Anna Carolina Peñaloza
Anna is a writer, poet, and artivista. She holds a B.A. in Environmental Science from the University of Arizona and a Master's in Language Teaching from the UPTC. She is a Ph.D. in Education student at the University of California, Davis. Her research interests include feminist pedagogy, feminist writing, social equity, STEM, and art literacy.
Simone de Souza Burguês
Graduada em Letras Inglês/UEM (2010) e em Letras Português e Espanhol/UEPG (2017), Bacharel em Tradução/UEM (2011), Mestre em Letras/UEM (2014) e Doutora em Letras/UEM (2019). É, também, licenciada em Pedagogia pela Unicesumar (2021). Tem experiência na área de Letras, com ênfase em Língua Inglesa, atuando principalmente nos seguintes temas: formação do leitor, literaturas de língua inglesa, tradução, leitura e práticas
literárias contemporâneas. Atualmente trabalha como professora colaboradora na Universidade Estadual do Paraná (UNESPAR) campus Apucarana.
Bárbara Zocal da Silva
Multiracial woman from the countryside of São Paulo, Brazil, translator, interpreter and is passionate about languages and cultures. She currently works as an
Assistant Clinical Professor at the University of Maryland, Lecturer at The George Washington University, and interpreter at Prince George County Public Schools in United States. She holds a PhD in Spanish from the University of São Paulo (LELEHA/FFLCH, 2022), with an emphasis on Translation Studies. Her research focuses on the reception of translations of Hispanic-American women published in Brazil, as presented in her thesis "Betwixt Maitena and PowerPaola: a historiography sin fronteras of Spanish-American graphic narratives translated in
Brazil" (2022). In addition, she is engaged in practice and research of anti-racist pedagogies for
foreign language and translation teaching, as well as in humanitarian and community interpreting
studies.
Paul Berger
Paul Berger es profesor en el Departamento de Lingüística Aplicada y Didáctica de Lenguas de la Facultad de Lenguas de la Universidad de Estrasburgo en Francia. Paralelamente, se encuentra en su segundo año de doctorado y forma parte del grupo de investigación LiLPa (Lingüística, Lenguas, Discurso). Sus intereses investigativos se enfocan en : la enseñanza de FLE a públicos hispanohablantes, el code switching entre francés y español, las normas y variaciones en didáctica de las lenguas. Asimismo, Paul Berger obtuvo su Maestría en Lingüística Aplicada y Didáctica de las lenguas, en el año 2020, y su pregrado, como licenciado en lenguas modernas-lingüística, español e inglés, en el año 2016; estudios que realizó en la Universidad de Estrasburgo, en Francia. Además, tiene experiencia como asistente de francés en colegio y liceo en España entre 2016-2017; fue Lector en la Universidad de Murcia, España, en 2020-2021. En el año 2018-2019, se desempeñó como asistente de francés con la Escuela de Idiomas, en la licenciatura en lenguas Extranjeras con énfasis en inglés y en francés de la Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia, en Tunja, Colombia.
Miguél Arcángel García Rojas
Full-Time, Titular, Professor at the UPTC faculty staff, attached to the School of Languages, English Collective. He holds a Master's Degree in Rhetoric and Composition granted by BC University of Shreveport (USA), and a Specialization in Teaching English to Young Learners by Thames Valley University (London) respectively. He was a scholarship Recipient to study the Specialization course in “Young Learners”, at Thames Valley University (London).
Carlo Granados-Beltrán
Carlo Granados-Beltrán holds a PhD in Education from Universidad Santo Tomás, an MA in British
Cultural Studies and ELT from the University of Warwick, and an MA in Applied Linguistics to TEFL from Universidad Distrital. Currently, he is the Academic Vice-chancellor at Institución Universitaria Colombo Americana – ÚNICA. He is a member of the research group Innovations in Bilingual Education (INNOBED). He has been a professor at the Languages Department at Universidad Central, and the initial teacher education programs at Universidad Pedagógica Nacional, Universidad Javeriana, and ÚNICA. He has been a guest lecturer at the MA in Language
Teaching at UPTC and the Emphasis in ELT Education from the Doctorado Interinstitucional en Educación at Universidad del Valle. His research interests are interculturality, teacher education, and formative research, among others.
Katherinne Lorena Toro Torres
Holds a Bachelor's degree in Foreign Languages from the UPTC and is currently preparing her thesis defend for the Masters degree in Language Teaching, also from
UPTC. She has worked in the field of foreign language teaching (ELE, FLE, EFL) in national and international contexts, and she is currently leading the English department of the Licenciatura en Español y Lenguas Extranjeras at Universidad Santo Tomás where she teaches English, Phonetics and Phonology, and English Literature and Culture. She defines her pedagogy as active and
student-centered, aiming to teach starting from empathy. Her research interests lie in the philosophy of education, pedagogy, sociolinguistics, and narratives.
