Faculty & Staff

Part-Time Faculty: Spanish

Juliana Berte
Part-Time Lecturer in Spanish
Contact: (617) 627-5115| Email
Degrees: B.A. Spanish Language and Literature, Universidad de Córdoba, Argentina; M.A. Hispanic Linguistics, University of Minnesota
Expertise: Hispanic Linguistics
 

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Anne de Laire Mulgrew
Part-Time Lecturer in Spanish
Contact: 617-627-2754| Email
Degrees: B.A. & M.A, Vassar College; M.A. & Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University

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Anne Lombardi Cantú
Part-Time Lecturer
Contact: (617) 627-5545 | Email
Degrees: M.A.'95, Ph.D.'03 in Spanish-American Literature & Culture, Boston College
Expertise: Mexican studies, identity, indigenous literature, Latin American theater, Spanish language pedagogy

Selected 5 Publications/Conferences:

• "La poesía náhuatl en contexto: el maestro Natalio Hernández." Latin American Studies
  Association conference, Montreal, September 2007.
• "¿Quién mató a Pilo Tamirano Luca?" Decimocuartas Jornadas Internacionales de Teatro Latinoamericano, Puebla, Mexico, July 2006.
• " 'Que me maten de una vez': La Malinche en obras de Hugo Argüelles y Willebaldo López." Fifth Conference on Latin American Theater, University of Kansas, April 2003.
• "La revancha de Moctezuma en Aguila real de Hugo Argüelles." Romance Review Conference, Boston College, March 2001.
• "ArtSmart: Workshop on integrating art into multiple levels of language proficiency;" Massachusetts Foreign Language Association Conference, October 1999.

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Nancy Levy-Konesky
Part-Time Lecturer in Spanish
Contact: 617-627-5115 | Email
Degrees: B.A. & M.A., American University; Ph.D., Boston College
Expertise: Foreign language methodology; Second language acquisition; Immersion techniques; Curriculum and instruction: university/high school/middle school with an emphasis on interdisciplinary curriculum development, content-based learning, technology/video in the classroom, cooperative learning, blended and distance learning; Experiential learning/Community and service learning; Caribbean literature and culture with an emphasis on Puerto Rico.

Selected Publications/Conferences:

• Nuevos horizontes: gramática, conversación y cultura, primera edición: intermediate Spanish text, John Wiley Publishers, 2004.
• Fuentes, Intermediate Spanish video program, Houghton Mifflin Publishers, 2004.
• Horizontes: gramática y conversación, quinta edición, intermediate Spanish text, John Wiley Publishers, 2003.
• Así es 4th edition: elementary Spanish language and Hispanic culture college textbook, CD-ROM, Website, full set of ancillaries, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Harcourt Brace, Thomson Heinle Publishers.
• (Nuevas) Fronteras: gramática y conversación, second edition, Fronteras: literature y cultura, Editions 1-3, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1996.
• Interview with Gloria Estefan, “Preserving Latino Culture in the U.S.,” Boston, MA. Interview with John Leguizama, Pedro Martínez, Alberto Gonzales, “Hispanics in the U.S.” Interview with Former Counsel to the President, Alberto Gonzales, The White House, Washington, D.C. Interview with Mel Martínez, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Washington, D.C., “Growing Latino Population in the U.S.” Interview with Isabel Allende, “The Creative Process,” “Politics in Chile.” (2001-2006).

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Nancy M. Kelly
Part-Time Lecturer in Spanish and French
Contact: (617) 627-2754 | Email
Degrees: B.A. French and Spanish; M.A. French (Spanish minor); Ph.D. French Literature and Culture, Boston College
Expertise: Vietnamese Literature in French, Women’s Autobiography, Foreign Language Pedagogy

Selected Publications/Conferences:

