Presenters Bio

Megan Echervarría, Professor of Spanish and Film Media Studies, earned her PhD at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.  She specializes in Spanish literary, cultural, and film studies, with keen interest in education, social justice, and interculturality.  She has extensive experience and enjoys teaching across the entire spectrum of the curriculum.  As a teacher-scholar, her writing and presentations shed light on the critical and central role of the humanities —literature in particular— at all levels of language programs and in innovative interdisciplinary curricula.   Her humanistic research focuses primarily on narrative and film.