Department of Spanish, Italian & Portuguese
University of Virginia, VA
Skills and Interests
Academic Interests:
-
Modern Spanish and Spanish American Literature
-
Ecocriticism
-
Spanish film studies, Latin American short story, Spanish Civil War
-
20th-century literature from and about Barcelona
-
Catalan film
-
Translation from Spanish to English
​
Pedagogy:
-
Inclusion, equity and diversity in higher education
-
Virtual exchange programs
-
Providing internationalized education
-
Student-centered classrooms; Backward Design
-
Anxiety and feedback in the foreign language classroom
-
Teaching listening comprehension in the foreign language classroom
-
Teaching with technology: use of E-portfolios and creation of online videos
​
Technology use:
-
PowerPoint, Word, Excel, Socrative, Prezi, Slido, arcGIS, Kahoot, Padlet, FlipGrid
-
Wordpress, Digication, Wix
-
linkr Education, Google Classroom, Edmodo, WhatsApp, Blackboard collaborate
-
Mailchimp, Hootsuite
-
Trello, Slack, MS Teams
​
Languages:
-
Native fluency in Spanish
-
Reading and writing knowledge of Portuguese