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Dr. Natalia Santamaria Laorden is a Full Professor of Spanish at Ramapo College of New Jersey. Her work focuses on a transatlantic view of fin-de-siècle Spanish and Latin American literature. Since she completed her doctoral dissertation at Harvard University, her articles have appeared in journals including Decimonónica and Cuadernos Americanos, as well as the volume Decadence, Degeneration and the End (Palgrave Mc Millan, 2014). She has also collaborated as a translator for Asclepio, the journal on the history of medicine and science of the Spanish National Research Council. Dr. Santamaría Laorden was awarded two UISFL grants by the USA Department of Education in 2018 and 2020, as well as second place for language innovation, in the social and racial justice category by the AAUSC in 2019, for the creation of a Spanish for Health Care and Human Services Professionals certificate in Ramapo College. Based on this experience, she co-wrote the textbook Spanish for Health Care and Human Services: An Interdisciplinary Approach for Intermediate and Advanced Speakers (Cognella, 2022). In her efforts to provide a solid base in the humanities to the study of languages and health care, she was also elected as the first chair of the language for specific purposes special interest group in the American Council of Teaching for Foreign Languages in 2023.
