Roberto Cortina

Mr. Roberto Cortina
Associate Professor
Modern Languages

Biography:

Assistant Professor of Spanish and Translation Studies Robert Cortina was born in Camagüey, Cuba, in 1940. He attended elementary and secondary school with the Marist Brothers, graduating in 1957 to enroll in Saint Thomas of Villanueva University in Havana, Cuba. Due to the Castro revolution the university closed in February 1958.

In the fall of 1958, he came to the United States to study at Texas A&I University-Kingsville, four months before the Castro takeover. At Texas A&I, he taught as a graduate teaching assistant from 1964-1966 and as an instructor in the Modern Languages Department from 1966-1970. Cortina received a University Fellowship for postgraduate studies at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island and attended from 1970-1973, and he taught for one year at Brown as a graduate teaching assistant.

Cortina then began teaching at TSC in the fall of 1976. He has taught all levels Spanish and ESL. From 1979-1981, he served as coordinator for ESL program for the Continuing Education Division, and then returned to the Modern Languages Department in 1981 to teach lower-level undergraduate Spanish and ESL. In 1992, he was appointed as an assistant professor with the UTB/TSC partnership and has been teaching bilingual students ever since.

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CV/VITAE: Cortina Vitae

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