Category Archives: Faculty News

Hispanic Studies Faculty Focus, December 2023: Dr. Carmen Grace

Hispanic Studies Faculty Focus, December 2023: Dr. Carmen Grace For its last Faculty Focus of 2023, Hispanic Studies is fortunate to be able to spotlight Associate Professor, Dr. Carmen Grace. Arriving at the College of Charleston in the fall of 2011 with a doctorate in “Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque Literature from the prestigious Ohio State […]

Hispanic Studies Faculty Focus, November 2023: Ms. Hunter Newman

Hispanic Studies Faculty Focus, November 2023: Ms. Hunter Newman Hispanic Studies’ Faculty Focus for November of 2023 is Ms. Hunter Newman. Ms. Newman, who joined Hispanic Studies’ community of talented professors as an Adjunct Lecturer in Spanish in the fall of 2023, comes to the department with an impressive educational background, which includes a B.A. […]

HISP Faculty Focus, October 2023: Dr. Carl Wise

  HISP Faculty Focus, October 2023: Dr. Carl Wise Hispanic Studies’ Faculty Focus for October 2023 is Dr. Carl Wise. Dr. Wise, who received his doctorate in Romance Languages from the University of Georgia, has been a permanent member of the Department of Hispanic Studies since 2015. Since that time, he has parlayed his research […]

Hispanic Studies Faculty Focus, September 2023: Dr. Joseph Weyers

  Hispanic Studies Faculty Focus, September 2023: Dr. Joseph Weyers For the month of September 2023, Hispanic Studies is proud to be able to spotlight Dr. Joseph Weyers as its Faculty Focus feature. Since arriving at the College of Charleston in 1995 with an M.A. in Latin American Studies from the University of New Mexico […]

Hispanic Studies’ Faculty Focus, February 2023: Prof. Elizabeth Cox

Hispanic Studies’ Faculty Focus, February 2023: Prof. Elizabeth Cox Prof. Elizabeth Cox is Hispanic Studies’ Faculty Focus for February 2023. A native of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Prof. Cox was raised in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where she received her Bachelor of Arts in Education in Early Child Development from the Instituto Superior de Profesorado de […]

Hispanic Studies Faculty Focus, December 2022: Dr. Ezequiel Durand-López

Hispanic Studies Faculty Focus, December 2022: Dr. Ezequiel Durand-López A recent graduate with a Ph.D. in Bilingualism and Second Language Acquisition from Rutgers University, Dr. Durand-López also has received degrees from the Universidad Nebrija in Madrid, Spain (an M.A. in Teaching Spanish as a Foreign Language) and from the Universidad del Salvador in Buenos Aires, […]

Hispanic Studies Faculty Focus, November 2022: Prof. Adelaida Bidot

HISP’s Faculty Focus for November of 2022 is Prof. Adelaida Bidot. An impressive member of Hispanic Studies’ impressive faculty lineup since the fall of 2020, Adelaida received her education at the Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico—first at the undergraduate and then the graduate level—where she completed a Bachelor’s and then a Master’s Degree in […]

Hispanic Studies Faculty Focus, April 2022: Dr. Nadia Avendaño

Hispanic Studies Faculty Focus, April 2022 The final HISP Faculty Focus of 2021-2022 features Dr. Nadia Avendaño. Dr. Avendaño–a graduate of the University of California, Davis (B.A. in Spanish and French), as well as of the University of Arizona (from which she earned an M.A. and a Ph.D. in 20th Century Latin American Literature) first […]

Hispanic Studies Faculty Focus, March 2022: Prof. Eileen Shields

Hispanic Studies Faculty Focus, March 2022: Prof. Eileen Shields Prof. Eileen Shields is Hispanic Studies’ Faculty Focus for the month of March, 2022. A graduate of the College of Charleston (B.A.) as well as of The Citadel (M.Ed. with a minor in Spanish), Prof. Eileen Shields has had an impressive academic formation, which also includes […]

Hispanic Studies Faculty Focus, February 2022: Dr. Colleen Moorman Dr. Colleen Moorman is Hispanic Studies’ Faculty Focus for February of 2022. Dr. Colleen Moorman—who graduated from the prestigious Georgetown University with a Ph.D. in Spanish Applied Linguistics in 2017 (completing a dissertation on Individual differences and linguistic factors in the development of mid vowels in […]