Carol Rounds began teaching Hungarian at Columbia in 1988 and has continued to focus her efforts on Hungarian pedagogy.  She has authored two books, Hungarian: An Essential Grammar and (with Erika Solyom) and Colloquial Hungarian, A Complete Course for Beginners. Both books were published with Routledge and are now in their second editions. In 2010 she was awarded the Pro Cultura Hungarica award by the Republic of Hungary’s Minister of Culture for advancing the knowledge of Hungarian language and culture abroad.