Michelle Geoffrion-Vinci

Michelle Geoffrion-Vinci, Professor of Spanish, joined the Foreign Languages & Literatures faculty in September, 1998. A specialist in contemporary literature of Spain and language-teaching methodologies, she researches Spanish women writers from the 19^th-century to the present. She is credited with numerous publications on 19th-century Spanish writer Rosalía de Castro (1837-1885) including On the Edge of the River Sar: A Feminist Translation (Teaneck, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2014), and on contemporary Spanish short story author Cristina Fernández Cubas (1945-). She has also co-authored a textbook for heritage speakers of Spanish (Carreira, Maria and Michelle Geoffrion-Vinci. ¡Sí se puede! [Yes, You Can!]. Boston: Cengage, 2009), and several articles on Spanish for heritage speakers and electronic portfolios for language learning and cultural literacy. Her latest project is The Angle of Horror by Cristina Fernández Cubas, a short story collection she edited and translated in collaboration with Professor Jessica Folkart (VA Tech). This book is her third with Fairleigh Dickinson UP and is scheduled to roll out later this year. Since joining the faculty at Lafayette, Michelle has been awarded the College’s Thomas Roy and Lura Forrest Jones Lecture Award, the Christian R. and Mary F. Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching, and the Marquis Distinguished Teaching Award. She also is a past recipient of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish & Portuguese Teacher of the Year Award (University Level).