Andy Curtis has a Ph.D. in International Education and an M.A. in Applied Linguistics from the University of York, England. He is the Executive Director of the Queen's University School of English in Kingston, Ontario, Canada and a professor in the Department of Language Teacher Education at the School for International Training in Brattleboro, Vermont. In 2001, with Kathi Bailey and David Nunan, he wrote "Pursuing Professional Development: The Self as Source," and in 2004, he co-edited "Washback in Language Testing: Research Contexts and Methods," with Liying Cheng and Yoshinori Watanabe. He