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Select Curricular Development:

• 2009:  Created “Spanish for Heritage Speakers Courses.”
• 2010:  Created Arabic courses.
• 2011:  Attained a NEH Grant to promote “Latin American and Latino 
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• 2011:  Founded the “Fulbright Language Teaching Assistant” program in Arabic.
• 2019:  Created Albanian courses (������ý now has largest Albanian course enrollment in 
  the country).
• 2020: Created Spanish “Master Courses” for online education. 
• 2020: Created a five-year B.A. in Spanish / M.S. in TESOL Program.
• 2021: Created a Latin American and Latino Studies Minor.
• 2024: Created a give-year B.A. in Spanish / M.B.A. Program.

Courses Taught:    

• Elementary and Intermediate Italian
• Elementary and Intermediate Spanish
• Advanced Spanish Grammar and Composition
• Afro-Hispanic Literature
• Colombian Literature and Culture
• Colombian Narcoliterature
• Comparative Romance Literatures
• Contemporary Spanish Literature
• Critica literaria
• Dominican Literature
• The Generation of 1898
• The Generations of 1914 and 1927
• The Generation of Ortega y Gasset
• Latin America through Cinema
• Latin America Today
• Latin America and Movements of Social Justice
• Masterworks in Spanish Literature
• Mexican Literature
• Modernismo 
• Perceptiva Literaria
• Romanticismo
• Spain Today
• Spanish Major Senior Capstone
• Spanish Golden Age Literature
• Spanish Literary Criticism
• The Spanish Civil War in Literature and Cinema
• 19th Century Spanish Literature
• 20th Century Mexican Novel
• The Italian American Experience
• Italian and Italian American History and Cultures  
• Senior Capstone

Select Courses Developed:

• Albanian for Communication
• Communicating in Albanian
• Arabic for Communication
• Communicating in Arabic
• Intermediate Italian I + II
• Intermediate French I + II
• Italian and Italian American Culture & History
• The Italian American Experience
• Spanish for Heritage Speakers
• Many Spanish Major Courses
   

The Ruth Bennett Award for Major Contributions to Hispanic Studies, American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese, April 2025. 

Ambasciatore Award. Italian American Museum. Woodbury, NY. November 2023.

 U.S. Representative Nick LaLota New York’s First Congressional District Certificate of Congressional Recognition. Woodbury, NY. November 2023.

Italian American Heritage & Culture Committee of New York Citation of Honor Award. St. John’s University. Queens, NY. October 2023.                                           

Fifteen-years of Service Award. ������ý. Dobbs Ferry, NY.  November 2023. 

Lifetime Achievement Award. Italian Language Foundation. New York, NY. December 2022.

Contributions and Service to Phi Sigma Iota, the International Foreign Language Honor Society. Meadville, PA. February 2020.