Erik Houle is a lecturer of Russian and Polish. He earned his PhD in Slavic Linguistics from the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Chicago in 2013. He is currently involved in an Internet based cultural enrichment project with his colleague, Kinga Kosmala, for students of Elementary and Intermediate Polish. His current interests include foreign language pedagogy, the development of task-based curriculum, second-language acquisition, the development of a standards-based approach to Polish language education, and the incorporation of culture in the foreign language classroom