Raquel Diez-Díaz

Lecturer in Language (Spanish)

Raquel holds a B.A. and an M.A. in Hispanic Philology from the Universidad de Deusto in Bilbao, Spain and a Ph.D. in Peninsular and Latin American Literatures from New York University.

In her view, learning a language is another way of seeing the world, and one step toward understanding our differences. That is why in her doctoral dissertation she studied the translations from Arabic into Spanish of Christian, Jewish and Muslim authors in 13th-century Spain, and also why learning and teaching another language are meaningfull activities for her.

She collaborated as writer, editor, and supervisor of the Spanish textbook Juntos (Prentice Hall). As for her teaching, in the past she used to focus on how to teach; nowadays, she is focusing on how students learn. Her long-term goal is to become more and more a facilitator of knowledge rather than just a mere transmitter of it.

Casa Hispánica 506
rmd26@columbia.edu
(212) 854-8075
(212) 854-5322

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