Dr. Mario Blanc
Courses | Professional Experience
Contact Information |
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| Title: | Professor of Spanish |
| Office Hours: |
MRP 2035 |
| E-mail: | blancma@csus.edu |
| Office Phone: |
(916) 278-5862 |
| Mailing Address: |
Sacramento State University Foreign Languages Department 6000 J Street Sacramento, CA 95819-6087 |
Courses for Spring 2012
- Span 114 - Syllabus
- Span 130 - Syllabus
- Span 142 - Syllabus
- Span 224C - Syllabus
Professional Experience
Dr. Mario A. Blanc is a Professor of Spanish in the Department of Foreign Languages. He received his B.S., and M.A. from Brigham Young University and his Ph.D. in Spanish with a concentration in Latin American Literature from the Department of Spanish at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas. His area of research and scholarship is Latin American prose, and he has published three books: Las Rimas (Gustavo Adolfo Béquer): su modernidad, Martín Fierro (José Hernández) y el romanticismo, and Texto de introducción a la literatura hispánica.
Dr. Blanc acquired much of his experience with Latin America by directing and teaching in the CSUS Summer Programs over the past fourteen years in: Morelia, Cuernavaca, and Guadalajara, Mexico; Heredia , Costa Rica and Guatemala; Arequipa, Peru; and Burgos, Spain. Prior to his arrival at Sacramento State, he taught for four years as an assistant professor at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. Before that, he taught for two years as an Assistant Graduate Student at BYU, and for four years at the University of Kansas in Lawrence.At CSUS, Dr. Blanc routinely teaches courses in the area of Spanish conversation, Hispanic Literature, and Latin American Literature, serves as the faculty advisor for the Spanish Club and Sigma Delta Pi, the National Spanish Honor Society, and enjoys helping his students plan their study abroad programs to such places as the Universidad de Belgrano in Buenos Aires, Argentina, his country of origin.
Last updated: 02/07/2012 (ta)
