| Job: |
Assistant Professor of Writing |
| Hometown: |
Córdoba, Argentina |
| Favorites: |
Enjoying the calm pace at home, a small farm with horses and good air |
| One thing I am: |
Self-taught computer techie |
Originally, I came to Middlebury to work at the Center for Educational Technology.
I was one of the early people to get versed in technology — which was not being used in education at the time — because I figured it was going to impact how we teach. I taught myself how to work with various technologies in the liberal arts, specifically for writing and literature.
I’m always amazed at how much students teach me. They come from such different walks of life. Some come from the best prep schools on the planet, and then there are kids from Burma and Nepal and China and urban America, and they tell you so much about their lives and their sacrifices.
Many Middlebury students today are saying, “I’m going back home, and I’m doing something for my community.” Part of this is economic globalization, part of it is technology and the very real notion that knowledge can be used anywhere.
Every time I go into the classroom, I try to remember that we are educating people who are going to be leaders of Sri Lanka, of Nepal, of Afghanistan, of Palestine, of the U.S. We are educating those people who are going to go back and lead major endeavors in all these parts of the world.