{"id":23,"date":"2013-03-05T15:04:10","date_gmt":"2013-03-05T21:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/spanish\/?page_id=23"},"modified":"2023-06-07T08:37:02","modified_gmt":"2023-06-07T13:37:02","slug":"leon-narvaez","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/spanish\/leon-narvaez\/","title":{"rendered":"Le\u00f3n Narv\u00e1ez"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nT 3:00 – 3:45
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\nand by appointment<\/p>\n

Professor Narv\u00e1ez received a B.A. degree in political science and a
\nPh.D. degree in Hispanic literature and linguistics from the University of
\nMinnesota. \u00a0He finished his secondary training at Colegio Nueva
\nGranada (Bogota, Colombia), completed part of his college work at the
\nUniversidad de Navarra (Pamplona, Spain) and has lived in Puerto Rico,
\nMexico, Colombia, Spain, and Costa Rica. \u00a0His research interests
\ninclude cultural and migration studies as well as literary and
\nlinguistic analysis. \u00a0 He has worked as an administrator, consultant,
\neditor, interpreter, recording artist, and translator. \u00a0In addition to
\nnumerous articles, and some language games and reviews, his published
\nwork includes nine books and two workbooks edited or written by him or
\nin collaboration with others. \u00a0Narv\u00e1ez is the former president of the
\nstate association for teachers of Spanish and Portuguese, former
\ncoordinator of the Minnesota State Spanish Contest, and site
\ncoordinator for the Festival Quijote. \u00a0He has served twice as the
\npresident of the North Central Council of Latin Americanists, one of
\neight regional associations for specialists in Latin America, as well
\nas three separate times as the Director of the programs of the
\nAssociated Colleges of the Midwest \u00a0(ACM) in Costa Rica. \u00a0Of over
\nfifty awards\/honors, some examples are: \u00a0in 1987 he received the
\nRicardo A. Narv\u00e1ez Award for excellence in the teaching of Spanish
\nfrom the Minnesota chapter of the American Association of Teachers of
\nSpanish and Portuguese (AATSP) and in 1988 he was recognized by the
\nAATSP through a national teaching award as the outstanding
\ncollege\/university teacher of Spanish in the United States. \u00a0In 1989
\nhe was awarded the Emma Birkmaier Award by the MN Council on the
\nTeaching of Foreign Languages \u00a0as the outstanding foreign language
\nteacher in MN. \u00a0In 2001 Narv\u00e1ez was given the Award of Merit by the
\nNorth Central Council of Latin Americanists (NCCLA) for promoting
\nunderstanding and cooperation between the U.S. and Latin America. In
\n2007 he received awards from the NCCLA and the MN Council on the
\nTeaching of Languages and Cultures for excellence in the preparation
\nof teaching materials. \u00a0In 2012 his decades of working with students
\nat St. Olaf to encourage their out-of-class learning through the
\nSpanish Conversation Table, the Spanish Club and other activities was
\nrecognized through the Gertrude Hilleboe Award. \u00a0Narv\u00e1ez was one of
\ntwo St. Olaf faculty members selected to give a Mellby Lecture (about
\nhis professional work) to the campus community during the 2013-2014
\nacademic year.<\/p>\n

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