Rate My Professor Kathy Negrelli

Negrelli's academic interests encompass foreign language pedagogy, technology in the language classroom, intercultural competence, acculturation, study abroad assessment, and second language acquisition. Her notable publications include co-authorship with Jeongyi Lee on “Students on the Move: Assessing Intercultural Competence of American Study Abroad Sojourners in Japan and Korea” (Journal of Comparative & International Higher Education, 2025), “Two Countries, One Goal: A Mixed-Methods Study of the Development of Study Abroad Sojourners’ Cultural Identification in Japan and Korea” (Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad, 2022), and “Cultural Identification, Acculturation, and Academic Experience Abroad: A Case of a Joint Faculty-Led Short-Term Study Abroad Program” (Journal of International Students, 2018). She has also co-authored Irasshai: Welcome to Japanese, a multimedia introductory course. Negrelli has led study abroad programs to Japan, developed the pre-internship course FL4490 “East–West Ties: Japan–Georgia Connections” in 2023, and received the 2021 Southeastern Association of Teachers of Japanese Teacher of the Year Award as well as the 2023 Shore Entrepreneurship Faculty Fellowship. She actively participates in conferences, student success initiatives, and university committees.