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Esther Sanchez-Couto

Title: Senior Lecturer

Department: Spanish

College: College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences

Curriculum Vitae

Curriculum Vitae Link

Education

  • PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2013
    Major: Romance Languages and Literatures
    Specialization: Romance Languages: Hispanic Literature
    Dissertation: "Representaciones del silencio en la narrativa femenina de España y México (1990-2012)"
  • MA, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 2008
    Major: Spanish
  • Certificate, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 2000
    Major: Certificate of Pedagogical Aptitude
  • BA, Universidade de Vigo, Spain, 1999
    Major: Spanish

Current Scheduled Teaching

SPAN 3004.401Advanced CompositionSpring 2025
SPAN 3003.401Advanced GrammarSpring 2025
SPAN 1020.002Elementary SpanishSpring 2025
SPAN 3004.401Advanced CompositionFall 2024 Syllabus
SPAN 3003.401Advanced GrammarFall 2024 Syllabus
SPAN 3003.402Advanced GrammarFall 2024 Syllabus
SPAN 1010.006Elementary SpanishFall 2024 Syllabus
Texas Education Code 51.974 (HB 2504) requires each institution of higher education to make available to the public, a syllabus for undergraduate lecture courses offered for credit by the institution.

Previous Scheduled Teaching

SPAN 3004.002Advanced CompositionSpring 2024 Syllabus SPOT
SPAN 3003.003Advanced GrammarSpring 2024 Syllabus SPOT
SPAN 1010.001Elementary SpanishSpring 2024 Syllabus SPOT
SPAN 3004.003Advanced CompositionFall 2023 Syllabus SPOT
SPAN 3003.002Advanced GrammarFall 2023 Syllabus SPOT
SPAN 3003.005Advanced GrammarFall 2023 Syllabus SPOT
SPAN 1010.006Elementary SpanishFall 2023 Syllabus SPOT
SPAN 3004.002Advanced CompositionSpring 2023 Syllabus SPOT
SPAN 3003.003Advanced GrammarSpring 2023 Syllabus SPOT
SPAN 1010.001Elementary SpanishSpring 2023 Syllabus SPOT
SPAN 1010.012Elementary SpanishSpring 2023 Syllabus SPOT
SPAN 3004.003Advanced CompositionFall 2022 Syllabus SPOT
SPAN 1010.002Elementary SpanishFall 2022 Syllabus SPOT
SPAN 1010.006Elementary SpanishFall 2022 Syllabus SPOT
SPAN 4310.001Survey of Spanish LiteratureFall 2022 Syllabus SPOT
SPAN 3004.002Advanced CompositionSpring 2022 Syllabus SPOT
SPAN 3003.003Advanced GrammarSpring 2022 Syllabus SPOT
SPAN 1010.001Elementary SpanishSpring 2022 Syllabus SPOT
SPAN 1010.005Elementary SpanishSpring 2022 Syllabus SPOT
SPAN 3004.003Advanced CompositionFall 2021 Syllabus SPOT
SPAN 3003.004Advanced GrammarFall 2021 Syllabus SPOT
SPAN 1010.002Elementary SpanishFall 2021 Syllabus SPOT
SPAN 1010.006Elementary SpanishFall 2021 Syllabus SPOT
SPAN 3003.003Advanced GrammarSpring 2021 Syllabus SPOT
SPAN 1010.001Elementary SpanishSpring 2021 Syllabus SPOT
SPAN 1010.002Elementary SpanishSpring 2021 Syllabus SPOT
SPAN 1010.003Elementary SpanishSpring 2021 Syllabus SPOT
SPAN 1010.005Elementary SpanishSpring 2021 Syllabus SPOT
SPAN 3004.002Advanced CompositionFall 2020 Syllabus SPOT
SPAN 3004.003Advanced CompositionFall 2020 Syllabus SPOT
SPAN 3003.001Advanced GrammarFall 2020 Syllabus SPOT
SPAN 1010.001Elementary SpanishFall 2020 Syllabus SPOT
SPAN 1010.001Elementary SpanishSpring 2020 Syllabus
SPAN 1010.002Elementary SpanishSpring 2020 Syllabus
SPAN 1010.005Elementary SpanishSpring 2020 Syllabus
