Spanish Faculty
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Christopher Britt , Associate Professor of Spanish Prof. Britt received his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1998. He regularly teaches courses in modern and contemporary Spanish literature and intellectual history. He is the author of Quixotism: The Denial of Spain’s Loss of Empire (Suny Press, 2005) as well as of various essays that study the role of the intellectual in the formation of nationalist and pan-nationalist identities in Spain and Latin America. Professor Britt's principal areas of interest include modern Spanish nationalism and its links to fascism, imperialism and post- coloniality. He is currently working on a book-length project concerned with Hispanic perceptions of the U.S. and vice versa. Recent Publications:
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Yvonne Captain-Hidalgo , Associate Professor of Spanish and International Affairs
Professor Captain teaches courses related to Latin American Film and Intellectual History in addition to a course on U.S.-Africa Relations. A new course on South-South relations is in the works. She is an expert on the African Diaspora in Latin America and has broadened her research scope to include comparative approaches to the African Diaspora including: the historic Diaspora and the recent Diaspora; comparative regional Diaspora experiences; and Louisiana Creole experiences as part of the Diaspora. She has published, interviewed, and lectured widely on Latin America and is preparing a manuscript on the recent Diaspora in Europe. Finally, Professor Captain is the Executive Director of Phi Beta Delta Honor Society for International Scholars which boasts a membership of over 170 colleges and universities. Recent Publications:
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Beatriz Cobeta , Teaching Instructor of Spanish Prof. Cobeta was born and raised in Madrid, where she received her BA in Spanish Language and Literature from the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid and MA in Teching Spanish as a Second Language from the UNED-Instituto Cervantes. Before coming to GW, she taught Spanish literature and grammar courses for three years at the Universita della Sapienza in Rome, Italy. In Rome, she also taught at the Instituto Cervantes and was a grader of the DELE oral exams. She joined The George Washington University faculty in 2006. Recent Publications:
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Maria de la Fuente , Associate Professor of Spanish Professor María J. de la Fuente graduated from Georgetown University in 1998 with a PhD in Spanish and Second Language Acquisition. Her main areas of research in the field of Second Language Acquisition (SLA) are Classroom or Instructed SLA, and instructional technology in SLA. She is interested in interactive and communicative approaches to SLA, and her research has explored the role of interaction and output (causative influences for second language development) in second/foreign language (L2) vocabulary acquisition. She has also combined her interests in lexical acquisition and the interactive framework with those in the field of computer applications and SLA. The results of her research in these areas have appeared in refereed journals like Studies in Second Language Acquisition, Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL), or Language Teaching Research. Her current research focuses on the construct of task-based language learning, and the role of emerging technologies in language learning. Prof. de la Fuente was the recipient of a 2008 Bender Teaching Award.
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Patricia Granja-Falconi , Teaching Instructor of Spanish Professor Granja-Falconi is a Ph.D. candidate in Hispanic Bilingualism and Second Language Acquisition from Rutgers University (2007), researching about linguistic knowledge of preterite and imperfect in Hispanic heritage students. Recent Publications:
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Laura Levi Altstaedter , Teaching Instructor of Spanish Professor Altstaedter received her Ph.D. in Second Language Education from Virginia Tech in 2009. Her dissertation was entitled: Writing in foreign language courses: Multiple perspectives on the impact of peer feedback on students’ writing proficiency . She also holds a Bachelor’s degree in Spanish-English Translation, a Master’s degree in Curriculum and Instruction, a Master’s degree in History/Latin American Studies, and a Future Professoriate Graduate Certificate. Prof. Altstaedter has taught English and Spanish as foreign languages at the K-12 and college levels both in the United States and in Argentina. Her main research interests are: Second Language Writing, Foreign Language Instruction, Second Language Acquisition, Multimedia Research, and Computer-Assisted Language Learning. Recent Publications:
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Jaime Marroquin, Assistant Professor of Spanish Professor Marroquín received his Ph.D. from The University of Texas at Austin in 2006. His main areas of interest are Mexican Recent Publications:
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Victoria Sanchez-Samblas, Teaching Instructor of Spanish Professor Sanchez-Samblas received her Ph.D in Spanish Language and Literature from Vanderbuilt University in 2009. Her dissertation was entitled: Hispanidades transatlánticas o la reconquista espiritual de América: Blasco Ibáñez y el nacionalismo argentino en torno al Centenario. She began her educational career with Bachelor's degree (Licenciatura) from the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid in 1996. In 1997 she received her Teaching Certification and in 2001 her Masters of Arts in Teaching Spanish as a Foreign Language, both from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. In 2001 she moved to the United States. In 2003, she earned her Masters of Arts in Spanish Language and Literature from Vanderbuilt University. After teaching for one year at Christopher Newport University, she joined the GWU faculty as an Assistant Professor of Spanish in Fall 2007. Prof. Sanchez-Samblas' main research interests are: Teaching Spanish as a Second Language, Second Language Acquisition (SLA), Instructional Technologies, and Contemporary Spanish Society and Culture.
