Director of the Program (Director del Programa)

Dr. Andrea Colvin, Assistant Professor of Modern Foreign Languages Phone: 740-368-3682 • E-mail: arcolvin@owu.edu

Born and raised in northern Germany, Dr. Colvin came to the U.S. in 1995.  She graduated from the University of Delaware in 2002 with a B.A. in Spanish Education and earned her Ph.D. in Spanish from the University of California, Irvine in 2009.  She teaches courses in Spanish as well as in Latin American literature and culture.  Her area of specialization is 20^th century narrative from the Southern Cone, and she is particularly interested in the representation of political violence in post-dictatorial narrative, the child in literature and film and the representation of the nation/city in the Latin American novel.  She has published an interview with Mauricio Rosencof (Uruguay) as well as two articles on works by the same author.  She spent a semester in Granada, Spain, as an undergraduate student and has since traveled to Mexico, Chile, Argentina, Uruguay and Peru.

Previous Directors of the Salamanca Program

Dr. Juan Armando Rojas
Dr. Julián Arribas
Dr. Donald E. Lenfest
Dr. Sandra N. Harper