ELI instructor promoted to Assistant Professor

The English Language Institute congratulates Grant S. Wolf on his promotion to the rank of Assistant Professor by the University of Delaware’s Board of Trustees. The official announcement came on May 23, in a letter from President David Roselle. Professor Wolf is the sixth ELI faculty member to attain the rank of Assistant Professor.

Grant Wolf

A native of South Haven, Michigan, a small, rural midwestern town, Wolf received his bachelor’s degree in music in 1979 from Michigan State University and a bachelor’s in French from James Madison University in 1985. He returned to Michigan State in 1986, and received a master’s degree in teaching English to speakers of other languages in 1988. Wolf’s first job in the field was at the Costa Rican-American Binational Center in San Jose, Costa Rica, where he taught for one academic year.

Professor Wolf came to ELI in 1989 as a summer faculty member and returned in that capacity in 1990 and 1993. In September of 1993, he became a full-time faculty member at the Institute. Wolf is well-known for creating innovative and popular ELI classes such as English through Broadway Musicals, English for Health and English as an International Language. He has been active in coordinating teacher-training programs as well as teaching in the regular ELI program.

Between 2004 and 2006, Wolf, his wife, Debra Darrell, and their son, Gregory, lived in Kobe, Japan, where Wolf served as a visiting professor at Kobe Shoin Women’s University. Wolf has also participated in short term teaching assignments in the Republic of South Korea and has done extensive teacher training here at the University of Delaware, where his contributions are greatly valued by ELI faculty and students. • RM