Dr.
Consuelo Navarro earned her Ph. D. in 1997 in Hispanic & Luso-Brazilian Literature
& Linguistics from the University of Minnesota. She is an Assistant Professor at the
Department of Foreign Languages. Her main areas of interest within the profession are 20th
Century Latin American Literature, Civilization and Film. She also does work in Theatre.
Dr. Navarro is currently organizing the VCU Foreign Languages on Stage.
Dr. Navarro has presented papers and published articles in the United States, Costa Rica,
and Brazil. She has an article in review in France. In April 2002, Dr. Navarro will
present "A ferro e fogo: em carne viva: A dialetica da paixao em Chico Buarque de
Hollanda." This paper will be read at the 55th Kentucky Foreign Language
Conference to be held in Lexington. Dr. Navarro is a native speaker of Spanish.
She has a near native fluency in French, English and Portuguese. Upon her arrival at VCU
she was awarded a Community Associates grant for the curricular development and the
teaching of Spanish for Medical Professionals. She has been teaching this course at
MCV campus of VCU since 1998.
Other interdisciplinary courses that Dr. Navarro has developed and taught at VCU
include:
- Masculinity and Femininity: The Construction of Sexual
Identity in Latin America
- The Lost 'gringo' in the Land of the Sun: Culture and Religious Wars in Latin America
- Film and History: The Afro-Brazilian Experience
- Latin American Women Filmmakers and the Construction of Womanhood
- La historia del cine y el cine en la historia de America Latina
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