TLTC Staff:

Carl Blyth

Carl Blyth is the Director of the Texas Language Technology Center (TLTC) and Associate Professor of French Linguistics in the Department of French and Italian.  He has held several administrative positions prior to TLTC: Coordinator of Lower Division French (1993-2002), Acting Director of Technology, Literacy and Culture (2001-2002), and Director/Asst Director of the UT Summer Program in Lyon, France.  He has worked with colleagues on an online reference grammar of French (Tex's French Grammar), and a multimedia-based first year French program (Français interactif). 

Carl has written various journal articles, book chapters and books which include the following: author of Untangling the Web: Nonce's Guide to Language and Culture on the Internet (Nonce, 1999), editor of The Sociolinguistics of Foreign Language Classrooms  (Heinle, 2003), co-author with Stacey Katz of Teaching French Grammar in Context (Yale University Press, 2007), and co-author with N. Megharbi & S. Pellet of Pause-café: French in Review (McGraw-Hill, 2009). Currently, he serves as the Series Editor of Issues in Language Program Direction, an annual volume devoted to foreign language learning in higher education.

Karen Kelton

Karen Kelton is the Project Manager in the Texas Language Technology Center and a Senior Lecturer in the Department of French and Italian.  She supervises lower-division French courses and directs the UT Summer Program in Lyon, France.

Curriculum development has been the focus of her career at UT, in particular, building Tex's French Grammar and Français Interactif with colleagues for UT's first year on-line French program.  At TLTC she is the project manager for Grimm Grammar, Deutsch im Blick, and Chansons françaises.

Nathalie Steinfeld

Nathalie Steinfeld is the Web Developer for the Texas Language Technology Center. She has taken over the maintenance and deployments of all TLTC projects after she joined the team in 2008.

She is a graduate of Texas State Univesity, San Marcos with a major in Fine Arts and a minor in Computer Science. Previously to moving to Austin, Nathalie studied art history at the University of Zürich and completed an art program at the local art academy.