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Berta Carrasco arrived at Hope College in fall 2012. She earned her master亚洲色吧檚 and Ph.D. at Western Michigan University and taught one year at Immaculata University, a Catholic university in Pennsylvania.

At Hope, Berta teaches beginning Spanish as well as Loading... for heritage speakers and for students with Spanish as second language. She loves teaching Spanish and sharing her culture and language with my students.  

AREAS OF expertise

Berta received her Ph.D. in Spanish women亚洲色吧檚 writings, focusing on the testimony of women who were in prison during the Spanish Civil War. Related to this topic, she likes to research how the change of generations affects the way women define themselves.

Besides her interest in women亚洲色吧檚 writings, she also conducts research on hybrid learning and teaching, and more specifically how to create hybrid activities that are effective in a hybrid format.

EDUCATION

• Ph.D., Spanish peninsular literature, Western Michigan University, 2011
• M.A., Spanish literature and cultures, Western Michigan University, 2007
• B.A., English philology, Universidad Nebrija, Madrid, 2005

Berta spent her junior undergraduate year at Kalamazoo College, where she studied abroad and worked as a Spanish conversation lab instructor.

HONORS, GRANTS & AWARDS

As a graduate student, Berta received several awards and fellowships, including:

• Gwen Frostic Fellowship
• Department of Spanish Graduate Research and Creative Award
• All-University Graduate Teaching Effectiveness Award

At Hope College she has received grants that have helped her to continue her research and formation as a professor, including:

• Haworth Fellowship
• Yntema Family Faculty Development Fund
• Willard C. Wichers Faculty Development Fund
• Technology Innovation Grant

She has also presented at multiple national and international conferences.

Published work

• 亚洲色吧溠侵奚�吧楧esde la noche y la niebla亚洲色吧� y 亚洲色吧楢lias Lola; historia de las 煤ltimas presas pol铆ticas de la c谩rcel de Ventas亚洲色吧�: dos historias de resistencia colectiva femenina en la c谩rcel franquista de Ventas,亚洲色吧� chapter in La identidad en el mundo hispano Igualdades y desigualdades en los siglos XIX, XX y XXI a trav茅s de diversos textos, forthcoming 2019
• 亚洲色吧淧a铆s 脥ntimo: Identity Formation of a Generation that Inherited the Trauma of the Spanish Civil War,亚洲色吧� Michigan Academician, Michigan Academy of Science, Arts and Letters, 2018
• 亚洲色吧淓l proceso de literaturizaci贸n de los primeros yextos de las c谩rceles femeninas franquistas (1970亚洲色吧�1980),亚洲色吧� Sincron铆a. Revista electr贸nica de Filosof铆a, Letras y Humanidades, 2018
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Outside Hope

There are three things that Berta absolutely loves doing in her free time: reading, traveling and spending time with her family and friends. She also enjoy going for very long walks.