Kaylea Blaise Berard

Kaylea Berard joined the Bryn Mawr faculty in 2008. She studied Spanish, Art, and Business Studies at the State University of New York at Geneseo and earned her M.S. and Ph.D. in Spanish Linguistics from Georgetown University. With a theoretical and applied linguistics background, she teaches SPAN 216: Introducción a la lingüística hispánica, which is offered every other year. In addition to being departmental chair, she coordinates multi-section Spanish language courses at the beginning, intermediate, and advanced intermediate levels and is responsible for the Spanish placement. A member of the Accessibility Leadership Committee (ALC) since its creation in 2014, she takes an active role in increasing accessibility on campus, organizes workshops on the use of Universal Design for Learning and the use of visual aids in the university classroom, and designs games to promote collaboration among students with different learning styles and academic interests. Her current project applies her creative work to the preservation of endangered languages. She was the 2025 recipient of the McPherson Award for Excellence in Teaching and Service to the Community.