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Christine Goring Kepner
Associate Professor of Spanish
On faculty since 1977

Phone: (630)752-5799
E-mail: Christine.G.Kepner@wheaton.edu


Education

(Sabbatical) Latin American Film, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2002

Ed.D., Curriculum and Instruction, Northern Illinois University, 1989

Hispanic Theatre, University of Chicago, 1983

M.A., Spanish: Peninsular and Spanish-American Literature, University of Kansas, 1977.  (National Defense Foreign Language Fellow: 1976-77)

Mexican Literature, Universidad de Guadalajara, Mexico, 1974-1975

B.S.E., Spanish/Secondary Education, University of Kansas, 1974 (with honors)

 
Professional and Personal Interests
Co-director of Wheaton in Spain.

Courses Taught

Spanish 331  (Spanish Conversation)
Spanish 332  (Spanish Advanced Grammar and Composition)
Spanish 336  (Survey of Spanish Literature)
Spanish 337  (Survey of Spanish American Literature)
Spanish 494  (Senior Seminar: Women in Literature and Film)

Membership in Professional Societies

Association of Literary Scholars and Critics (ALSC)

Conference on Christianity and Literature

Midwest Modern Language Association (MMLA)

North American Christian Foreign Language Association (NACFLA)

Research

Current research and teaching interests: Hispanic women writers, Hispanic film, the Spanish mystics, Calderón, second-language writing.

Papers Published and/or Presented

Kepner, Christine Goring and Phyllis Mitchell: "Comer caliente: The
meaning of food in Un calor tan cercano and La voz dormida." Monographic
Review/Revista Monográfica, Vol XXI (2005), 146-166.

"An Experiment in the Relationship of Types of Written Feedback to the Development of Writing Proficiency in Intermediate-Level Students of Spanish."  Modern Language Journal, fall 1991, 75 (iii), 305-313.

"Three Films of María Luisa Bemberg: A Female gaze." Journal of Christianity and Foreign Languages, spring 2003, 4, 40-61.

Senior Teaching Achievement Award, 1997-98, Wheaton College