Author

Jordan Eason holds a Bachelor’s in Foreign Area Studies from the US Air Force Academy (USAFA), and a masters from Arizona State. He studied Multidisciplinary Portuguese Studies at the Universidade Aberta in Lisbon and has a Masters in Translation and Interpretation from the University of Illinois. He was an instructor and course director of Portuguese at USAFA from 2016-2018. Currently completing his PhD at the University of Coimbra focused on remediation of classics of Portuguese literature for foreign learners, he works as the sole internal subject matter expert for the Portuguese language (African, Brazilian, and European dialects) for the University of Maryland’s NFLC. He also has experience as an Instructor for the Defense Language Institute’s ICA Languages contract. A US Air Force Veteran, Eason’s work has taken him to over 30 different countries on 6 different continents.