Cristina Percoco

Cristina Percoco has extensive experience teaching and coordinating Spanish language courses, as well as teaching conversation and compositions courses. She has also taught upper-level courses on the literature and culture of Spain, in particular on women writers. Before coming to Villanova, she has taught at Oxford College of Emory University and at the University of Pennsylvania.

Education:

• Ph.D., University of Virginia
• M.A., University of Virginia
• B.A., Colgate University

Areas of Interest:

• Later nineteenth and twentieth-century Peninsular narrative
• Gender and women's writing
• Language program evaluation

Publications:

• “El objeto seductor: Carnaval, amor y deseo en ‘El dominó verde’ de Emilia Pardo Bazán.” Actas del XVI Congreso de la Asociación Internacional de Hispanistas: Nuevos caminos del hispanismo. Vol. 2 (2010): Ponencia nº 186. Paris, France.
• “Jazz and Mise en abyme in Antonio Muñoz Molina’s El invierno en Lisboa: A Representation of the Postmodern Aesthetic.” España Contemporánea, Tomo XVII, Número 2 (Otoño 2004): 7-20.
• “Opening Strategy and the Self as Illusion in Borges’ ‘El otro.’” Variaciones Borges 16 (2003): 109-120.

Companies

• Faculty Program Coordinator, Villanova Summer Abroad in Cadiz, Spain Villanova University (2019)
• Assistant Teaching Professor, Coordinator of Spanish Language Program Villanova University (2014)
• Spanish Instructor Villanova University (2013 — 2014)
• Lecturer in Spanish University of Pennsylvania (2008 — 2013)
• Coordinator, Penn in Alicante Summer Study Abroad Program in Spain University of Pennsylvania (2009 — 2009)
• Lecturer/Assistant Professor of Spanish Emory University, Oxford College (2005 — 2008)
• Co-Director, Iberian Studies Summer Program, Center for International Studies Abroad Emory University (2008 — 2008)