Megan Mercedes Echevarría
Director, Spanish International Engineering Program Associate Professor, Spanish and Film Media
Dr. Echevarría has a BA in International Studies, and an MA and PhD in Spanish Literature. She joined URI's faculty in 2004 and has directed the Spanish International Engineering Program (SIEP) since May 2008. She also collaborates with the College of Business Administration in the development of a similar Spanish International Business Program. Her teaching at URI has included courses at all levels of the Spanish undergraduate and graduate curricula, as well as courses in Film Media. She also has teaching experience in the areas of Education, International Studies, and Languages Across the Curriculum. Dr. Echevarría has taught at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the University of Navarra (Spain), the University of Miami (Florida) and the University of Richmond (Virginia). While in her research Dr. Echevarría demonstrates the same versatility that characterizes her teaching, her scholarship to date focuses primarily on the general areas of foreign language pedagogy and contemporary Spanish narrative.
Education
PhD in Spanish Literature, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
MA in Spanish Literature, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
BA in International Studies, University of Richmond
Teaching
Methodologies of Teaching Spanish as a Second Language
The Modern Spanish Novel
Nineteenth Century Spanish Literature
Oral and Dramatic Presentation of Hispanic Literature
Spanish for Business and Technology
Critical Studies in Hispanic Cinema
Spanish Literature and Culture Since 1700
Advanced Conversation and Writing through Literary Analysis
Contemporary Spanish Culture
Introduction to Hispanic Literatures and Literary Analysis
Language Review through Twentieth-Century Hispanic Narrative
Advanced Conversation through Contemporary Culture and Society
Honors Grammar, Writing, and Translation through Service Learning
Grammar and Writing
Spanish Language and Style I
Spanish for Health Professionals
Business Spanish
Spanish for Juridical Professionals
Beginning and Intermediate Spanish
Intensive Beginning Spanish for False Beginners
Curricular Development
Film 451 Topics in International Film: Cuban Film
Grand Challenges Seminar: Planetary Stewardship (an introduction to Global Environmental Sustainability and Green Engineering co-developed and co-taught with Dr. Vinka Craver and Dr. Damon Rarick)
Selected Publications
Echevarría, Megan M. “La evolución de la novela histórica española del siglo XIX al siglo XX: Benito Pérez Galdós y Arturo Barea.” Actas del IX Congreso Internacional Galdosiano. (Forthcoming).
Echevarría, Megan M. and Ignacio Pérez Ibáñez. “La presencia de la muerte en El lápiz del carpintero de Manuel Rivas.” Actas del Congreso Internacional. Necrofilia y necrofobia: Representaciones de la muerte en la literatura hispánica. (Forthcoming).
Echevarría, Megan M. and Ignacio Pérez Ibáñez. “El centro de recursos para la enseñanza de lenguas: Tecnología, colaboración y calidad en la enseñanza del español como lengua extranjera.” Actas del XIX Congreso Internacional ASELE. (Forthcoming).
Echevarría, Megan M. ¡Anda! Letras for ¡Anda! Curso intermedio. Audrey L. Heining-Boynton, Jean LeLoup and Glynis S. Cowell. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 2010.
Heining-Boynton, Audrey, Glynis S. Cowell and Jean LeLoup with Megan M. Echevarría, María del Carmen Caña Jiménez and Antonio Gragera. ¡Anda! Curso intermedio. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 2010.
Echevarría, Megan M., Ignacio Pérez Ibáñez and Damon Rarick. “Taking International Engineering Education to the Next Level: Languages in the Engineering Curriculum.” Eds. L. Gómez Chova, D. Martí Belenguer, and I. Candel Torres. EDULEARN09 Proceedings. Valencia: International Association of Technology, Education and Development (IATED), 2009, 324-330.
Echevarría, Megan M. ¡Anda! Curso Elemental Student Activities Manual to accompany ¡Anda! Curso elemental. Audrey Heining-Boynton and Glynis Cowell. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 2009.
Adams, Catalina, Steve Johnson, María Concepción Lucas Murillo, and Kimberlee Sallee in collaboration with Megan Echevarría. ¡Con brío! Student Workbook to accompany ¡Con brío! Conchita Lucas Murillo and Laila Dawson. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2008.
Echevarría, Megan M. “El nuevo romanticismo en Valor y miedo.” Ojáncano: Revista de Literatura Española Vol. 29 (April 2006): 37-61.
Echevarría, Megan M. and Ignacio Pérez Ibáñez. “La utilización de materiales culturales en el aula de español para extranjeros nivel principiantes: dos propuestas prácticas.” Actas VII Congreso: Cultura europea. Pamplona: EUNSA, 2005.Selected Honors
URI Foundation Competitive Course Development Grant. 2009
Research Grant in Honor of John Wolf. Consortium of College and University Media Centers. 2008
Students' Undergraduate Teaching Award. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 2003
Research Fellowship. University of Navarra. 2001-2002
IBM Instructional Technology Grant. 2000
Departmental Fellowship. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 1997-1998
President's Recognition Scholarship. University of Richmond. 1992-1996
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Contact information
Dr. Megan Mercedes Echevarría
Professor & Director
Spanish International Engineering Program
137 Swan Hall
p: 401.874.4698
f: 401.874.7088
e: mme@uri.edu
