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Dr. Alva Cellini
Professor of Modern Languages
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Karash-Eastman, Jennifer

Jennifer Karash-Eastman
TITLES/RESPONSIBILITIES Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish
ACADEMIC SCHOOL School of Arts & Sciences
ACADEMIC DEPARTMENT Modern Languages
CONTACT INFORMATION Office Phone: (716) 375-2216
Email: jeastman@sbu.edu
OFFICE LOCATION Plassmann Hall 206-G6
COURSES TAUGHT
  • Introductory Spanish (SPAN 101 & SPAN 102)
  • Intermediate Spanish (SPAN 201 & SPAN 202)
  • Spanish Conversation & Composition (SPAN 301)
  • Advanced Spanish Grammar & Composition (SPAN 303)
ACADEMIC DEGREES
  • Doctor of Philosophy, Comparative Literature, University of South Carolina, 2015
  • Graduate Certificate in Women's & Gender Studies, University of South Carolina, 2015
  • Master of Arts in Spanish Literature & Linguistics, Florida State University, 2004
  • Bachelor of Arts in Spanish Literature & Linguistics with a minor in Latin American & Caribbean Studies, Florida State University, 2002
     
OTHER EDUCATION
PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND
  • 2014-2017, Learning Specialist, EMC Publishing
  • 2008-2013, Lecturer of Spanish, Coastal Carolina University
  • 2007-2008, Spanish Instructor, Horry-Georgetown Technical College Early College
  • 2005-2007, Department Chair, Spanish Instructor, Buffalo Seminary School
     
ACCOMPLISHMENTS     Awards
  • 2014 Russel J. & Dorothy S. Bilinski Dissertation Fellowship, College of Arts & Sciences, Department of Languages, Literatures & Cultures, University of South Carolina
  • 2013 Harriot Hampton Faucette Award, College of Arts & Sciences, Women’s & Gender Studies, University of South Carolina
  • 2004 Dorothy Hoffman Research Grant, College of Arts & Sciences, Department of Modern Languages, Florida State University
    Publications
  • The Trialectics of Transnational Women’s Literature in the Writing of Edwidge Danticat & Julia Alvarez. Dissertation, University of South Carolina, 2015. ProQuest, 2015. SC 14096.
  • Maria Clara Bingemer: “Women in the Future of the Theology of Liberation,” in Feminist Writings from Ancient Times to the Modern World: A Global Sourcebook and History, Ed. Tiffany K. Wayne, ABC-CLIO Press, 2011 (653-655). 
  • Rafael Castillo de Matamoros: “Un viaje a través de la oscuridad” (A Journey Through Darkness) in Armas y Letras, Literary Magazine of the Autonomous University of Nuevo León, Mexico, v. 36, 2002 (38-40).
     
TEACHING PHILOSOPHY
CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS/PROJECTS
  • second language acquisition theory & educational technology
  • migrant writing
  • poetry translation
  • women's studies
  • gender theory & social justice activism 
PERSONAL INTERESTS/COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT
  • Outreach & Engagement Committee Member, Canticle Farm, Allegany, N.Y.
  • Volunteer at the Warming House, Olean, N.Y.
  • Volunteer for MoveOn.org.
WEBSITE LINKS Twitter: @jen eastman

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