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Martine Fernandes Ph.D.
Ph.D. in French, University of California, Berkeley
Doctorat in French, Universite de Paris IV-Sorbonne
Agregation de lettres modernes
D.E.A. (M.A.) in French, Universite de Paris IV-Sorbonne
Licence (B.A.) in French, Universite de Paris IV-Sorbonne
Licence (B.A.) In Portuguese, Universite de Paris IV-Sorbonne
 Dr. Martine Fernandes is originally from France, near Paris.
She is a native speaker of French and Portuguese, and also speaks Spanish.
She received a PhD in French Literature & Language from the University
of Paris IV-Sorbonne and the University of California, Berkeley in 2002.
In 1994, she received the Agrégation in French Modern Literature.
Her research interests include: Francophone literatures, immigrant literatures,
Portuguese immigration in France (Literature and Film), transnationalism,
postcolonialism, cognitive linguistics, and women writers.
Recent publications include a book entitled
Les écrivaines francophones en liberté: Farida Belghoul, Maryse Condé,
Assia Djebar, Calixthe Beyala. Hybridité identitaire et métaphores cognitives
(Preface by Michel Laronde, Paris: L’Harmattan, 2007).
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Sophie Champigny-Hotel Ph.D.
Ph.D., University of Cincinnati
M. A. in French Literature, University of Cincinnati
Maîtrise de Sciences de l’Education, Université de Nancy 2
Licence de Sciences de l’Education, Culture et Communication, Université de Nancy 2
As a French native speaker, I grew up in the ancient Gallo-Roman city of Tours,
at the center of the famous Loire Valley Chateaux, well-recognized by millions of tourists
each year not only for its exquisite and unique gourmet cuisine and wines (Vouvray, Chinon,
Saint-Nicolas de Bourgueil, to name a few) but also for its famous French writers and philosophers
Rabelais, Ronsard et Balzac, Descartes, and Alfred de Vigny.
After receiving a Master’s degree in Education from the Université of Nancy II, France,
I was invited to teach at the Mount School, unique as the only Quaker senior girls' day and
boarding school in the United Kingdom. It was here that I developed methods based on an interactive
approach and the classroom creation of everyday Francophone situations. In addition, I strongly
encouraged my students to enroll in a study-abroad program or/and to travel in a French-speaking
country for a certain amount of time. They invariably returned with a growing self-confidence,
happily surprised about how well-prepared in French language and culture they had already become
through our classroom experiences.
Following a fulfilling teaching experience in England, I moved to the United States, where I completed
a Master’s degree in French Literature at the University of Cincinnati and was awarded a Taft Fellowship.
After completion of my Ph.D. in 2001, I became a faculty member at Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, Florida,
where I continued to organize and lead French language immersion programs in Tours, Paris, and Martinique.
After being a French teacher in the International Baccalaureate Program at St. Petersburg High School,
St. Petersburg, Florida 2007-2009, I became an Adjunct Professor at the University of South Florida in
St. Petersburg, Florida, where I fully enjoy teaching all levels of French/ Francophone classes.
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Narciso J. Hidalgo Ph.D.
Narciso J. Hidalgo, Ph.D. in Latin American Studies and Caribbean Culture Indiana University, Indiana.
M. A. in Hispanic Literature, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri.
B. A. in Art History, University of Havana, Cuba.
 Narciso J. Hidalgo is an Associate Professor in Spanish in the Department of Languages, Literatures and Writing at the University of South Florida, St. Petersburg.
Dr. Hidalgo has expertise in 19th and 20th centuries Latin American and Hispanic Caribbean studies. Recently he finished the book entitled Choteo. Irreverencia y humor en la cultura cubana, that will be published in 2011.
Also he published a book entitled Under the Sunrise: Latinos in Japan in collaboration with Rafael Reyes-Ruiz, Ph.D., Associate Professor in Anthropology, (Editorial Fridaura Jun. 2007).
Dr. Hidalgo was a guest editor in the Afro-Hispanic Review (Vol. 26, No. 1 Spring 2007) where he published a monograph regarding the African religion in the New World.
In 2002, he was awarded a Post Doctoral Mellon Fellowship and taught for two years in Oberlin College, where he organized and participated in several activities related to his area of expertise. His essays focus on Latin American and Caribbean literature cultural studies, as well as Cuban popular culture. His articles have been published in the Monographic Review, Hopscotch, Cuadernos del Lazarillo (Spain), Encuentro de la cultura cubana (Spain), Negritud, Revista Caribe, Otro Lunes. Revista Hispanoamericana de Cultura (Online), and Afro-Hispanic Review, where he served as one of the members of the editorial board. He is also member of the editorial board of the literary journal Negritud.
Dr. Hidalgo is working on a research project entitled Nation and Discourses: The Voice of the Subaltern that embraces the social and economic development of Cuban negros and mestizos in the 18th and 19th centuries.
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Eric Alvarez Ph.D.
Ph.D. in Spanish, Florida State University
M.A. in Spanish, University of South Florida, Tampa
B.S. in Business Administration, University of Puerto Rico
Dr. Eric V. Alvarez was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico. He graduated from the University of Puerto Rico
where he received his Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration. He then received a Master's
degree in Spanish from the University of South Florida in 1987 while teaching Spanish courses for USF Tampa.
In that same year, Dr. Alvarez founded the Spanish Language Institute in Tampa, Florida. This private school
specialized in various levels of Spanish education focusing mainly on career professionals who were interested
in learning a second language. In 1998, he was conferred the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Spanish from
The Florida State University specializing in Spanish Golden Age Literature. Dr.Alvarez is the author of the
article "Cosmetics in Medieval and Renaissance Spain" in the Feminist Encyclopedia of Spanish Literature.
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Paulina Leyton M.A.
M.A. in Spanish, University of South Florida, Tampa
B.A. in Spanish at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte
Paulina Leyton came to the USA as an exchange student in High School from Santiago, Chile.
She successfully completed the program. Later on, she came back to North Carolina to study
at Queens College in Charlotte (College of Business). This experience led her to work for
Multinational Corporations in the field of International Business (Exports/Imports) in Latin
America and Spain. After many years in the Corporate world, she fulfilled her true passion
-studying the Spanish Language, Culture, and Literature, and obtained her B.A. in Spanish
at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Subsequently, at UNCC, she was appointed
to teach Spanish II. In 2002 Ms. Leyton came to USF in Tampa and finished her Master's degree
in Spanish in 2004. During these years she was a Graduate Spanish Instructor.
As an adjunct professor, she has taught Beginners Spanish I and II, Intermediate Spanish III
and IV and Spanish for Business and International Trade I. at USF Tampa, Hillsborough
Community College, Schiller International University and currently at USF St. Petersburg.
In the Summer of 2006 she was appointed to assist the Director of the USF Study Abroad Program in Costa Rica.
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