Ryan Goble

Dr. Ryan Goble is the Communications and Marketing Manager for WISLI and the Language Program Office (LPO), where he also coordinates the Intensive Summer Multilanguage Program and the Less Commonly Taught Languages Career Fair. Previously, he coordinated SASLI, the South Asia Summer Language Institute, for two years.

Before joining the LPO in 2022, Dr. Goble served as project coordinator for the Wisconsin Language Roadmap Initiative at the UW-Madison Language Institute, collaborating with diverse leaders and lending logistical support to promote, strengthen, and expand equitable access to world language education. In addition, at the Center for Russia, East Europe, and Central Asia (CREECA), he carried out the communications strategy for this Title VI National Resource Center and coordinated the Pushkin Summer Institute-Abroad of the virtual National Security Language Institute for Youth (NSLI-Y) for Russian.

An applied linguist by training, Dr. Goble earned his PhD in Second Language Acquisition at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has extensive experience teaching English as an additional language in various settings, including here at UW-Madison and abroad in Peru. His research focuses on intersections between bi/multilingual and professional development and has appeared in the Modern Language Journal and the Journal of Language, Identity, and Education.