Danielle Geary
Senior Lecturer of Spanish
- School of Modern Languages
Overview
Dr. Danielle Geary is a Senior Lecturer of Spanish in the School of Modern Languages. Her extensive international travel experience includes living in Spain for several years, directing study abroad programs in Spain and Mexico, and conducting ethnographic field research in Costa Rica. Since joining Georgia Tech in 2010, she has earned multiple CETL certificates for excellence in teaching and has received several awards recognizing her contributions, including the Distinguished Non-Tenure Track Academic Faculty Teaching Award in 2023, the Student Recognition of Excellence in Teaching CIOS Award in 2024, and a place on the CETL Honor Roll for her conversation practicum course in 2025. She is consistently ranked in the category "best in school" in the CIOS areas of clear communication, respect for students, and enthusiasm for teaching.
In 2013, she created the first online Spanish program at Georgia Tech. She also designed the course Spanish for the Professions to prepare students for careers abroad or bilingual positions in the United States. Her special topics course, Spanish TV Series, explores historical themes such as Francisco Franco’s dictatorship, WWII, and espionage, through Spanish-language television. Conversation Practicum is an intense, immersive course designed to push students out of their comfort zones to build confidence in speaking. The goal is to converse with as many native speakers as possible over the course of the semester. The top student speaker to date talked to 46 native speakers by the semester's end.
Dr. Geary's scholarly articles address the topics of study abroad, online learning, and international students. She is often invited to review new digital learning materials and textbooks, and has presented at various universities and conferences on how to use technology to teach foreign language courses. Her teaching style is featured in six chapters of more than 30 original Spanish video lessons she created for the educational platform Study.com.
She holds a Master's in Spanish from the University of Salamanca in Spain and a Doctor of Education with research concentration in study abroad and foreign language acquisition from Nova Southeastern University.
Her favorite thing about teaching at Georgia Tech is the students - they're phenomenal!