Christine E. Poteau is an Assistant Professor of Spanish Translation and Interpretation/Applied Spanish in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at Rowan University, USA. She also serves as US Liaison to Linguistics of the International Higher Education Teaching and Learning Association. She is the recipient of the Henderson Plenary Award at the Foreign Language Education and Technology VI Conference held at Harvard University. Her pedagogical interests and research areas include foreign and second language pedagogical methods, intercultural competence development in translation and interpretation, linguistic minorities, and medical, legal, and academic disparities. Her work has been published in Academic Exchange Quarterly.