Faculty

Adriana Amante is professor at the Universidad de Buenos Aires, where she teaches 20th Century Argentine Literature. She holds a PhD in Literature from Universidad de Buenos Aires. She also holds a research post at the Instituto de Literatura Hispanoamericana and is Academic Director of the Escuela Superior de Creativos Publicitarios. She is a member of the editorial board of the journal Las Ranas dedicated to the arts, texts and translation.

She has been Visiting Researcher at New York University, University of London, and Universidade Nova de Lisboa. She co-authored Absurdo Brasil. Polémicas en la cultura brasileña, which won an honorable mention in the 2005 Pan-Hispanic Prizes for Specialized Translation from Unión Latina. She also translated from Portuguese to Spanish Fernando Pessoa's El Banquero Anarquista. With a subsidy from Academia Brasileña de Letras and Centro de Estudios Brasileños de Buenos Aires, she translated Machado de Assis’ Memorias póstumas de Bras Cubas. Her essays have been published in various anthologies and academic journals anthologies, and her research, focused on Argentine and Brazilian literature, has been funded by Fondo Nacional de las Artes (Argentina), Instituto Camões, and the UBA.

aa71@nyu.edu

Pablo Ansolabehere earned his PhD in Literature at the Universidad de Buenos Aires. He teaches at the University of Buenos Aires and at the University of San Andrés (Buenos Aires). He is a researcher at the University of Buenos Aires on Argentine Literature. He taught Latin American Literature at Wesleyan University, CT, (2000-2002, 2005-2006) and at the University of Georgia, GA, (2010).

Ansolabehere has published several articles on Argentine and Latin American Literature in books and journals as Revista Iberoamericana (Pittsburgh), Anales de la Literatura Hispanoamericana (Madrid), Mora, Revista del Instituto Interdisciplinario de Estudios de Género (Buenos Aires), Entrepasados. Revista de Historia (Buenos Aires), among others. He is the author of two books, Literatura y anarquismo en Argentina (1879-1910) (2011) and Oratoria y evocación: un episodio perdido en la literatura argentina (2012).

pa62@nyu.edu

Daniel Aromí holds a Ph.D. in Economics from University of Maryland at College Park and a Master in Economics from Universidad de San Andrés. 

Former Financial Economist at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Researcher at IIEP-Baires UBA-Conicet.

Research interests: Macroeconomic and financial dynamics. Financial market anomalies.

Teaching areas: Macroecomics. Game Theory. Behavioral Economics

da88@nyu.edu
 

Susana Benedek obtained her degree in Architecture from Universidad de Buenos Aires and also is certified in Teaching of Spanish as a Foreign Language by Fundación Ortega y Gasset. She is a M.A. Candidate in Teaching Spanish as a Foreign Language, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (Argentina).

A third-generation Argentine-Hungarian, Susana Benedek remains active in Buenos Aires’ Hungarian community. She is a regular columnist in Magyar Hírlap, a local Hungarian-Spanish newspaper; and she produces, directs, and conducts Hungría Cerca, a weekly radio program. She has published Beszéljünk magyarul 1, 2, 3 - Let's speak Hungarian 1, 2, 3 (2004 and 2005), Írjunk magyarul 1 - Let's write in Hungarian I (2006), and Az Óperenciás-tengeren is tul, reflections on Hungarian language, (2017). She also teaches an Intensive Course in Hungarian in Santiago de Chile, at the Hungarian Cultural Association. She has also been involved in formal instruction as a scout leader, conducting or lecturing at leadership training courses in Argentina, Brazil, Austria, and the United States. She has illustrated the girl-scout handbooks Leánycserkészek könyve 1 (1991) and Leánycserkészek könyve 2 (1998).

She joined NYU Buenos Aires in 2008. She also coordinates cultural outings organized by Student Life.

susana.benedek@nyu.edu

Writer, received a degree in Literature (Licenciatura en Letras) from Universidad de Buenos Aires in 1993. Since then, she has done research and teaching in the area of writing skills: professional, academic and creative writing as well. She has developed several training programs on Professional Writing Techniques and Effective Oratory for educational institutions and international companies from Argentina and Latin America. Currently, she teaches Creative Writing and Argentine Literature at Universidad Nacional de las Artes (UNA). Pía Bouzas joined NYU Buenos Aires in 2009 and she has also taught Spanish as a foreign language at different universities in Argentina.

