Claudia Baska Lynn is Language Program Director and Lecturer of Foreign Languages in Germanic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She received her M.A. in Germanic Languages and Literatures from the University of Pennsylvania. She is an Ed.D. candidate in Educational Linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education. Claudia teaches beginning, intermediate, and advanced German culture and language courses. Her teaching practice motivates her research interests in curriculum design, critical content-based instruction, digital humanities, technology in language education, as well as intercultural and sociocultural theories of learning.

Claudia is the co-author with Sibel Sayılı-Hurley of Bewegungen: Contemporary Social, Cultural, and Political Movements in the German-Speaking World. Bewegungen, a content-based German textbook and curriculum, is currently piloted at the University of Pennsylvania and was awarded the 2016 SAS Language Teaching Innovation Grant First Place Award. In 2018, Claudia, along with co-recipient Sibel Sayılı-Hurley, was awarded a Price Lab Project Incubation Grant for Investigating Historic Events through the Intersection of Public and Private Spheres, a project that promotes the integration of DH tools in world language education. In 2018, Claudia was co-recipient with Sibel Sayılı-Hurley of The Sachs Program For Arts Innovation Grant for Language, Culture and Contemporary Art, a project that focuses on the development of an arts-integration based pedagogy in world languages. 

Claudia has presented and given invited workshops on topics related to her research and teaching at national and regional conferences such the Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting, the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages Convention, the German Studies Association Conference, the Northeast Modern Language Association Convention, and the Northeast Association for Language Learning Technology Conference.