Meet Our Students

  • Bouchard, Pascale

    Pascale Bouchard

    Romance Languages - French and Spanish, College Teaching Concentration

    Research & professional interests:
    Expressing gender nonconformity in French and Spanish; art.

    Current position:
    Graduate Teaching Assistant (Beginning French I)



  • Cutiva Valencia, Sergio

    Sergio Cutiva Valencia

    Romance Languages - Spanish, College Teaching Concentration

    Research & professional interests:
    Higher education policy, applied linguistics, and political science.

    Current position:
    Research Assistant for the Alliance for Research on Regional Colleges



  • Garcia, Jasmine

    Jasmine Garcia

    Romance Languages - Spanish, College Teaching Concentration (Accelerated Master's)

    Research & professional interests:
    Target language use in the world language classroom and increasing postsecondary education access to Hispanic/Latine students in the United States.



  • Hagen, Mark

    Mark Hagen

    MA Student in Romance Languages, Spanish College Teaching

    Research & professional interests:
    Linguistics, bilingualism, Spanish-English code-switching

    Current position:
    Assistant Director of Education Abroad

    hagenm@appstate.edu

  • Hawkins, Allison

    Allison Hawkins

    Romance Languages - Spanish, K-12 Teaching Concentration

    Research & professional interests:
    Secondary and post-secondary language learning, bilingualism, sociolinguistics, and teaching heritage learners.

    Current  position:
    Spanish teacher, Blue Ridge Early College, Cashiers, NC



  • Johnson, Emily

    Emily Johnson

    Romance Languages - Spanish, K-12 Teaching Concentration

    Current position:
    Graduate Assistant (focus on departmental communications)



  • Kyle, Rhett

    Rhett Kyle

    Romance Languages - Spanish, College Teaching Concentration

    Research & professional interests:
    Spanish literature

    Current position:
    Graduate Assistant (focus on instructional support)



  • Richardson, Mattea

    Mattea Richardson

    Romance Languages - Spanish, K-12 Teaching Concentration

    Research & professional interests:
    Second language acquisition, bilingual education, narratives of migration, Spanish linguistics, dialectal variance, and teaching heritage learners.

    Current position:
    Graduate Assistant (focus on Spanish conversation sections)



  • Smith, Caroline

    Caroline Smith

    Romance Languages - Spanish, College Teaching Concentration

    Research & professional interests:
    Contemporary Mexican and Central American literature, narratives of migration, trauma, identity formation, and memory studies.

    Current position:
    Graduate Research Assistant (GRAM Program)