She has published several books of short stories: El mundo era un lugar maravilloso (2004), Extranjeras (2011), El Polaco (2013), Las acrobacias del pez (2015) and Un largo río (2015), and has participated in anthologies published in Argentina and Spain: Buenos Aires no duerme (1999), Cuentos (2003), Cuentos olímpicos (2003), Historias de nuestros mayores (2005), Verso y reverso (2011), Gascón 450 (2014), and Antología del nuevo cuento argentino (2017). From 2009 to 2012, she edited the virtual magazine Cuatrocuentos, focused on contemporary Latin American short stories.

pb98@nyu.edu

Cecilia Inés Calero began her college education in the year 2000 at the Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales-Universidad de Buenos Aires (Buenos Aires, Argentina) and in February of 2006 she obtained her degree in Biological Sciences. During those years she worked at the Chemistry Department and the Physiology and Molecular Biology Department as undergraduate student.

In 2006, she received a scholarship from the Argentinean National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET) and began her doctoral thesis studies at the Instituto de Investigaciones en Ingeniería Genética y Biología Molecular, where, in March 2011, she obtained her PhD in Biological Sciences after studying the redox modulation of inhibitory neuronal receptors.

After finishing her PhD in Biological Sciences, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Cecilia got a post doctoral scholarship to start the project entitled “Little Teachers” at the Integrative Neuroscience Laboratory under the supervision of Dr. Mariano Sigman. During her postdoc, she became more and more interested in how the ability to teach develops during the first years of life without the need for formal education.

Dr. Calero currently has a position as a researcher appointed by the CONICET and she is the co-director of the Neuroscience lab, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella (UTDT), where she continues the “Little Teachers” project.

She is also a professor at the School of Psychology (UBA), the School of Education (UTDT) and the School of Educational Policy and Educational Management, (UTDT).

calero@nyu.edu

Pablo Carrasco received his degree in Literature (Licenciatura en Letras) from Universidad Católica Argentina (UCA) and his Masters’ in Teaching Methodologies in Spanish as a Foreign Language from Universidad de Jaén (Spain). He holds a PHD from Universidad Católica Argentina. He joined NYUBA in 2013. He is the Director of Spanish as a Foreign Language Department at Universidad Católica Argentina, where he also coordinates the Diplomatura in Teaching Spanish as a Foreign and Second Language. Also he serves as Consulting Director in the Department of Foreign Languages at Instituto Universitario de Ciencias de la Salud Fundación H. Barceló, an institution devoted to Health and Medicine teaching, where he led research focused on communication matters in medicine, specifically in an intercultural environment. As a result, he produced a book of Spanish for health care professionals, currently in press.

He was a researcher at CONICET (National Research Council in Argentina), where he studied culture and Spanish language use in the Southern United States. He has published several articles on these subjects in national and international journals.

pac11@nyu.edu

Vera Cerqueiras holds a degree in Literature  (Licenciatura en Letras) from Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA) and a Masters’ in the Teaching of Spanish as a Second Language from Universidad de Barcelona. She is also a  PhD Candidate in Social Sciences, Universidad Nacional de Quilmes. She is Spanish Coordinator for CIEE-FLASCO's international study program in Argentina and is a teacher trainer in Spanish as a Second Language, leading workshops, lectures, and courses. She joined NYU Buenos Aires in 2008.

Vera Cerqueiras has served as an expert in many international projects for the sharing of academic and technical assistance in her specialization. From 1999 to 2008 she was the Academic Coordinator of the Spanish as a Foreign Language section of the University of Buenos Aires’ Language Institute. Her research focuses on the relationship between language and culture and on the development of didactic material for non-native speakers. For her PhD, she is researching language representations in teaching methods.