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Angeles Serrano-Ripoll, Instructor in Spanish Prof. Serrano-Ripoll received her Licentiate and her Ph.D. from the University of Valencia in Spain where she specialized in Anglo-Germanic Philology and Shakespearean Drama. Professor Serrano-Ripoll taught British Literature at the University of Valencia, and Spanish as a Foreign Language at various institutions of higher learning. She joined the GWU faculty in 1996 where she has been teaching a wide range of Spanish Language and Culture courses. Professor Serrano-Ripoll currently supervises lower intermediate and advanced levels of Spanish. Among her publications are: "La oceanografía pone la ’ a flote" (on the use of the ’ in the American Press), [1999], "El Misterio de Elche"(1999), Las traducciones de Shakespeare en España: el ejemplo de Othello, Arcos, Inc. 1988, Bibliografía shakespeariana en España: crítica y traducción, Instituto de Estudios Alicantinos (1983), and "La luz de Miguel Hernández no cesa", which is forthcoming. Professor Serrano-Ripoll's professional pursuits include the study of innovations in classroom methodology and computer-assisted instruction. Recent Publications:
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Isabel Vergara , Associate Professor of Spanish and Human Sciences Professor Vergara received her licenciatura (teaching license) from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia (Bogotá) in 1974. She was awarded a Ph.D. from Cornell University in Ithaca, NY in 1988. After teaching for three years at The Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro in Brazil, she joined The George Washington University faculty as an Assistant Professor of Spanish in 1989. Professor Vergara’s main research areas are: Gabriel García Marquez, women writers, and contemporary Latin American writers. She has published extensively on these topics, and she has given lectures nationally and internationally In 1996, Professor Vergara was invited to participate as a literary critic in a seminar entitiled “Un escritor en su laberinto” with Gabriel García Márquez in Guadalajara, Mexico. She was elected Director of the Revista de Estudios Colombianos by The Association of Colombianists in 1993. Recent Publications:
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Sergio Waisman, Associate Professor of Spanish and International Affairs Prof. Waisman received his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley (2000), and an MA in Creative Writing from the University of Colorado, Boulder (1995). His areas of research and teaching include nineteenth- and twentieth-century Latin American literature, literary theory, translation, and Jewish Latin American literature. His book Borges and Translation: The Irreverence of the Periphery was published in English by Bucknell and in Spanish in Argentina by Adriana Hidalgo (both in 2005). Sergio Waisman has translated six books of Latin American literature, including The Absent City byRicardo Piglia (Duke Univ. Press), for which he received an NEA Translation Fellowship Award in 2000. Sergio Waisman published his first novel, entitled Leaving, in 2004 (Intelibooks). His latest translations are The Underdogs by Mariano Azuela (Penguin Classics) and Selected Writings by Leopoldo Lugones (Oxford).
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Zulima Álvarez-Menéndez , Adjunct Professor of Spanish
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Robert Bird , Lecturer in Spanish
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Marta Camps , Professorial Lecturer in Spanish
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Antonio Castillo-Lao , Adjunct Professor of Spanish
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Coral de Jesús , Lecturer in Spanish
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Belen Fernandez de la Pena, Lecturer in Spanish
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Maria del Carmen Flaherty, Lecturer in Spanish
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Encarla Friedrich, Lecturer in Spanish
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Maria Gonzalez , Lecturer in Spanish
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Celine Guisset , Lecturer in Spanish |
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Rainiel Guzman, Lecturer in Spanish |
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Sherman Hughes, Lecturer in Spanish
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Julia Kragh-Gunduz , Lecturer in Spanish
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Margarita Moreno , Adjunct Instructor of Spanish |
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Manuel Muñoz Romero , Lecturer in Spanish
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Catherine Osborne, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Spanish
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Dolores Perillan , Adjunct Instructor in Spanish
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Javier Ramirez, Lecturer in Spanish
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Alberto Robles , Lecturer in Spanish
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Magdalena Stepien, Lecturer in Spanish
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Julio Torres, Lecturer in Spanish Julio holds an M.A. in Spanish Literature from St. Louis University in Madrid and a M.S. in Spanish Linguistics from Georgetown University. Currently, he is a Ph.D. candidate at Georgetown University in Spanish Applied Linguistics. His broad research interest is examining the interaction between internal (cognitive) and external variables in bilingualism and adult second language acquisition -- issues such as incomplete acquisition in bilingualism, role of attention, explicit/implicit processes and the role of tasks. He is also passionate about foreign language pedagogy and curriculum design. He is a permanent certified Spanish teacher in the state of Pennsylvania where he taught for six years. He has taught SPAN 004 and SPAN 109 at GW.
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Maria Townsley , Adjunct Professor of Spanish
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Mercedes Valen , Adjunct Professor of Spanish |
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Jaime Vilchez, Lecturer in Spanish
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Matthew Vuskovich , Lecturer in Spanish
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Jean Yates , Adjunct Professor of Spanish Professor Yates received a B.A. in Spanish and an M.A. in Linguistics from American University, and a PhD in Spanish Philology at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. She has taught English as a Second Language and Spanish at Northern Virginia Community College, Marymount University, the Australian National University, Canberra College of Advanced Education (Australia), and Dhaka University (Bangladesh), and has conducted corporate training in both languages for private and international organizations both in Washington, D.C. and abroad. She joined the GW faculty in 1997. Her paper comparing the English Present Perfect Tense with the Spanish Pretérito Perfecto was presented at the International Conference on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Spanish, Ohio State University, in 1999 and published in 2001 by Lincom Europa, Munich. She has published 5 books for Spanish and English for Barron’s Educational Series, and 8 for McGraw-Hill, several of which are currently in their second editions. She is currently interested in the description and translation of discourse markers in Spanish and English, and in ways to incorporate their acquisition into all levels of instruction. |
Ines Azar , Professor of Spanish and Human Sciences
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Janet Hampton , Associate Professor of Spanish
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Pilar Saenz , Professor of Spanish
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