Kristen M Turpin

Lecturer in Hispanic Studies

Departments/Programs

Romance Studies

Degrees

University of Pennsylvania, Ph.D.
University of Pennsylvania, M.A.
University of Iowa, B.A.

Expertise

Latin American literature and culture
Foreign language curriculum design
Content-based language learning
Multiliteracies

Profile

Kristen Turpin teaches all levels of Spanish language and culture, with areas of expertise in writing, multiliteracies, integrated performance assessment, and content-based instruction. As a Comparative Literature Ph.D., she believes in the centrality of authentic texts and cultural content to the foreign language curriculum. In her classes, her students not only acquire language skills, but also investigate cultural differences, engage in higher-order thinking, and reflect critically about their place, roles, and responsibilities in society.

Courses Taught

HISP	104b	Peoples, Ideas, and Language of the Hispanic World
HISP	105a	Oral Communication through Cultural Topics
HISP	106b	Spanish for Written Communication through Contemporary Culture

Scholarship

Turpin, Kristen M. "Gender and Disability in Eduarda Mansilla's Literature for Children." Revista de Estudios Hispánicos (2019). (forthcoming)

Turpin, Kristen M. "Sustainability and the Foreign Language Curriculum." American Council for the Teaching of Foreign Languages, New Orleans, LA. November 2018.

Turpin, Kristen M. "Training Foreign Language Learners to be Peer Responders: A Multiliteracies Approach." L2 Journal 11. 1 (2019): 35-60.

Turpin, Kristen M. "Genre and Peer Review in the L2 Classroom." Northeastern Modern Language Association (NeMLA), Baltimore, MD. March 2017.

Turpin, Kristen M. "Genre-based Writing in the Communicative Curriculum." American Council for the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL), Nashville, TN. November 2017.

Turpin, Kristen M. "Lessons Abroad: Cosmopolitanism in El Periquillo Sarniento.." Hispanófila 176. January 2017 (2017): 117-135.