Shannon Geary received a BA in International Studies at Southwestern University and
an MA in Linguistics at Texas AandM Commerce. She taught English as a Foreign Language
in Madrid, Spain for 10 years before moving to Fort Worth to teach English as a Second
Language at Lake Worth and Keller Independent School Districts. Prior to joining UNT
in Denton, she taught at UNT’s Program at Kansai Gaidai University in Osaka, Japan,
and English for Academic Purposes to international students at The Language Company
on the campus of Texas Wesleyan University.