vc36@nyu.edu

Nicolás Comini is Director of the Master and BA Degree Programs in International Relations (Universidad del Salvador, Argentina). He is doctor in Social Sciences from the Universidad de Buenos Aires. He holds a MA in Latin American Integration (Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero) and BA in International Relations from Universidad del Salvador.  His research interests today are in the field of the US-Latin American relation, regional integration and the international security. His books include suRamericanizados: la integración regional desde la Alianza al kirchnerismo (2016), Políticas Públicas regionales. Un abordaje sectorial de la Integración Latinoamericana (2016) and De cadencias y disonancias, representaciones alternativas de la integración regional en el siglo XXI: América Latina, Asia y Europa del Este (2014). He has been granted by the Deutsche Akademische Austauschdienst (DAAD), the Johns Hopkins University’s Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), the Università degli Studi di Torino and the United States Department of State and Fulbright Commission.

nmc8@nyu.edu

Edgardo Dieleke is a professor, filmmaker, editor and cultural critic. He earned his PhD at Princeton University in Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Cultures (2013). He directed with Daniel Casabé the films Cracks de nácar (2013) and The Exact Shape of the Islands (2014). He teaches at NYU BA and he also teaches Literature and Film Studies at Universidad de San Andrés in Buenos Aires. He is Academic Coordinator of the Program in Brazilian Culture, at Universidad de San Andrés. He is chief editor of the bilingual film magazine Las Naves as well as editor in charge of the essay collection of the publishing house Tenemos las máquinas. He has published articles in journals from Argentina, UK, Brazil and Spain.

As a scholar, he has published several articles on mass culture, literature and film studies in some of the most prestigious journals in Latin American Studies. He has also edited with Paola Cortés Rocca and Claudia Soria the book Políticas del sentimiento. El peronismo y la construcción de la Argentina moderna (2010). As a filmmaker, he focuses on making documentaries and co-directed with Daniel Casabé Cracks de nácar (released in 2013) and The Exact Shape of the Islands (released in 2014). Both films have been exhibited in several film festivals and have been very well received.

ed69@nyu.edu

Betina González is an Argentine fiction writer. She holds a PhD. in Hispanic Literatures from the University of Pittsburgh and a MFA in Bilingual Creative Writing from the University of Texas at El Paso. She teaches Creative Writing at the University of Buenos Aires, where she also works as a researcher on the practices of reading and writing in different social contexts. In 2006 she was awarded the Clarín Prize for Arte menor, her first book. Among the panelists was the Nobel laureate, José Saramago, who praised the novel a “work of major art”. That same year, the Argentine Endowment for the Arts awarded her a prize for her collection of short stories, Juegos de playa. She has also published several articles on literary criticism, and a book on literature and morals in Nineteenth century Latin America (Conspiraciones de esclavos y animales fabulosos, IILI, 2016). In 2012, her second novel, Las poseídas, was awarded the Tusquets Prize, which has established her internationally as one of the most important new voices in Latin American literature. Her last novel, América alucinada (Tusquets, 2016), is dystopia that takes place in an imaginary city of the USA, and deals with the lost of social bounds in contemporary capitalism.

bsg5@nyu.edu

Hernán Guastalegnanne holds a Masters’ in Education, Modern Foreign Languages, from Kings College, University of London, a certificate in Spanish as a Foreign Language from Universidad de Buenos Aires and a certificate in Teaching Spanish as a Second Language, Teaching Languages for Business and On Line Teaching from International House World Organisation (London, UK). He joined NYUBA in 2016. He is a lecturer at Universidad Tecnológica Nacional, Regional Avellaneda, where he is the content designer and online tutor for the teacher training program Diplomatura en la Enseñanza de Español como Lengua Segunda o Extranjera. He is a former lecturer for Language and Latin American Culture and Current Affairs at the London School of Economics and Political Science, University of London. He is the Academic Coordinator for SEA (Language Institutes Association of Argentina) and a member of the academic committee for the Congresos Internacionales de Turismo Idiomático (I, II, III, IV, V and VI). He  is the author of 48 Juegos para la clase de ELE, a book on games for the Spanish class, and Bueno, entonces… , a self-study multimedia Spanish course for levels A1-A2, specially designed for iPhone and iPod touch. He has also written several articles on language, learning and teaching methodology that have been published and are available on line. He is the founder of Diversión ELE, publishers and distributors of games for language teaching.

