| Title: |
Professor
Chair-Department of World Languages. Literatures & Cultures |
| Dept: | World Languages, Literatures, and Cultures |
| Office: | RT 1633 |
| Phone: | 216-687-4645 |
| Email: | A.MEDINARIVERA@csuohio.edu |
| Address: | 2121 Euclid Ave. RT 1633, Cleveland, OH 44115 |
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| Education: | ||||||||
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Ph.D., University of Southern California, 1997
M.A., Stony Brook University, 1990 | ||||||||
| Brief Bio: | ||
| Antonio Medina-Rivera, Professor of Spanish. Originally from Caguas, Puerto Rico, Dr. Medina-Rivera received his BA in Hispanic Studies from the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras. His MA is from SUNY at Stony Brook, and PhD from University of Southern California. Dr. Medina-Rivera's fields of study include sociolinguistics and cultural studies with special emphasis on Spanish in the US, stylistic variation, food and literature, Rosario Ferré, and US Latino writers. He is the Director of Cultural Crossings, the coordinator of the Symposium Crossing Over, and the coordinator of Graduate Studies in Spanish. | ||
| Research Interests: | ||
| sociolinguistics and cultural studies with special emphasis on Spanish in the US, stylistic variation, food and literature, Rosario Ferré, and US Latino writers | ||
| Teaching Areas: | ||
| Introduction to Spanish Linguistics
Spanish Sociolinguistics and Dialectology History of the Spanish Language Hispanic Film/Latin America through Film South America Literature and Culture US Hispanics Literature and Culture Teaching Grammar Teaching Literature and Culture Caribbean Literature | ||
| Professional Affiliations: | ||
| ACTFL
LASSO | ||