Jared Hendrickson

Jared Hendrickson serves as an Instructor of Portuguese and Portuguese Program Director within the Department of Modern Languages & Classics at the University of Alabama.

His academic qualifications include:

• PhD in Portuguese from the University of Wisconsin-Madison
• MA in Portuguese from the University of Wisconsin-Madison
• BA in Portuguese and Spanish from the University of Iowa

His professional focus centers on Portuguese language pedagogy, curriculum development for Portuguese programs, and administration of graduate language proficiency exams. He specializes in Lusophone cultural studies and second-language acquisition methodologies within Hispanic and Lusophone contexts.

In his administrative capacity, he oversees the Portuguese Proficiency Exams for Graduate Students program, ensuring standardized assessment for graduate candidates across disciplines.