Assistant Professor of Spanish
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University Hall 3171

Research and Teaching Interests: Spanish Medical interpreting, Spanish translation, Hispanic Contemporary Literature, Effects of violence in creation and reception of Literature in 20th Century Spain

Office Hours: By appointment

Education:

• BA, Los Andes University, Literature (Bogotá)
• MA, CEU San Pablo University, Journalism (Madrid)
• PhD, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Spanish Language and Literature (Lincoln)

María Anderson de la Torre attended Los Andes University where she studied Literature with a focus in Latin. She then worked as an editorialist and editor of opinion at El Tiempo (Bogotá) until she moved to Madrid in 2010 to earn a Master’s degree in Journalism at CEU San Pablo University. In 2012 she moved to the United States after being accepted at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln where she earned her Ph.D. in Spanish Language and Literature.

She has also taken her passion for translation into her classes to prepare students as future translators and medical interpreters. Her research focuses on how the production and reception of art is affected by war, specifically during the Spanish Civil War and she is interested in the linguistic challenges presented to translators and interpreters in the Hispanic world. Since 2012, she has been an opinion columnist at El Tiempo (Bogotá) and occasionally collaborates at the New York Times, where she writes about women’s rights, Latinos and the peace process in her home country, Colombia.