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International Institute > Maria Willstedt, PhD

Maria Willstedt, PhD

Cultural Studies

Maria comes from a multilingual, multicultural background. She grew up in Rome, attended college in Finland, and then moved to the US, where she earned a Ph.D. in Spanish from Yale University. Her main field of interest in her lies in the history of ideas, cultural analysis, and critical thinking; both past and present. She taught language and culture courses at various American universities for almost 20 years before recently relocating to Spain. She loves teaching. Regardless of the topic or the level of the class, her primary goal is for her students to achieve the best possible results from their learning experience, be it a higher-level linguistic competence or a richer understanding of a culture and tradition. She holds a TEFL certificate from Florida State University.

María proviene de un entorno plurilingüe y multicultural. Se crio en Roma, hizo la carrera universitaria en Finlandia y luego se trasladó a los EE. UU. donde obtuvo el doctorado en filología hispánica por Yale University. Su interés académico se centra en la historia de las ideas, el análisis cultural y el pensamiento crítico. Ha impartido cursos de lengua y cultura en varias universidades estadounidenses durante casi veinte años. Enseñar es su vocación. Cualquiera que sea el nivel de la clase o el tema de que se trate, su objetivo pedagógico siempre es que el estudiante obtenga los mejores resultados posibles de su aprendizaje, ya sean estos un mejor conocimiento de la lengua mediante la práctica de la misma, o una comprensión más profunda de su cultura y tradiciones. Tiene un diploma de enseñanza del inglés como lengua extranjera por Florida State University.

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