Luisa-Maria Rojas-Rimachi
Senior Lecturer in Spanish
EdD (Language, Literacy and Culture) University of Massachusetts Amherst; M.A. Etudes Litteraires, Universite du Quebec a Montreal; B.A. Spanish Linguistics and Literatures, Pontifical Catholic University of Peru
Spanish Language at the Intermediate Level
(585) 275-7112
209 Lattimore Hall
Research/Writing interests
Luisa-Maria Rojas-Rimachi has worked for a number of years teaching a wide range of courses including issues of language, culture, and literature. She is particularly interested in topics of language ideology in higher education, foreign language learning, aesthetic judgment in cultures in contact, and discourse analysis. On the other hand, she has written about literature as a fundamental window for cultural learning.
Recent publications
- Designer, editor and director of the STORY-WRITING PROJECT: Wednesdays in the Fall, Adventures and Surprises, three booklets of bilingual stories were published with the collaboration of the elementary school students from Woodland Academy and Clark University in Worcester, MA, Fall 2009, 2010 and 2011.
- Literature as a Window for Cultural Learning : an example, to be presented at NECLAS, November 2012, Yale University, New Haven
Teaching
Spanish Language at the Intermediate Level