Josefa Pueyo Castán

Josefa (Pepa) Pueyo Castán is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Spanish at Wake Forest University. She earned her Ph.D. in Spanish from the University of Houston, where she pursued interdisciplinary graduate work encompassing language, literature, culture, and translation. She also holds an M.A. in Teaching Spanish as a Second Language from the Universitat de Barcelona and an M.A. in Translation Studies from Dublin City University. Prior to joining Wake Forest, she served as a Teaching Fellow at the University of Houston and taught AP Spanish Language and Culture and AP French Language and Culture in Texas public schools, as well as Spanish language and culture in Ireland and Poland.

Her teaching and research interests include second and third language acquisition, heritage Spanish, bilingualism, translation, and proficiency-oriented language pedagogy. Her dissertation, La adquisición del parámetro de los compuestos en hablantes de español L2 y de herencia: un estudio de la formación de palabras compuestas (N+N) en español y en francés, examines the acquisition of nominal compound formation in Spanish and French among L2 and heritage speakers.

Her publications include work on bilingualism, Spanish cinema, historical memory, migration, and translation, as well as poetry and short fiction published in literary journals and anthologies. She is an active member of Escritores Cronopios, a Houston-based literary organization dedicated to Spanish-language literature and creative writing. Outside of academia, she enjoys hiking, traveling, and creative writing. Among her personal accomplishments is trekking to Everest Base Camp.

• SPA 102: Elementary Spanish II
• SPA 201: Intermediate Spanish I

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