Elizabeth (Betsy) Carter is a 2nd-year student in the Interdisciplinary Ph.D. program in Second Language Acquisition and Teaching (SLAT) at the University of Arizona and a graduate associate teacher with the Department of German Studies. In the summer of 2022, she taught German to UA students interning abroad through the Research in Munich program and studied at the University of Leipzig with the support of a DAAD University Summer Course Grant. In 2021, she completed a master's degree in German studies at the University of Colorado Boulder. While at CU, she also completed graduate certificates in TESOL and arts administration in anticipation of a career in language education and cultural management. Prior to that, 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 in Göttingen, Germany. She has taught German classes in her role as a teaching assistant at Brown and CU, as well as at a Waldorf school in Boulder, Colorado. In her graduate work, she is interested in how to enact creative writing and literary translation practices as tools in the language classroom, how to best utilize students' broad range of knowledges and linguistic skills as they learn another language, and how cultures are represented in language learning materials.