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 Ian Althouse
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Currently a sixth year PhD candidate in the Department of Spanish & Portuguese at Yale University, I proudly consider undergraduate language pedagogy a defining aspect of my academic career. I enjoy developing innovative curricula, in both face-to-face and online classrooms, and sharing best pedagogical practices with my colleagues. In the spring of 2015, I was the recipient of the Grand Prize in the Online Education Innovation Grant competition given by the Yale CTL for my work creating a collaborative, multimodal reading module online. In the fall of 2015, the Intermediate Spanish II program, in collaboration with the Yale University Art Gallery, piloted a program of my design encouraged to get students out of the classroom and encountering cultural artifacts face-to-face. The program continues to be a successful and integral part of the course’s curriculum.

I am dedicated to the purposeful integration of online technologies, art, and history into my language instruction. These interests are also reflected in my literary research interests, which include the relationship between the technologies of modernization and poetic expression, the writing of queer characters, the use of footnotes in fiction, and the body as propaganda. My dissertation research, concentrating on 20th and 21st century Spanish American literature, investigates the use of sexuality as part of the novel’s symbolic system.

Please feel free to browse my C.V. (updated Nov. 2016) or reach me at ian.althouse@yale.edu.