SPAN 1010.006Elementary SpanishSpring 2020 Syllabus
SPAN 3003.001Advanced GrammarFall 2019 Syllabus SPOT
SPAN 1010.010Elementary SpanishFall 2019 Syllabus SPOT
SPAN 1030.001Review of Elementary SpanishFall 2019 Syllabus SPOT
SPAN 1030.002Review of Elementary SpanishFall 2019 Syllabus SPOT
SPAN 1010.002Elementary SpanishSpring 2019 Syllabus SPOT
SPAN 1020.001Elementary SpanishSpring 2019 Syllabus SPOT
SPAN 1020.002Elementary SpanishSpring 2019 Syllabus SPOT
SPAN 1020.020Elementary SpanishSpring 2019 Syllabus SPOT
SPAN 3003.002Advanced GrammarFall 2018 Syllabus SPOT
SPAN 1030.001Review of Elementary SpanishFall 2018 Syllabus SPOT
SPAN 1030.011Review of Elementary SpanishFall 2018 Syllabus SPOT
SPAN 1030.014Review of Elementary SpanishFall 2018 Syllabus SPOT
SPAN 1030.002Review of Elementary SpanishSpring 2018 Syllabus SPOT
SPAN 1030.004Review of Elementary SpanishSpring 2018 Syllabus SPOT
SPAN 1030.006Review of Elementary SpanishSpring 2018 Syllabus SPOT
SPAN 1030.007Review of Elementary SpanishSpring 2018 Syllabus SPOT
SPAN 2040.010Intermediate SpanishFall 2017 Syllabus SPOT
SPAN 2040.012Intermediate SpanishFall 2017 Syllabus SPOT
SPAN 1030.003Review of Elementary SpanishFall 2017 Syllabus SPOT
SPAN 1030.004Review of Elementary SpanishFall 2017 Syllabus SPOT
SPAN 3090.001Advanced Spanish Grammar IFall 2016 Syllabus SPOT
SPAN 3090.002Advanced Spanish Grammar IFall 2016 Syllabus SPOT
SPAN 3030.001Readings in Spanish American Short StoryFall 2016 Syllabus SPOT
SPAN 1030.005Review of Elementary SpanishFall 2016 Syllabus SPOT
SPAN 3060.003Advanced Spanish Composition and Oral PracticeSpring 2016 Syllabus SPOT
SPAN 3090.002Advanced Spanish Grammar ISpring 2016 Syllabus SPOT
SPAN 1010.016Elementary SpanishSpring 2016 Syllabus SPOT
SPAN 1020.023Elementary SpanishSpring 2016 Syllabus SPOT
SPAN 3060.002Advanced Spanish Composition and Oral PracticeFall 2015 Syllabus SPOT
SPAN 3090.001Advanced Spanish Grammar IFall 2015 Syllabus SPOT
SPAN 3090.002Advanced Spanish Grammar IFall 2015 Syllabus SPOT
SPAN 3090.003Advanced Spanish Grammar IFall 2015 Syllabus SPOT
SPAN 3060.002Advanced Spanish Composition and Oral PracticeSpring 2015 Syllabus
SPAN 3090.001Advanced Spanish Grammar ISpring 2015 Syllabus
SPAN 3090.002Advanced Spanish Grammar ISpring 2015 Syllabus
SPAN 3090.003Advanced Spanish Grammar ISpring 2015 Syllabus
SPAN 3060.001Advanced Spanish Composition and Oral PracticeFall 2014 Syllabus
SPAN 3060.003Advanced Spanish Composition and Oral PracticeFall 2014 Syllabus
SPAN 3060.008Advanced Spanish Composition and Oral PracticeFall 2014 Syllabus
SPAN 3090.008Advanced Spanish Grammar IFall 2014 Syllabus
SPAN 2050.021Intermediate SpanishFall 2014 Syllabus
SPAN 2040.011Intermediate SpanishSpring 2014 Syllabus
SPAN 2050.001Intermediate SpanishSpring 2014 Syllabus
SPAN 2050.005Intermediate SpanishSpring 2014 Syllabus
SPAN 2050.011Intermediate SpanishSpring 2014 Syllabus
SPAN 1020.005Elementary SpanishFall 2013 Syllabus
SPAN 1020.006Elementary SpanishFall 2013 Syllabus
SPAN 1020.012Elementary SpanishFall 2013 Syllabus
SPAN 2040.005Intermediate SpanishFall 2013 Syllabus
Texas Education Code 51.974 (HB 2504) requires each institution of higher education to make available to the public, a syllabus for undergraduate lecture courses offered for credit by the institution.

