Exploring Spain: Un recorrido por la historia y la cultura de Espana

Lola Lorenzo, (PhD, University of Nebraska-Lincoln) has a B.A. in Art History (Autonoma University, Madrid, Spain) and a Ph.D. in Spanish Literature and Culture (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2007). Her dissertation, "Sensibilidad melodramática y metamelodrama en Benito Pérez Galdós y Pedro Almodóvar," (Melodrama and Metamelodrama in Benito Perez Galdos and Pedro Almodovar) links the work of the nineteenth century novelist with the films of the present-day director through the notion of 'meta-melodrama,' a type of melodrama that displays a combination of identification and distance (Verfredung) without preventing the cathartic function. Dr. Lorenzo has published two textbooks on the Hispanic fields: Advanced Reading for Comprehension Workbook (in collaboration with Dr. Ana M. López-Aguilera) and Exploring Spain: Un recorrido por la historia y la cultura de España (in collaboration with Jenifer Isasi and Naroa Puente).

Other areas of interest are the social and political history of Spain and the connections between culture and politics. For several years she has taught an ample variety of classes at the University level. She has experience teaching, coordinating and designing basic, intermediate and advanced language classes, as well as upper level courses. She uses a variety of educational approaches and she is particularly interested in incorporating culture and technology in her teaching.