Dr. Jorge W Suazo-Jaque
has been a member of the Georgia Southern faculty since Fall
1993. He teaches all levels of Spanish both at the undergraduate,
graduate level and in the Spanish for Business curriculum.
Dr. Suazo has been involved with studies abroad programs in
Mexico and he used to direct (1998 -2001) the department’s
Segovia Studies Abroad Program in Segovia, Spain. Beside his
teaching duties, he is the Spanish Section Head/Convener.
He is also the Director of the Southeast Coastal Conference
on Languages & Literatures [ SECCLL].
Dr. Suazo is a native of San Carlos, Chile where
he completed elementary, high school, and college. He attended
Universidad de Chile-Sede Ñuble [now Universidad del
Bío-Bío] in Chillán, Chile where he graduated
with a B.A. in English Education. He arrived in the United
States in 1980 invited by the Amity Institute (of San Diego,
California). As an Amity Scholar, he team-taught Spanish at
several high schools and a college in West Virginia, Wisconsin
and Virginia. Later, he completed his Master of Arts degree
in Modern Languages and TESOL Certificate from the Department
of Modern Languages, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio. Last,
he graduated with a Ph.D. in Spanish Golden Age Literature
from the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, The Ohio State
University, Columbus, Ohio.
His areas of interest and general expertise
range from Medieval Literature, Golden Age Peninsular Literature:
Poetry (Metaphysical/Religious Poets), Golden Age Drama, Picaresque
Novel, Early-Modern Women Literature of Spain, especially
Conventual Literature, Spanish for the Professions (Spanish
for Business, Law, Science and Technology), and On-line Teaching.
He is a member of various professional organizations
and he is actively involved in departmental, university and
community work. He has participated in several technology
workshops as well as academic ones, such as Teaching Portfolio
and Spanish for Business. This summer (2004) he will be attending
a workshop in Translation and Interpretation (Spanish/English)
in Madrid, Spain.
Dr. Suazo is also an active participant in local,
regional, and national professional conferences. He has delivered
more than thirty papers in the United States and in Spain.
He has been invited to present lectures locally and in nearby
areas where he shares his expertise in education, Spanish
for Business and about his native Chile.
Dr. Suazo has recently published Mary Symbolism
in the "romances" of Francisco de Medrano with
the Edwin Mellen Press. He is also preparing an “Anthology
of Peninsular Literature” to be published in the
near future.
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