Jessica Linville

Professor Linville holds an M.A. in Hispanic Literatures from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey and a B.A. with a major in Spanish Language and Literatures from George Washington University, Washington, DC. She has also done PhD coursework at both Rutgers and the Universidad Carlos III of Madrid. Jessica has taught Spanish and English as second language, Hispanic literature, and university writing workshops at a variety of levels in both academic and professional institutions since 1999, including IE University, The College for International Studies in Madrid and Rutgers University.

Professor Linville joined IEU faculty in 2011 and became the Director of the Language Center in 2012. As Director of IE Language Center she continues to teach Spanish. The IEU Language Center currently offers multiple levels of Spanish, English, French, German, Chinese, Portuguese, and Arabic in addition to university writing courses of the IE Module to students at the Madrid and Segovia centers, as well as Spanish, French, Chinese and Arabic in the Masters in International Relations.

Professor Linville´s research has dealt primarily with the cycle of migrations between South America (particularly Argentina) and Europe (especially Spain and Italy) around the turn of the XIX and XX centuries, and the way these migrations helped to shape cultural identity as manifested in theater, literature and TV/film

EXPERIENCE

• Instructor, CIS The College For International Studies
• Course development “Teaching English through literature”, CIS The College For International Studies for Comunidad de Madrid
• Graduate Teaching Assistant Department of Spanish & Portuguese, Rutgers University
• Head Teaching Assistant Department of Spanish & Portuguese, Rutgers University
• Assistant to Dr. Tomás Eloy Martínez, Director Latin American Studies Program, Rutgers University

EDUCATION

• PhD studies in Humanities, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
• M.A. Spanish Language & Literature, PhD (course work), Rutgers University
• B.A. Spanish Language & Literature, Magna Cum Laude, The George Washington University