• “John Rassias: A Legend Among Language Educators.” Breakthrough: Essays and Vignettes in Honor of John A. Rassias. Ed. Mel Yoken, New York: Peter Lang, 2007.
• “The New Multimedia Language Labs: Supporting Language Acquisition For All Students, Sanako Tandberg Language Learning Newsletter October, 2006.
• “Engage All Students: Internet and Communication in Multimedia Language Labs,” Northeast Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, Marriott Marquis Hotel, New York, 1 April, 2006.
• “The Saigon-Paris Connection and the Case For Marguerite Duras and Linda Lê as Colonized Exiles, 78th Annual Convention of the American Association of Teachers of French, Quebec Hilton Hotel, Quebec, 7 July, 2005.
• “State-of-the-Art Language Labs: Reaching the Hearts and Minds of Learners,” Massachusetts Foreign Language Association Annual Conference, Sturbridge Host Hotel, Sturbridge, MA 29 October, 2004.

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Teresa Marcelin
Part-Time Lecturer in Spanish
Contact: 617-627-5546| Email
Degrees: 1978, Licenciatura, Universidad de Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain. Philosophy and Letters, Major: Romance Language Philology
Expertise: Spanish Language
 

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Tamara Márquez-Raffetto
Part-Time Lecturer in Spanish
Contact: 617-627-5101| Email
Degrees: B.A. Spanish and French, California State University, Northridge; M.A. Spanish, California State University, Northridge; Ph.D. Spanish, Boston College
Expertise: Latin American studies, twentieth-century Latin American narrative, Golden Age literature

Selected Publications/Conferences:

• “Inverting the Paradigm: Preciosa’s Problematic Exemplarity,” Mester 25 (Spring 1996): 49-78.

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Amy Millay
Part-Time Lecturer in Spanish
Contact: 617-627-2723| Email
Degrees: M.A., M.Phil, Ph.D., Yale University
Expertise: Latin American Contemporary Literature

Selected Publications/Conferences:

• “The Songs and Stories of El Monte.” LASA 2006.
• Chair of panel on “Oral Traditions and Testimonial Writings.” LASA 2006.
• Voices from the fuente viva: the Effect of Orality in Twentieth-Century Spanish American Narrative. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2005.

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Adele Oppenheim
Part-Time Lecturer in Spanish
Contact: 617-627-2754 | Email
Degrees: M.A. Romance Languages, Harvard University
Expertise: foreign language teaching

 

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Katherine Risse
Part-Time Lecturer in Spanish
Contact: 617-627-5546| Email
Degrees: Ph.D., Boston College
Selected Publications/Conferences:

• “Revising a Matrimonial Life: An Alternative to the Conduct Book in María de Agreda’s Mística ciudad de Dios.” Modern Language Notes, Spring 2008.
• “Strategy of a Provincial Nun: Sor María’s Response.” CiberLetras 17 (2007)
• “Wives, Mothers and Widows on Instruction.” The Fourteenth Annual Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque Interdisciplinary Symposium: The Rule of Women. The University of Miami, Coral Gables, Fla., February 17-19, 2005.
• “Catarina de San Juan and the China Poblana: Spiritual Humility and Civil Obedience.” Confluencia 18 (2003): 70-80.
• “Following the Procession: Dialogue with the Significant Other in Elena Poniatowska’s ‘Hasta no verte Jesús mío.’” Romance Review 7 (1997): 45-52.

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Patricia T. Smith
Part-Time Instructor, Writing Workshop Instructor, Consultant and Reader for the College Board in AP Spanish
Contact: (617) 627-5545 | Email
Degrees: M Ed, Special Education, Bridgewater State College; MA in Spanish, Middlebury College
Expertise: Grammar and linguistics, pedagogy. National Endowment fellowships to investigate the Diaries of Christopher Columbus and Mexican Revolution.
Research interests: Language development in young children, comparative grammar of Romance Languages.

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Cheryl Tano
Part-Time Lecturer in Spanish
Contact: 617-627-5545| Email
Degrees: B.S., Salem State College; M.A., Boston College; Certificat de Langue Française, Université de Caen, France; ABD, Boston University.

Selected Publications/Conferences:

• Promenades: à travers le monde francophone.
• Espaces: rendez-vous avec le monde francophone.
• Boston University Conference on Child Language Development Proceedings 1997.

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