This semester, Lisa Donahoe has been invited to be a visiting faculty member at the Azerbaijan Diplomatic Academy, Baku, Azerbaijan. ADA is an English-medium academy for students earning a masters degree in international relations. Continuing a relationship between ADA and MIIS that began in the fall of 2008, she is teaching Public Speaking to students in the Master of Arts in Diplomacy and International Affairs (MADIA) program. The curriculum for this program was designed by a MATESOL team through Intensive Language programs in 2008-2009. While in Baku, Lisa will continue her duties as Education Associate at CNS, providing the first-ever online English Language and Nonproliferation (ELAN) course using Internet technologies (a combination of Skype and a blog designed specifically for the course). This particular course, English for Nuclear Security: Speaking and Listening, has been designed for scientific faculty at Tomsk Polytechnic University, including some of those who attended the summer 2010 ELAN and Content-Based Instruction Team Teaching courses held in Monterey.

Finally, Lisa is collaborating with two Azerbaijani colleagues on an applied linguistics research project focusing on second languages and post-colonial national identity in the South Caucasus—Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Armenia. She is chronicling her work on her blog, a continuing saga of An English Teacher in the World.