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Che Sokol, PhD

World Languages Teacher
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill | PhD in English and comparative literature with a concentration in Francophone North African cinema
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga/Brock Scholars Program | BA in English literature and French language and literature

CSokol@GPS.edu
Dr. Che Sokol joined the GPS community as a French teacher in the fall of 2024. After earning her BA in English literature and French language from UTC’s Brock Scholars Program, Che spent a year teaching at both university-prep and vocational high schools near Avignon, France. Since 2015, Che has worked as a Graduate Instructor, teaching French language courses with a focus on Francophone world cultures, in addition to Global Cinema, Beginner Arabic, and surveys of important women in World Literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In 2019, she received UNC-Chapel Hill’s Diane R. Leonard Award for Outstanding Foreign Language Teaching. Then she worked as a lecturer at Paul Valéry University in Montpellier, France, where she also served as an international internship advisor and coordinated interdisciplinary conversation classes centered on YA literature and pop culture.
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