Get to know: Dinorah Scott

Get to know more about Dinorah Scott's background and interests through her answers to these questions.

Position: Assistant professor of Modern Language

Started at Whitworth: 2006

Originally from: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Undergraduate degree: Estácio de Sá University

Graduate degree: University of Mexico

Doctorate degree: University of Illinois at Chicago

Before Whitworth:
She worked as Brazillian cultural advisor with the  Brazillian embassy in Mexico City.

Classes she teaches:
-Elementary Spanish I

-Elementary Spanish II

-Spanish Linguistics

Favorite course:
Spanish Linguistics. It is a class she proposed and is now teaching for the first time.

If you weren't a teacher,  you would be...
"I would be some kind of researcher traveler. I just love getting to know people and visiting places."

Favorite author or book:
Open Veins of Latin America by Uruguayan author Eduardo Galeano.

"That was the book that Hugo Chavez gave to President Barack Obama at the Summit of the Americas," Dinorah said.

Most influential person in your life:
"Presently, I would have to say my husband."

Something not many people know about you

"I am a frustrated musician. I have a brother who is a talented musician," she said,

He plays the piano and attended a music conservatory in Rio de Janeiro.

Faculty page:

http://www.whitworth.edu/academic/faculty/index.aspx?username=dscott

Contact Tim Takechi at jtim.takechi@whitworthian.com.

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