Caren Trowbridge

Academic Credentials

BA Art History, Portland State University
BA French Literature, l’Université de Poitiers, France
MA French Language and Literatures, Portland State University

Bio

Caren Trowbridge is a professor of French with nearly 20 years experience teaching at the university, corporate and government levels.  She has taught in both American and European schools and received the GWATFL (Greater Washington Association of Teachers of Foreign Language) award for best presentation of classroom pedagogy (2009).  Ms. Trowbridge has also collaborated on several academic translations, namely of the life and works of St. Vincent de Paul with the Société de St. Vincent de Paul in Paris (2007).  Her academic interests include Emile Zola and social (in)justice of the late 19th-century, as well as works written under the German occupation of France from 1941-1944.

Professor Colley-Trowbridge was awarded the 2020 School of Design, Arts, and Humanities prize for excellence in Non-Tenure Teaching.

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Barbara French

Academic Credentials

PhD in Hispanic Literature, El Colegio de México. MA in Letras Mexicanas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Biography

Dra. French graduated with a BS in Business Admin from the University of Mary Washington in 2010. Upon graduation she moved abroad to Mexico City, Mexico where she went on to study a MA in Mexican Literature, specializing in Colonial Literature and Identity Studies. She worked for 2 years as a research associate at El Colegio de México under the direction of Dra. María Méndez in the Project :La biblioteca Novohispana. In 2019 she graduated from El Colegio de México with a PhD in Hispanic Literature, specializing in Literatura Antigua.

Other Information

Teaching Area

Spanish language and literature, communication and cultural studies

Research Interests

Colonial literature, Early Modern literature, Creole Identity in literature, Spanish Inquistion

Publications

2017 “Ecos medievales: transformaciones y orígenes del tópico de la translatio imperii en dos textos de la literatura guadalupana novohispana”, Prolija Memoria 1 (2017), pp.99-115. 2014 “El nacimiento de la nación criolla: mito, historia e identidad en la narrativa de Miguel Sánchez”, Revista Destiempos 37, México, 2014, pp. 58-75. 2013 “La invasión napoleónica a través de la escritura oracular novohispana: el caso de La transmigración de la iglesia de Guadalupe, Revista Aequitas, España, 2013. 2012 “Las herejías místicas de Ana Rodríguez de Castro y Agustina Josefa de Jesús Vera Villavicencio Palacios: prácticas, motivos y orígenes”, Revista de la Inquisición (numero 16), España, 2012. 2011 “Muertos y Maltratados: Los personajes infantiles de Nájera y la crítica social”, Decires, México, 2011. […]

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