Holly J. Nibert is an Associate Professor and Director of the Spanish Language Program in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. Her research focuses on the adult second language acquisition (SLA) of Spanish phonology and phonetics framed within the revised Speech Learning Model (or SLM-r) (Flege, 1987, 1995; Flege & Bohn, 2021). Projects have included intermediate phrasing in Spanish intonation, contrastive versus non-contrastive off-gliding, and pedagogical techniques for supporting instructed SLA in these areas. More broadly, she focuses on the principles and practices of teaching Spanish as a second language in the university classroom, instructor training, language program administration, and curricular development. She is co-author of two Spanish language textbooks. Her most current project examines the application of leadership studies to the emerging field of language program administration.