hernan.g@nyu.edu

Guido Herzovich holds a PhD in Latin American Cultures from Columbia University, where he has taught Latin American cinema and literature, and a B.A. in Literary Theory from the University of Buenos Aires. Has been a visiting researcher at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS, Paris) and the Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut (Berlin), and is now a researcher at CONICET, Argentina’s national research agency. As a film critic, he was a regular contributor to Haciendo Cine and Inrockuptibles, among other publications. He co-edits El Ansia. Revista de literatura argentina. He co-wrote the script for Zainichi (2011), a medium-length fiction film directed by Federico Pintos, and co-directed a medium-length documentary on the making of Diego Lerman’s award-winning film Tan de repente (2008). 

gh55@nyu.edu

Martin Langsam holds a degree in Sociology; with a minor in Economic Sociology from the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) He then did postgraduate studies in Economics and Public Policy (Torcuato di Tella University, Argentina). In 2002 he obtained his MSc in Public Policy in Latin America at Oxford University, United Kingdom. He then continued his studies for the PhD in Political Science at Oxford University until 2007 (dissertation pending).

He has been a consultant for several international organizations (WB, IDB, UNDP, ECLAC), developing his tasks in the national public sphere (National Institute of Public Administration, Ministry of Economy and Public Finance and Ministry of Health). He has also participated in several research projects in the United Kingdom (Oxford University-European Commission and Fischer Family Trust) and in Argentina (Fundación YPF-Universidad de San Andrés)

Since 2010 he is a full time researcher, professor and Secretary of Science and Technology at Isalud University. From this institution he has developed research and consulting projects on public health issues in collaboration with different agencies and programs in Argentina (Plan Nacer,  Programa Remediar, Health Economics Office at the Ministry of Health, Health Promotion and Prevention of Non-communicable diseases at the Ministry of Health, the Mercosur Health Policy Observatory, the National Health Research Commission and the National Cancer Institute.

ml6060@nyu.edu

Mariano López Seoane earned a Ph. D. in Latin America Literature from New York University in 2010. He currently teaches Latin American literature and cultural studies at NYU and UNTREF, where he is also the academic coordinator of the Centre for Gender and Sexuality. Current research areas focus on the cultures of sexual dissidence and queer studies as well as on drug culture in Latin American literature and the arts. Among his more recent publications: “Metonimia y constelación: el arte latinoamericano frente a la narcomáquina” (in Argentine journal def-ghi), and “La imposibilidad de ser fiel: Victoria Ocampo y la traducción” (in Argentine magazine Cuadernos del Sur).

mls379@nyu.edu

NYUBA Spanish Language Coordinator

Silvia Luppino received her degree in Literature and Linguistics (Licenciatura en Letras) from Universidad de Buenos Aires, and a postgraduate certification as "Experto en Enseñanza de Español como Lengua Extranjera" from Universidad Antonio de Nebrija (Spain). She is a M.A. Candidate in Language Management, Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero

She has been working in international education for over twenty years. She has taught Spanish at public and private universities since 1991 and has also coordinated the Spanish Department of Language Institute at Universidad de Buenos Aires from 1998 to 2002. In addition she has served as the Academic Coordinator of Spanish for Refugees, a program run by Universidad de Buenos Aires and the United Nations Higher Commissioner for Refugees, from 1998 to 2009, in which she also taught Spanish for refugees and for Eastern European immigrants. Recently, she has been teaching Spanish for Syrian refugees at Universidad Católica Argentina (UCA), and leading conferences on this subject.

Silvia Luppino also taught Linguistics and Academic Writing to undergraduate students at Universidad de Buenos Aires and directed the collection Clásicos Argentinos Original/Adaptación (Editorial Voces del Sur), a series of classic literary works by Argentinian writers including didactic material for Spanish students.

Her areas of interest are the relationship between language and culture, intercultural education, language policies, Spanish for migrants and refugees, and the development of didactic material for non-native and heritage speakers.

