Dianne Zandstra, Professor
Director, Semester in Peru
(In Peru Fall 2012)
(616) 526-6353
zand@calvin.edu
Office: Hiemenga 407
Educational background
BA (Secondary Education, French and Spanish) Calvin College 1974
MA (Spanish) Michigan State University 1993
PhD (Spanish Language and Literature) Michigan State University 2001
Academic interests
Latin American literature; Argentine literature, specifically the grotesque and novels of Griselda Gambaro
Recent activities
Assistant editor, Journal of Christianity and Foreign Language; recently published her dissertation entitled Embodying Resistance: Griselda Gambaro and the Grotesque; executive committee of Michigan Academy of Arts and Sciences, and is the Calvin coordinator for hosting the Michigan Academy at Calvin in March 2010
Hobbies
Singing, reading, gardening
Spanish-speaking countries visited
Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Mexico, Guatemala, Paraguay, Peru, Spain
