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Spring 2008 

Professor José Luis Martínez completed his Bachelor's degree (BA) in Hispanic Studies at the University of Puerto Rico in Río Piedras, Puerto Rico, and his MA and Ph.D. in Spanish Literature (Spain / Spanish America) at The University of Texas at Austin.  He joined the Dept. of Foreign Languages at Stonehill College in August 1998.  His scholarly work is geared toward his general teaching and research area, Spanish American and Hispanic Caribbean literature and culture.    

He has published on subjects such as music and literature in the Hispanic Caribbean region: Cuba, Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico, the aspect of color in Puerto Rican literature,  the novels of Luis Rafael Sánchez and Rosario Ferré, and the Afro-Hispanic cultural traditions in Puerto Rico.  His teaching experience includes five years at Stonehill College, as an Assistant Professor of Spanish; one semester at Bridgewater State College as a Visiting Professor (Seminar on Spanish American Modernism); six years at The University of Central Arkansas, in Conway, Arkansas, as an Assistant Professor of Spanish where he was Tenured; and six years of part-time teaching while in Ph.D. program at The University of Texas at Austin and Austin Community College. 

At Stonehill College Prof. Martínez has taught all levels of Spanish (Elementary, Intermediate, Advanced), and developed new courses in Spanish devoted to Latin America: Survey of Latin American Culture & Literature I & II, Afro-Hispanic Culture & Literature of the Caribbean, and Maya, Aztec, Inca Traditions in Latin America. His classroom goals are focused on all of the components of communicative competence (proficiency orientation). Proficiency entails communication, cultural understanding, connections with other areas of knowledge, comparisons on the nature of language and culture, and participating in multilingual communities.  

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Old San Juan, Puerto Rico

News: 

Associate Professor of Spanish José Martinez received an award in recognition of his promotion and celebration of diversity at Stonehill during Alumni Weekend -Fall 2006. The Office of Intercultural Affairs, Student Activities, and Alumni Affairs presented the award at the fifth annual “Touch of Class” reception.

LC-Spring 2006-Crossing Borders-Meeting our Peruvians neighbors        

Spring Break at Lima, Peru

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