Brody Bluemel | Humanities and Social Sciences | SIU

Brody Bluemel serves as the Director of and is a Professor in the School of Languages and Linguistics Southern Illinois University Carbondale. He holds a dual title Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics & Asian Studies from The Pennsylvania State University (2015), an M.A. in German from Middlebury College (2010), and an M.A. in Chinese Language & Culture from Valparaiso University (2009). Dr. Bluemel’s primary areas of expertise lie in Immersive Technology in Language Education (including Artificial Intelligence and Spatial Computing), Educational Technology, Corpus Linguistics, Bilingual Education, and Dual-Language Immersion.

His professional experience also includes serving as a Primary Investigator and Project Coordinator for numerous state- and federally funded projects on Dual-Language Immersion, educator professional development, and language proficiency. He has led numerous invited workshops on topics like Artificial Intelligence in Foreign Language Education and Empowering Students through Virtual Reality and Spatial Computing, including sessions for the Apple Distinguished Schools Leadership Academy. His current primary focus is on investigating the development and application of AI and Spatial computing tools to advance language learning and intercultural communication.

Publications:

• Bluemel, B. (2024). Immersive Technology in Foreign Language Education. Center for
  Advanced Language Proficiency Education and Research. Pennsylvania State University.
  Available on Apple Books.
• Schreiber, B. and Bluemel, B. (2023). Smoothing the path: Chinese American joint
  degree programs as resistance to nationalism. In Writing on the Wall. Eds. Xiaoye You,
  Brooke Schreiber, David Martins. Utah State University Press.
• McManus, K. and Bluemel, B. (2022). Instructional practices in English-Chinese and
  English-Spanish dual-language immersion classrooms. In How Special are Early Birds?
  Foreign language teaching and learning – Studies in Honour of Florence Myles. Eds.
  Kevin McManus, Vivienne Rogers, Henry Tyne, and Monika S. Schmid. Freie
  Universität Berlin. https://creativecommons.org
• Lu, X. and Bluemel, B. (2020). Automated Assessment of Language. In The Cambridge
  Introduction to Applied Linguistics. Eds. Susan Conrad, Alissa Hartig, and Lynn
  Santelmann. Cambridge University Press.
• Bluemel, B. (2019). Pedagogical Applications of Chinese Parallel Corpora. In
  Computational and Corpus Approaches to Chinese Language Learning. Eds. Xiaofei Lu
  and Berlin Chen. Springer.