I am a Spanish Instructor at Bloomsburg University. I will be teaching four Spanish courses during the Fall 2007 semester. I enjoy teaching Spanish and encouraging students to continue studying the language and learning about Spanish culture.
I recently graduated from the University of New Mexico (May 2007) with my Masters degree in Spanish, concentrated in Hispanic Literature. I am also a 2005 graduate of Bloomsburg University, where I earned degrees in both Spanish and Secondary Education.
I love traveling and I spent 5 months of my junior year (Spring 2004) studying at la Universidad Complutense in Madrid, Spain. Additionally, I completed an internship in Puerto Rico during the summer of 2002 where I worked at an orphanage in the town of Adujntas. More recently, I spent the month of July 2006 studying Maya art and architecture in Copan Ruinas, Honduras. I like to encourage all students to take advantage of study abroad opportunities.
Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania
rbender@unm.edu
Spanish 100, Spanish 101,
Spanish 203