Donald Tuten learned Spanish in Colombia and has lived in Spain. He received his Ph.D. in Spanish from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and is now Associate Professor of Spanish Linguistics at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. From 1996 to 2009 he served as Director of Emory's Spanish Language Program; in this role, he supervised design of the lower-division curriculum and training of new teaching assistants and instructors. In 2009 he received the Emory Williams Distinguished Teaching Award, Emorýs highest award for excellence in teaching.
Lucia Caycedo Garner is from Colombia. She taught language and pedagogy courses for more than thirty years at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and is the author of IMÁGENES, CLARO QUE SÍ! FUENTES: CONVERSACIÓN Y GRAMÁTICA, FUENTES: LITERATURA Y REDACCIÓN and EN PAREJAS 1, 2, 3 Y 4. She was an ACTFL OPI tester and trainer. She was a frequent presenter at the local, state, and national levels. She was also a contributor to the University of Wisconsin Spanish Placement Exam.
Carmelo Esterrich, Ph.D. received his doctoral in Spanish from the University of Wisconsin - Madison and is a tenured professor of Spanish and Cultural Studies. He holds a B.A in Film Studies from The Pennsylvania State University, and a M.A. in Spanish, also from Penn State. He has been at Columbia College Chicago since 1998. From 2002 to 2008, he was the Cultural Studies program director at Columbia. Professor Esterrich teaches a variety of courses: Introduction to Cultural Studies, Puerto Rico and Post-coloniality, Western Humanities, and Revolution and Art: Mexico, Spain, Cuba; he also teaches all levels of Spanish language, including Spanish for Heritage Speakers, an important course to develop the language skills of US Latinos whose Spanish is not their first language.
