Amalia Mondríquez
Professor Modern Languages Office Location: AD 345 Phone: (210) 829-8630 Email: mondrigu@uiwtx.eduDr. Amalia Mondríguez is from Puerto Rico. She received a BA and an MA in Hispanic Studies from the University of Puerto Rico. She holds an MA and a PhD from Harvard University in Spanish and Latin American Literatures. She is a professor of Spanish language, literature, and culture at The University of the Incarnate Word. She also teaches Spanish at the Feik School of Pharmacy and at the Rosenberg School of Optometry. She wrote the textbooks Spanish for Pharmacists, and Spanish for Optometrists. For her contributions as an educator, she was Included in the book Great Lives in History: Latinos.
BA and an MA in Hispanic Studies from the University of Puerto Rico MA and a PhD from Harvard University in Spanish and Latin American Literatures
Spanish Professor at UIW (since 1988)
Chair UIW Department of Modern Languages (2000-2009)
- Ojitos de Canela (poem) published by Revista Cayey, University of Puerto Rico, No. 98, (2017)
- El pañuelo (short-story) published by Revista Cayey, University of Puerto Rico, No. 99, (2018)
- Presentation of a paper in the 52nd SCOLAS (Southwest Council of Latin American Studies) international conference. La importancia de la entrevista en los cursos de literatura y cultura de Hispanoamérica y España. San Antonio, March 2, 2018
- La gemela desaparecida (short-story) digital publication of Casa de España, San Antonio, 2021
- Coeditor of poetry book CHASS Emeriti Poetry by Dr. Sally Said, Dr. Tarcisio Beal and Dr. Chris Paris, 2022.
- Bilingual Health Fair for Housekeepers Working at UIW, oral Service Learning presentation during Research Week, Service Learning at UIW, April 12, 2023.
Casa de España, board member, since 2023
- Cultural trips with students and faculty
- Write fiction and songs
- Harvard University Certificate of Distinction in Teaching (1987 1988)
- Volunteer of the Year of the Literature Division, Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center (1992).
- IWC nominee for Piper professor, 1993
- Palmer Award, Incarnate Word Mission in Education (2009)
- CCVI Spirit Award, 2016
- Coquisa Award for Service, Puerto Rican Heritage Society, 2017
- La gemela desaparecida, Second place, International Short-story contest of Casa de España, San Antonio, 2021
- Volunteer Centro de Envejecientes Celia T. de Mondríguez (Day Care for Elders founded by mother Celia)
- Coordination of health fairs
- Coordination of events for CHASS Emeritus Faculty
Write Spanish for health articles and textbooks
- Elementary Spanish 1 and 2
- Advanced Grammar and Composition
- Culture and Civilization of Spain
- Culture and Civilization of Latin America
- Spanish Literature to 1700
- Spanish Literature since 1700
- Spanish American Literature to Modernism
- Spanish American Literature since Modernism
- Spanish in the Media
- Children's Literature in Spanish
- Literature of the USA in Spanish
- Spanish for Pharmacy
- Spanish for Optometry
- Spanish for Biomedical Sciences