As we say good-bye to Senior Lecturer Maritza Meléndez-López after ten years in the department, we welcome Alison Guzmán.
Alison Guzmán earned her B.A. in English, Spanish Literatures, and Psychology from Stanford University in June 1999. Before moving later to Spain where she received her Masters and Ph.D. from the University of Salamanca, cum laude, in 2012, she was a high school Spanish teacher in the Boston Area and also spent significant time in Ecuador teaching English as a second language. She comes to us from Providence College where she taught all levels of Spanish and across all levels.
Much of Dr. Guzmán’s research explores historic memory of the Spanish Civil War in contemporary society, and literature. She has published widely in Spanish on this subject, and is frequently invited to present her work at academic conferences in the U.S. and abroad.