Isabel Durocher received her PH.D. from Tulane University in 2002 with a concentration in Twentieth and Nineteenth Century Latin American Literature and with a secondary concentration in Twentieth Century Iberian Literature and Film. She has also studied in the University of Barcelona, Spain. She has given scholarly papers at various national and international conferences. Her interests include Transatlantic Studies, the Fantastic genre, Magic Realism, Surrealism in Latin America and Spain, European Modernism and Avant-Garde esthetic movements in Latin America, film and the visual arts. She teaches all areas and levels of Latin American Literature, Latin American and Peninsular civilization and culture, and introductory, intermediate and advanced Spanish Language classes at Loyola University New Orleans.
Dr. Durocher is an advisor for Spanish Minors, and an Honorary Member and organizer of the National Spanish Honor Society Sigma Delta Pi.
Dr. Durocher received the 2016 Excellence in Teaching Award from the College of Humanities and Natural Sciences.
Degrees
Ph.D. Tulane University, 2002; M.A. Tulane University, 1992; B.A. Sophie Newcomb College,1989.
Classes Taught
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First Year Spanish I & II
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Second Year Spanish I & II
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Syntax and Composition
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Intensive Conversation
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Advanced Spanish Language Courses 494 level
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Latin American Civilization and Culture I & I
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Contemporary Civilization and Culture of Spain through film
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Introduction to Hispanic Literature
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Jorge Luis Borges Eccentric Writing
- Dreams, Myths and Surrealism
- Hispanic, Lusophone and Chicano Women Filmmakers
Areas of Expertise
- Spanish Language and Spanish (Iberian) and Latin American Culture.
- Spanish Film
- Latin American Film
- Jorge Luis Borges