MICRO-BIO

• Brianne began teaching in the Department of French, Hispanic, and Italian Studies at the University of British Columbia in 2010. She teaches all levels of the undergraduate Spanish language curriculum and coordinates Beginner’s Spanish I & II (S...More

  Brianne began teaching in the Department of French, Hispanic, and Italian Studies at the University of British Columbia in 2010. She teaches all levels of the undergraduate Spanish language curriculum and coordinates Beginner’s Spanish I & II (Spanish 101 & 102), so she often gets the chance to work directly with students during their first year at UBC and to see them through the Spanish major and minor programs. Apart from her role in language instruction and coordination, Brianne teaches literature and culture classes in Spanish and in English that grapple with different aspects of the Hispanic context, with a particular focus on politics, gender, and resistance in Latin America. For instance, Spanish 280, a course she will teach in January of 2020, looks at how revolution as concept and practice is first imagined through first-hand accounts of major leaders and icons of revolution – Che Guevara (Argentina, Cuba), Subcomandante Marcos (Mexico), and others – and then disseminated, exported to other movements, and transformed through literature, art, music, and film. Less

EXPERIENCE

• The University of British Columbia

  • Instructor of Spanish
  • French, Hispanic and Italian Studies
  • January 2020 to Present

EDUCATION

Links

• Brianne Orr-Álvarez, ePortfolio