Published Intellectual Contributions

    Book Chapter

  • Sanchez-Couto, E. (2020). Del texto a la pantalla y de la pantalla al aula: Reescritura histórica en El corazón de la Tierra (2007). Desde el siglo XIX : Reescrituras, Traducciones, Transmedialidad. 273-279. Calambur.
  • Sanchez-Couto, E. (2019). El Ministerio del Tiempo viaja a la clase ELE americana: Una propuesta docente. Mito e Historia en la televisión y el cine español. 357-71. Albatros.
  • Sanchez-Couto, E. (2019). Usos Pedagógicos del documental historiográfico: La resistencia al Canon de Concepción Arenal (1820-1893). Numancia: Representaciones culturales de resistencia en el mundo hispánico. 195-210. Wisteria.
  • Sanchez-Couto, E. (2019). ¿Qué le duele?: Representaciones de la medicina en la pintura del siglo XIX. Literatura y Medicina: Teoría y Praxis (1800-1930). 1 17-37. Ediciones de La Torre.
  • Sanchez-Couto, E. (2017). La insurrección: Victoria Menor en la revolución sandinista de Nicaragua. Asedios a la narrativa de Antonio Skármeta.. 103-120. LIma, Universidad Ricardo Palma.
  • Sanchez-Couto, E. (2016). Silencios poderosos en La Muerte y la Doncella de Ariel Dorfman. Other. 187-95.

    • Book Review

  • Sanchez-Couto, E. (2015). Townsend, Tamara L. Memory and Identity in the Narratives of Soledad Puértolas: Constructing the Past and the Self. Lanham: Rowman & Lit- tlefield, 2014. 153 pp.. Romance Notes. 55 163-65.
  • Esther Sánchez-Couto. (2011). "Weldt-Besson, Helene Carol. Subversive Silences: Nonverbal Expression and Implicit Narrative Strategies in the Works of Latin American Women Writers. Madison: Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 2009. 277pp.". 163 97-99. Hispanófila.
  • Esther Sánchez-Couto. (2009). "Guerra, Lucía. Mujer y escritura. Fundamentos teóricos de la crítica feminista.". Letras Femeninas. 35 (2) 371-72.

    • Journal Article

  • Sanchez-Couto, E. (2017). Rubén Darío: Un poeta en busca de cuadros. Other. 23 285-297. Valladolid, Universitas Castellae.
  • Esther Sánchez-Couto. (2016). "Búsqueda de la identidad femenina en el teatro de Rosario Castellanos". 27 (2) 105-127. Hispanic Journal.
  • Esther Sánchez-Couto. (2014). "El desafío de la narración interior en Duerme de Carmen Boullosa". Letras Femeninas. 40 (2) 165-81.
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Overall
Summative Rating		 Challenge and
Engagement Index		 Response Rate

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  • Overall Summative Rating (median):
    This rating represents the combined responses of students to the four global summative items and is presented to provide an overall index of the class’s quality. Overall summative statements include the following (response options include a Likert scale ranging from 5 = Excellent, 3 = Good, and 1= Very poor):
    • The course as a whole was
    • The course content was
    • The instructor’s contribution to the course was
    • The instructor’s effectiveness in teaching the subject matter was
  • Challenge and Engagement Index:
    This rating combines student responses to several SPOT items relating to how academically challenging students found the course to be and how engaged they were. Challenge and Engagement Index items include the following (response options include a Likert scale ranging from 7 = Much higher, 4 = Average, and 1 = Much lower):
    • Do you expect your grade in this course to be
    • The intellectual challenge presented was
    • The amount of effort you put into this course was
    • The amount of effort to succeed in this course was
    • Your involvement in course (doing assignments, attending classes, etc.) was
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