She is multilingual in Chinese, English, Spanish, and Portuguese. A native of China, she majored in Spanish language and literature, earning a B. A. from Beijing University, and a M. A. and Ph. D. from the University of Arizona. Before coming to Carthage in 1996, she was a visiting assistant professor of Spanish at Illinois Wesleyan University. She also has held teaching posts at the University of Arizona, Randolph-Macon Woman's College, and Dartmouth College. A recipient of numerous scholarships and awards and a frequent speaker of national and international conferences, she is the author of a dozen of articles on literature, painting and pedagogy published in national and international journals. She won 2004 Wisconsin Global Educator Award. Dr Beatriz Gomez