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Dr. Maria Van Liew
Professor
College of Arts & Humanities - Languages and Cultures
Bio
Dr. Maria Van Liew was fortunate to join the WCU “Foreign Languages” Department in 1998. Her teaching, scholarship, and service to the field of Hispanic Cultural Studies has included a focus on Contemporary Spain, in particular Peninsular literature and film, migration, gender, class, and most recently, Spanish youth culture. She is always delighted to work with students interested in the Humanities and in the world beyond their known political, cultural and virtual borders.
Expertise
- Hispanic Cultural Studies
- Spanish Youth Culture
- Transnational/Transcultural Migrations
- Spanish and Collaborative European Cinema
- Spanish Horror Film
- European Immigration
- Film and Cultural Theory
- Study Abroad
Education
- B.A., Clark University, 1988
- M.A., C. of Philosophy, University of California, San Diego, 1994
- Ph.D., University of California, San Diego, 1997