Elena Valenzuela, 2008 Voicey Award Judge, Best Foreign Voice

Elena Valenzuela, B.A. (Carleton), M.A. (U of Ottawa), PhD. (McGill University) is the judge for the Best Foreign Voice category and graciously took up the challenge in this first year of the category’s existence.

Elena Valenzuela specializes in second language acquisition, bilingualism, Hispanic linguistics, syntax, morphology and is an Assistant Professor at the University of Western Ontario in the faculty of Modern Languages and Literatures.

Modern Languages and Literatures offers a variety of undergraduate courses and program options in Comparative Literature and Culture, German, and Spanish. Courses in Italian, Japanese, Arabic, Portuguese, Korean, Russian and Polish language and culture are also offered.

The Department also offers graduate programs in Spanish (MA) and Comparative Literature (MA and PhD). Recent graduates from Western’s Comparative Literature and Spanish MA programs have won fellowships to such prestigious universities as Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, and the University of Toronto.