Sara N. Colburn-Alsop Title: Associate Professor of Spanish Department: Modern Foreign Languages Office Location: Main 309 Office Phone: (317) - 738 - 8257 E-mail Address: scolburnalsop@franklincollege.edu

Dr. Sara Colburn-Alsop earned her B.A. in Spanish and English in 1993 from Ripon College in Wisconsin. She completed her M.A. in Hispanic Language and Literature in 1994 through Middlebury College during a summer of intensive study on the Vermont campus and a year in Madrid, Spain. She earned her doctorate in Peninsular Literature at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana in 2002. In 2007, Dr. Colburn-Alsop became an associate professor of Spanish at Franklin College.

Currently, she teaches all different level courses in the Spanish Program, among them "Spanish in the Workplace," "Altruism and Civic Engagement in the Latino Community," "Chicano-Riqueños," and, "Uncovering Latin America: Getting to Know the Unknown." Additionally, she is a member of the Intercultural Honors Experience team and co-created and co-taught the first seminar course, Encounter, Conflict & Cultural Survival: The Indigenous Peoples of Latin America.

Colburn-Alsop has traveled with students to Guadalajara for the Spanish immersion trip during Winter Term every other year since she began at FC in 2001.

She and her husband enjoy spending time with family and traveling all over the world.

Colburn-Alsop recently edited an unabridged edition of María de Zayas's Novelas ejemplares for Cervantes & Company Classics, which will be published in 2008.