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Department: | Foreign Languages |
| Title: | Associate Professor, Director of the Honors Program, Coordinator of Foreign Languages |
| Background: | BA, The University of Chicago, 1991
MA, The University of Chicago, 1992
MA & MPhil, Yale University, 1994
PhD, Yale University, 1999
| Office: | Aquinas Hall, Room 234 |
| Phone: | (203) 401 - 4071 |
| Email: | catkins@albertus.edu |
| Courses: | - Escritoras latinoamericanas
- Masters of Latin American Literature
- Indepent Study on The Pink Tide
- Borges y sus precursores: Borges, Kafka y Poe
- 20th-century Latin American Film
- Siglo de Oro: Teatro y poesía
- Conversación avanzada y composición II
- Español Intermedio I y II
- Español Básico I y II
- Senior Seminar
- Don Quijote de la Mancha
- Independent Study on Don Quixote in translation
- Independent Study on Bilingual Education
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Coordinator of the Department of Foreign Languages, July 2012 - present
Director of the Honors Program, July 2010 – present
Admissions Committee, September 2012 – present
Cooperative Council (alternate), September 2012 - present
Strategic Planning Task Force Committee Member – May 2012 – present
Athletic Strategic Planning Committee, 2009 – present
Director of Retention, July 2010 – July 2011
Faculty Status Committee, September 2011 – 2012
Academic Policy Committee, 2008 – 2011
Sigma Delta Pi National Hispanic Honors Society, April 2009 – present
Spanish Club Moderator, 2008 – present
Academic Advisor, 2008 – present
Invited Professor Roberto González Echevarría to speak at the College on Don Quijote de la Mancha, 2009
Invited Professor Carlos Eire to speak as part of our celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month, "Waiting for Snow, Learning to Die: Confessions of a Wayward Historian," October 2011
"The Latino Experience in Connecticut," Moderator, September 2011 | Publications & Awards | Collaborated on The Oxford Book of Latin American Short Stories (1997) and A History of Cuban Baseball (1999) by Roberto González Echevarría. Translated Ricardo Güiraldes’s "El trenzador" for The Oxford Book of Latin American Short Stories (1997) Edited Ventanas, an intermediate text for Vista Higher Learning, 2002 Faculty advisor, Entérate, a student-run magazine at Suffolk University, 2003 – 2004 Member of Sigma Delta Pi national Hispanic Honors Society and National Collegiate Honors Council | | Professional Affiliations: | Coach, Special Olympics/Unified Sports, Amity High School, 2005 - present | |
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