Lecturer I
She/ Her/ Hers
msotpadr@umich.edu
Office Information:
3408 MLB
hours: https://calendly.com/msotpadr/15min
Romance Languages & Literatures;
Spanish;
Lecture;
Faculty
Education/Degree:
M.A. in Spanish, University of Virginia
M.A. in Literature of Puerto Rico and the Caribbean, Center for Advnaced Studies of Puerto Rico and the Caribbean
B.A. in General Humanities, Universidad del Sagrado Corazón - Puerto Rico
Duke Health & Well-Being Coach Training - expected April 2025
About
Teaching:
- Spanish 103: Review of Elementary Spanish
- Spanish 232: Second-Year Spanish, Continued (non-Topics sections)
Areas of Interest:
- Second Language Acquisition
- Communicative and Proficiency-Based Pedagogy
- 20th & 21st-Century Latin American and Caribbean Literature
Grants, Fellowships, and Awards:
- Charles Gordon Reid Summer Fellowship, University of Virginia - Spanish Program. Summer 2022/2023
- Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellowship in Caribbean Literatures, Arts & Cultures, University of Virginia. Fall 2021 - Summer 2023
- Dean’s Doctoral Fellowship, University of Virginia. Fall 2021 - Summer 2023
- Foreign Language and Area of Studies Fellowship, USA Department of Education. Duke Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. Language: Yucatec Maya, Level 1. Summer 2022
- Winner of Incubadora Literatura Infantil/Juvenil, Nuestro Barrio: Distrito Cultural de Santurce. Scholarship to self-publish my first book “Diario del Darién: sobre cómo llegué a la selva”. Fall 2022
- Hispanic Federation Fund, managed by Fundación Comunitaria de Puerto Rico. Fall 2020
- AT&T Scholarship, fund managed by Sacred Heart University. Spring 2017
- Toyota Foundation Grant in Puerto Rico. Fall 2014 - Spring 2018
- El Nuevo Día Educador Prize, Math Category, managed by the Puerto Rican Journal “El Nuevo Día” (Full Scholarship for Undergraduate Tuition). Fall 2014 - Spring 2017
Hobbies:
- Handbuilding Pottery
- Salsa dancing
- Reading (right now, I'm fixated on Behavior Change books).
- Hiking
- Taking care of my plants
