Elizabeth (Betsy) Carter is a Ph.D. candidate in Second Language Acquisition and Teaching (SLAT) at the University of Arizona and a graduate associate teacher with the Department of German Studies. In support of her dissertation research on the long-term outcomes of study abroad, she was selected as a 2025-2026 Russell J. and Dorothy S. Bilinski Fellow and received a 2025 ACTFL Research Priorities Grant. During the summers of 2022-2025, she taught German to UA students interning abroad through the Research in Munich program. At the UA, she has also been a grader and teaching assistant for courses on intercultural competence, multilingualism, language pedagogy, art history, classics, and medieval literature. From 2024 to 2025, she taught English as a Second Language at Pima Community College.
Betsy holds a master's degree in German studies from the University of Colorado Boulder, where she also completed graduate certificates in TESOL and arts administration. She earned her bachelor's degree at Brown University, majoring in music and comparative literature with an honors thesis in literary translation. While at Brown, she studied abroad in Vienna, Austria, and while at CU Boulder, she studied abroad at the University of Göttingen, Germany. With the support of a 2022 DAAD University Summer Course Grant, she studied pedagogy and language at the University of Leipzig, and she returned to the University of Leipzig for a summer seminar on "Diversity and Social (In)Justice in German as a Foreign Language" funded by the American Association of Teachers of German in 2024. She has taught German classes in her role as a teaching assistant at Brown and CU Boulder, as well as at a Waldorf school in Boulder, Colorado. In 2023, she received the Gutekunst Prize of the Friends of Goethe New York for young translators.