Jennifer M. Valko

Associate Professor
Hispanic Studies
252-328-5526 (phone)
252-328-6233 (fax)
valkoj@ecu.edu
Austin 314 (office)
Dept. Foreign Languages & Literatures
East Carolina University Mailstop #556
Greenville, NC 27858-4353

Background

• Ph.D. Spanish American Literature, University of California, Davis
  • Special Emphasis in Second Language Acquisition
• M.A. Spanish, Washington University, St. Louis
• B.A. Spanish and Anthropology, University of Colorado, Boulder Magna Cum Laude

Courses

• GLST 2520 Contemporary Latin American Cinema
• FORL 2662 Latin American Culture through Film
• SPAN 4700/6522 Seminar: Latin American Travel
• SPAN 4020/6020 Contemporary Issues in the Spanish-Speaking World
• SPAN 4562 Latin American Texts of the 19th and Early 20th Centuries
• SPAN 4560 Major Latin-American Authors
• SPAN 3700 Latin American Popular Culture and Conversation
• SPAN 3550 Introduction to Cultural Analysis
• SPAN 3441 Latin-American Culture and Civilization
• SPAN 3210 Advanced Spanish Composition
• SPAN 1001-2004 Spanish Levels I-IV

Research Interests

• Nineteenth-Century Latin American Literary and Cultural Studies
• Nation Building and Identity Formation
• Migration and Diaspora
• Tourism and Travel Writing

Dr. Valko researches and teaches in the fields of 19th and 20th century Latin American literary and cultural studies. Her research examines such issues as tourism, immigration, nationalism, and identity. She is particularly interested in Germanic migration and diasporic communities, the rhetoric of transnational commerce, and cross-cultural representations in Argentina and Chile.

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