Alli Kodila (German and Linguistics, ’24) Wins Fulbright Austria Teaching Assistantship

Alli Kodila (German and Linguistics, 2024) has won a prestigious Fulbright Austria United States Teaching Assistantship (USTA) for the 2024-2025 academic year. Alli will receive a monthly stipend and teach English near the city of Graz for 12 hours per week while continuing to pursue her linguistics interests.

As an undergraduate, Alli was an enthusiastic participant in Montclair’s SPARK for German Lab since it started in 2021, and she created a German learning comic book for children while she was on Montclair’s full-ride year-long Graz Sister-City Scholarship.

Alli was equally invested in her German and Linguistics studies and as a senior got to present her research on the contemporary Berlin “Kiezdeutsch” dialect in recent media at the Lycoming College Undergraduate Humanities Research Conference.

In summer 2024, she is interning at both the German Society of Pennsylvania (GSP) and the South Jersey American Association of Teachers of German (SJAATG), where she uses her German every day. Some of her work includes transcribing handwritten German historical texts, creating a user guide for the Transcribus program, brainstorming ideas to expand the German Society of Pennsylvania, organizing events for teachers, making a newsletter, and communicating with members.

When she returns from Austria, Alli will continue to pursue a career bridging German, Linguistics, and education.