I hold a PhD and Masters from the Universit? Paris 13 and both my dissertations were written in French. I taught at Andr?s Bello Catholic University in Caracas, Venezuela, and currently I am faculty at Loyola University New Orleans, where I teach Spanish (from basic to conversational), French, and Latin American Studies (literature, music history, popular culture, and contemporary Latin American journalism).

I am passionate about languages and their capacity to broaden our reflexes and world...