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Nidia Schuhmacher joined the Department of Hispanic Studies at Brown University in 2004 and has been involved in foreign language teaching for twenty years. Her teaching experience spans various cultural settings in New York, the Boston area, and internationally in Argentina and Italy. She previously taught at Tufts University and the University of Massachusetts at Boston, and for fifteen years at Brandeis University, where she was a Lecturer in the Spanish Department of Romance and Comparative Literature. There, she coordinated language teaching in the Spanish area. Nidia has focused on mentoring and training teachers, designing curricula, and developing course materials, along with engaging in translation, interpretation, and editorial work. Her research interests lie in language pedagogy, the integration of technology in language instruction, language acquisition, and the teaching of writing and culture through translation. Recently, she has developed a keen interest in the intersection of arts and performance with language learning. At Brown, she coordinates the Spanish Language program and has designed courses such as Intensive Basic Spanish and HISP 710E, Introduction to Professional Translation and Interpretation. Nidia served as the director of the Language Program in Hispanic Studies from 2006 to 2011 and has received multiple teaching awards, including the John Rowe Workman Award for Excellence in Teaching in Humanities in 2015.
Department: Department of Economics