Steven Gagnon

Position title: Korean Language Teaching Faculty

Pronouns: he/him

Email: sggagnon@wisc.edu

Steven Gagnon (he/him) earned his PhD in Second Language Studies from Michigan State University, and is joining UW-Madison as the new Korean Language Teaching Faculty in Fall 2024. Dedicated to Korean language education, he taught Korean for five years at Michigan State and served as the Interim Program Coordinator during the 2023-2024 academic year. For his service, he received several teaching awards including a university wide Excellence-in-Teaching Citation. His research interests are rooted in improving Korean language pedagogy, primarily using corpus-based methodologies to compare first-, second-, and textbook language.