Silvia joined NYUBA in 2008. She teaches the Argentina Today course and also the Spanish for Lawyers and Spanish for Social Workers courses for graduate students.

snl3@nyu.edu

Jorgelina Loza is a Sociologist and holds a PhD in Social Sciences (Universidad de Buenos Aires) and a Master’s degree in Sociology of Culture (Universidad Nacional de San Martín). She is a researcher with broad experience in fieldwork in Argentina and abroad, working with social organizations in the development of action projects. She is professor of FLACSO Argentina, UBA, USAL and NYU BA. Her research areas are national identities, Latin American identity and transnational collective action experiences. She has published about collective action, identities, nation and social movements.

jml19@nyu.edu

Florencia Malbrán is a faculty member at New York University in Buenos Aires, and was Craig M. Cogut Visiting Professor in Latin American and Caribbean Studies at Brown University in Spring 2017. She holds a Ph.D. from Rosario National University, Argentina, and a M.A. from the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, New York, where she was a Bruce T. Halle Family Foundation Fellow. Specializing in Latin American art history, contemporary art, curatorial studies, and critical theory, Malbrán has served on the faculties of NYU’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study in New York City and Universidad de San Andrés in Buenos Aires.

Also a curator, she has organized exhibitions in Argentina, the United States, Canada, Brazil, Colombia, and Paraguay. She has been in residence in France, Switzerland, and Spain, and was the Hilla Rebay International Fellow at the Guggenheim Museums in New York, Bilbao, and Venice. She has held curatorial positions at the Museum of Modern Art in Buenos Aires and the Pinacoteca do Estado in São Paulo.

Her shows have been reviewed in Clarín and La Nación in Argentina, O Globo in Brazil, El Tiempo in Colombia, and Artforum in the United States. Selected catalog writing includes essays on Guillermo Kuitca and on Pablo Siquier for Argentina’s La Nación book series on seminal national artists, on Ernesto Neto for the Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, and on Ragnar Kjartansson for the Icelandic Pavilion at the 53rd Venice Biennale. 

fmm234@nyu.edu

Guadalupe Molina has a degree in Literature and Linguistics (Licenciatura en Letras) from Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA). She joined NYU Buenos Aires in 2008. She also works as a Spanish instructor at Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (CIEE-FLACSO), where she is administrator for the COPI exam. She taught Psycholinguistics at Universidad de Buenos Aires and designed an online Spanish course for Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero (UNTREF). She is currently an M.A. student at FADU (UBA's Faculty of Architecture and Design) and she is writing her dissertation on the use of images in Spanish textbooks.  

gim1@nyu.edu

Santiago O’Donnell is former L.A. Times and Washington Post staff writer and a graduate of Notre Dame (BA Intl. Rel.) and USC (MA Intl. Jour.). Currently working as the foreign editor of Página 12 newspaper in Argentina and as director of the Journalism Masters program at Universidad de Buenos Aires, he is the author of three books and numerous articles published different media outlets around the world.

so48@nyu.edu

Dr Cecilia Palmeiro specializes on contemporary Latin American cultural studies, with special attention to Argentinean and Brazilian literature and gender studies. She holds a Ph.D. in Spanish & Portuguese Languages and Cultures, Princeton University. Her main interests are critical theory, intellectual history and the relation between art and politics. She has published a range of articles on contemporary Argentinean and Brazilian literature and gender issues, and translated contemporary Brazilian literature into Spanish. She has published Desbunde y felicidad. De la Cartonera a Perlongher (2011), Néstor Perlongher's correspondence, Correspondencia (2016) and the novel Cat Power. La toma de la Tierra (2017). 

cp77@nyu.edu

Composer, arranger, conductor, keyboardist and music educator. He is a Berklee graduated and also holds a M.A. in composition from NYU, having pursued this graduate study under the auspices of a Fulbright scholarship. Recently, he has received the Platinum Konex award as the top Intrumental/fusion artist of the 2005-2014 decade.

He has led various influential groups in the Argentinian contemporary popular music scene, such as El Güevo (“The Egg”) in the 80’s and Monos con Navajas (“Monkeys with Knives,”) in the 90’s, which was commended by the Konex foundation as one of the top five jazz ensembles in the decade spanning 1985-1995. This year, he received the same award as one of the top five fusion artists of the 2005-2015 decade.

He has produced the 2005 Grammy-nominee album “Soundances” by Diego Urcola and contributed with his compositions to the 2007 Grammy-nominee “Viva”, by the same artist and featuring Paquito D’Rivera and Dave Samuels.

Simultaneously, he has worked as an arranger, keyboardist and/or musical director for some of the most outstanding artists of the last three decades of Argentinian popular music, and carrying out extensive teaching activities in the areas of arranging, composition, keyboards and ensemble workshops.

