Norma C. Acuņa
Born in Guayaquil, ECUADOR

EDUCATION:

A.A. (1978) Glendale Community College, Glendale, CA

B.A. (1980) California State University, Los Angeles
Spanish and Education

M.A. (1985) California State University, Los Angeles
Major: Latin American Literature
Minors: Peninsular Literature and Linguistic

Postgraduate courses at the University Complutense de Madrid, Spain (1990)

Received the following honorable mentions:

(1979) Outstanding Student of the Foreign Language Department, California State University, Los Angeles.

(1980) Sigma Delta Pi, International Honor Society; Chapter Gamma Psi
Outstanding Educator, The Masonic Lodge of Glendale, California

(1985) Educator of the Year, Glendale Unified School District.

(1995) Scholarship to the Spanish Educator in a Foreign Country, School Miguel de Unamuno, Universidad de Salamanca, Spain.
Honorable Mention by Glendale Unified School District
Golden Apple Award, Pierce College, Woodland Hills, California

(2002) Special Scholarship to Foreign Language Educator by Societa Dante Alighieri, Universita di Camerino, Castelraimondo, Italy.

(2005) Who is who: Ecuador en el Mundo. A publication recognizing outstanding Ecuadorian citizens in a foreign country.

(2006) Honorary Service Award, Glendale Founders Day

RESEARCH INTEREST

Contemporary Latin American Literature
Ecuadorian Literature, with an emphasis in "El Grupo de Guayaquil"
movement
Literary Theory
Aesthetics
Philosophy