Elizabeth (Betsy) Carter is a 4th-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 summers of 2022-2024, she taught German to UA students interning abroad through the Research in Munich program. In 2021, she completed a master's degree in German studies at the University of Colorado Boulder, also completing graduate certificates in TESOL and arts administration. 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 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 her graduate work, she is interested in research on study abroad, pedagogy, and cultural representation in language learning materials. In 2023, she received the Gutekunst Prize of the Friends of Goethe New York for young translators. She is also active as a singer in the Tucson area, including positions as a staff singer with Arizona Opera, the Good Shepherd UCC in Sahuarita, and the Tucson Masterworks Chorale.