Rachel Klevar is the Director of Undergraduate Studies for the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, supervises the GE CLAS Core elementary Spanish courses, and teaches a wide variety of face-to-face and online classes. She holds a Ph.D. in Early Modern Spanish Literature from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Rachel grew up in Decorah, Iowa, and despite being a native Midwesterner, wholeheartedly loathes winter.

Rachel's research interests include Early Modern Spanish literature, pedagogical best practices for flipped and online language classrooms, and the development of Open Educational Resources (OER) for Spanish language learners. She is the co-author of Semillas and Semillas II, free online textbooks for Elementary Spanish I and II.