Laura Lopez

People

Laura Lopez

Languages, Literatures, & Cultures

Laura Lopez was born in Spain and grew up speaking three of the five official languages in Spain: Galician, Catalan and Spanish. She attended the University of Barcelona (UB, Universidad Central de Barcelona) where she obtained an Honors bachelor in Spanish and Hispanic philology. She was a middle and high school teacher in Barcelona and also taught Spanish as a Second Language at the University of San Sebastian in Spain. She graduated from UNCG with a Masters of Arts with a concentration in Spanish/Hispanic literature in 2005. She has been teaching at UNCG in Languages, Literatures, and Cultures for almost 10 years.

Laura Lopez is also certified in the Catalan Language (1998, native speaker level), certified in the Italian language at an advanced level by the University of Turin (2006, SAA: Università Degli Studi Di Torino), and in 2006 she also became officially certified to teach ESOL (English for Speakers of other Languages) through the University of Cambridge in the UK.