Summer Faculty
With a goal to provide the most exceptional faculty we can find, this year's lineup will be sure to please. All of our faculty are excellent, seasoned teachers. Three faculty are full-time professors in the UW-System, and three have Masters Degrees and work full-time as Spanish teachers in high schools. These exceptional faculty will take you on a week-long journey through the Spanish language and culture. Be part of this amazing program!
Cristina Ortiz - Curricular Director
Cristina
Ortiz, Associate Professor,Coordinator Spanish Program, Curricular
Director and lead teacher for this Spanish Immersion program, was born in
San Sebastian (Spain) where she completed her undergraduate studies in Philosophy
and Education. She came to the United States in 1987 to further her education.
She has a Master Degree and a PhD in Spanish and Latin American Literatures
from the University of Cincinnati. Prof. Ortiz’ research is focused
on women's literature, concepts of nation and nationalism, and Spanish and
Latin American Cinema. She has been teaching at UW-Green Bay since 1993. She
is very involved in international education and has taken students to places
like Mexico, Spain and Australia.
Rosa Nelson
Rosa
Nelson is presently the ELL Coordinator for the Gibraltar School District
in WI. Rosa taught beginner, intermediate and advanced level Spanish language
and culture courses at UW-Green Bay from 1996-2002. In addition, she worked
in the Green Bay Public Schools in the ESL program and served as a student/parent
liason for school faculty and administrators. Rosa is fluent in English, Spanish
and Italian. Serving as camp director for the UWGB Spanish Immersion Summer
Camp for middle and high school students, , Rosa will bring a wealth of teaching
and cultural of experience to the classroom.
Pilar Melero
Pilar
Melero is an Assistant Professor of Spanish and Chicano/Chicana Literature
at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. She has a BA in journalism and Spanish,
from the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater; and MA in Spanish from the University
of Texas at El Paso; and a Ph.D. in Spanish, (Modern Latin American Literature)
with an emphasis on women as discursive subjects. Her passions are writing,
reading, photography, food, and travel.
Alicia de Gregorio
Alicia
de Gregorio is Assistant Professor of Spanish at UW-Whitewater. She earned her
PhD in Spanish Literature from the University of Cincinnati, and a B.A. in English
from the Universidad Complutense, in Madrid, Spain. She is currently an officer
of the Executive Board of ALDEEU Spanish Professionals Inc.
Amélia Canilho
Amélia
Canilho is originally from Portugal and teaches in the ELL program at Sevastopol
High School in Door County and for the UW-Green Bay-Outreach Extension Department.
She has 23 years of teaching experience at the university, and secondary levels.
She holds a Bachelor's Degree in European History and a Masters in Art History
and Archaeology. She lives in Door County with her husband and two sons.
Karla Weibel
Karla
Weibel currently works as a high school ELL Language Arts teacher for the Green
Bay Area Public Schools. She has been in the Green Bay district for the past
5 years. Before that, Karla taught 6 years of high school Spanish in Lodi, Wisconsin.
Karla has been learning and speaking Spanish for the past 21 years. She earned
her bilingual teaching certification from UW-Oshkosh in May 2005 and received
her Masters from UW-Whitewater in Curriculum and Instruction in December of
2006. While an undergraduate student at UW-Eau Claire, Karla had the opportunity
to study for a year at the Universidad de Oviedo in Oviedo, Spain. Karla has
also worked as a co-director for high school summer missionary tours to Costa
Rica and Peru.