Marilyn Manley

Dr. Marilyn S. Manley is a Full Professor of Spanish and Chair of the World Languages department at Rowan University since 2015. She holds a leadership role as Co-Director of the Quechua Innovation and Teaching Initiative (QINTI). Her primary affiliation is within the College of Humanities & Social Sciences.

Dr. Manley's educational background includes studies in the United States, Spain, Mexico, and Peru. Her research focuses on sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, and indigenous languages like Quechua (spoken by 8+ million Andean descendants) and Juchitán Zapotec. She has conducted fieldwork with speakers of English, Spanish, Quechua, and Zapotec.

Recent professional highlights include a featured video by Rowan’s College of Humanities and Social Sciences. Her teaching philosophy emphasizes the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SOTL) in language education.

She maintains an active research agenda with ongoing projects in linguistic documentation and applied language studies, though specific grant details are not provided in the text.