Juan Pastene

Juan has worked for the Middlebury program in Chile since its beginnings, first as professor of the Writing for Linguistic and Cultural Competence course and as a journalist for a newspaper in Valparaíso. Following this he served as the Interim Director from 2016-2018, and became Director of the School in Chile in 2018. Juan studied both Spanish and Journalism at the Universidad de Playa Ancha at Valparaíso. He has taught at the undergraduate and graduate levels in the major of Journalism and Public Administration at the Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaíso (PUCV), respectively. He obtained an M.A. in Communications from PUCV, and studied at SUNY-Plattsburgh and McGill University, as well. Today, Juan is working on his PhD thesis in Latin American Literature from PUCV. Contemporary Chilean literature, marginalization, transnationalism and hegemony are among Juan’s academic interests.