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He received an AB in Spanish and Portuguese from Princeton University, and an MA in English and creative writing and a PhD in comparative literature from Stanford University. Before moving to Northwestern University to direct TriQuarterly Magazine, he taught Spanish at Rutgers and creative writing at Princeton and Columbia University.
She received her B.A. from Douglass College (Rutgers University) and earned a Ph.D. in Spanish and French at Bryn Mawr College. An Hon. Woodrow Wilson Fellow and Fulbright Scholar, she is a recipient of fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Spanish and Portuguese have acquired different words from various Amerindian, African and Asian languages, as in the following examples: 'pineapple': Sp. piña (from the Spanish word for 'pine cone') / Port. abacaxi (from Tupi) or ananás (from Tupi–Guarani; also in Spanish, by way of Portuguese, ananás or ananá).
Morales was born in Taiwan, to a Brazilian mother, Penelope, and a Puerto Rican father, Lieutenant Colonel Mario Morales, Jr. [3] She speaks Spanish and Portuguese and spent the first eighteen years of her life living in the United States and overseas in Panama, Brazil, and Spain as a "U.S. Air Force brat".
After finishing her Ph.D. in 1978, Umpierre went on to teach at several institutions. She was the first Puerto Rican to receive tenure at the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Rutgers University, where she taught the first graduate-level course on Colonial Latin American Literature. She also created the first courses on Caribbean ...
Tillis was born in Memphis, Tennessee, and was the first member of his family to attend college. [1] He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Spanish from Vanderbilt University, a Master of Arts in Spanish literature from Howard University, and a Ph.D. in Latin American literature from the University of Missouri. [3]
[1] [6] Farouk then attended Princeton University where she graduated with a B.S.E. in Chemical Engineering and also obtained a certificate in Spanish and Portuguese Language and Culture in 2007. [1] [6] Farouk went on to earn her Medical Degree (M.D.) from Rutgers University, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in
In 1970, Dr. Irizarry was appointed Professor of Spanish at Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. From 1993 to 2000, she was Editor-in-Chief of Hispania, the quarterly journal of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese, which includes articles on pedagogy, literature, linguistics, and technology-assisted language instruction related to the Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian ...