Margarita Altuna
Assistant Instructor of Spanish
- Campus: 哔咔漫画 Sarasota-Manatee
Margarita Altuna is originally from Quito, Ecuador. As a Ph.D. candidate (ABD) in Spanish Languages and Latin American Literature at the University of Maryland, College Park, she studied the interaction of 18th-century literature, philosophy and history with Jesuit thinking in 鈥淗istoria Antigua de M茅xico.鈥� Margarita has a B.A. in Social Communication from Universidad Central del Ecuador (Quito), and an M.A. in Spanish and Latin American Literature from the University of Maryland, College Park.
In her spare time, Margarita enjoys art, literature, and travel. Her research interests include nineteenth and twentieth-century Spanish American Literature, Ecuadorian Literature, Afro-Ecuadorian Literature, Latin American Civilization, Literature and Cinema, and Literature and Journalism.
She recently published La clase de Jos茅 Emilio Pacheco, (2014) 14-15 and (2014) 96-97.