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Mary Elizabeth Encabo-Bischoff
Clinical Assistant Professor of Linguistics
Department of English and Linguistics
Mary Elizabeth Encabo-Bischoff
Clinical Assistant Professor of Linguistics
Department of English and Linguistics
Mary Encabo Bischoff is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Linguistics and Director of Youth Programs at Purdue University Fort Wayne. She graduated summa cum laude from Bryn Mawr College and completed her graduate studies in International Educational Development at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research focus is on teacher education, educational policy, and curriculum and pedagogy in Southeast Asia. During her time at Penn, she also specialized in educational entrepreneurship and non-profit/NGO management. At Purdue Fort Wayne she not only teaches college students, but also works with teachers of English as a Second and Foreign language and directs the English Language Partners (ELP) Program, which has served over 1,000 individuals from Myanmar, Thailand, Nepal, the Philippines, Ecuador, India, Japan, and the list continues to grow. She previously served on the board of Fort Wayne Sister Cities, which led to exchanges and partnerships with universities in Myanmar and Japan.