He is currently professor at the Escuela de Música Contemporánea (EMC), member of the Berklee International Network (BIN) and at the Tamaba Institute in Buenos Aires. He has been music teacher at the Travelling School of the Argentinian Ministerio de Educación an at the “Músicos por la Identidad” project, coordinated by Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo.

He is devoted to writing his own music and organizing ensembles for its recording and public performance. Currently, he’s leading his band “Raffo” for the presentations of their fourth album.

For more info: www.polloraffo.com, www.facebook.com/RAFFOMUSICA

jr196@nyu.edu

Ana Leonor Romero is a PhD candidate at the Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA) in Argentina.

Currently, she is the Reviews Editor of PolHis, Revista Bibliográfica del Programa Interuniversitario de Historia Política, and teaches History of Political Systems and Introduction to the Study of State and Society at UBA. She has participated in several research projects and published articles in specialized journals. Her current research at the Instituto de Historia Argentina y Americana “Dr. Emilio Ravignani” (UBA) focuses on intellectual exchange between Argentina, Spain, and the United States.

alr10@nyu.edu

Miguel Rosetti graduated in Argentine and Latin American Literature (Licenciatura en Letras) at Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA), where he is professor of Twentieth Century Literature and is also undertaking a PhD on Latin American literature at Universidad de Buenos Aires. He joined NYU Buenos Aires in 2009. He teaches at the Masters’ in Latin American Literature at Universidad de Nacional de Tres de Febrero (UNTREF), where he organized different academic activities, including congresses and conferences. He is a translator and has written several essays on literature.

mr2944@nyu.edu

Director of Education, Institute for Clinical Effectiveness and Health Policy, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Academic Director, Master Program for Clinical Effectiveness, School of Medicine, University of Buenos Aires; Associate Professor of Public Health, School of Medicine, University of Buenos Aires.

fr41@nyu.edu

Anna-Kazumi Stahl is a fiction writer and PhD (Comparative Literature, University of California Berkeley). As from 2013, she directs New York University’s academic program in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Born and educated in the USA, Anna-Kazumi Stahl has lived in Buenos Aires for 20 years having established herself as a published fiction writer in the Spanish language. Her fiction doctoral dissertation – treating the South American, USA and German traditions – focused on literature influenced by transnational migration and multi-cultural encounters, a topic that informs her fiction writing as well as her current research interests.

Her university teaching specializes in “World/Multicultural Literature” in addition to intensive workshops in “Creative Writing.” In addition, every year, she offers seminars in literature and visual cultures at the MALBA museum.

As a fiction writer, Anna-Kazumi Stahl has published two book-length works of fiction and numerous short stories. Her writing has been published in Latin America, the USA, Western Europe, and Japan. Her novel Flores de un solo dia (2003) was a finalist for the Romulo Gallegos prize for new Latin American fiction. Besides fiction, Anna Kazumi Stahl has published critical essays on bi-cultural identity in Argentina, the USA, and Japan.

As a translator, she has worked with Latin American authors such as Ricardo Piglia and filmmakers like Hector Babenco and Lucrecia Martel. With her mother, Tomiko Sasagawa Stahl, their collaboration introduced works by critic Michitaro Tada and artist Yayoi Kusama to Spanish language readers.

She is an active member of PEN/Argentina and is a Board Member of the Fulbright Commission in Argentina.

aks5@nyu.edu

Vera Cerqueiras holds a degree in Literature  (Licenciatura en Letras) from Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA) and a Masters’ in the Teaching of Spanish as a Second Language from Universidad de Barcelona. She is also a  PhD Candidate in Social Sciences, Universidad Nacional de Quilmes. She is Spanish Coordinator for CIEE-FLASCO's international study program in Argentina and is a teacher trainer in Spanish as a Second Language, leading workshops, lectures, and courses. She joined NYU Buenos Aires in 2008.

Vera Cerqueiras has served as an expert in many international projects for the sharing of academic and technical assistance in her specialization. From 1999 to 2008 she was the Academic Coordinator of the Spanish as a Foreign Language section of the University of Buenos Aires’ Language Institute. Her research focuses on the relationship between language and culture and on the development of didactic material for non-native speakers. For her PhD, she is researching language representations in teaching methods.

vc36@nyu.edu