesota, where he taught German students of all levels and ages. Justin’s primary interests include second language acquisition, identity, and foreign language curriculum development; in particular, he is interested in examining the reasons why learners maintain the study of a second language over long periods of time.