Senior Lecturer in Spanish
Mildred Basker-Seigel has served two tenures as Overall Coordinator of the Spanish Language Program, and has also served as the Coordinator of the beginner and intermediate levels of the Spanish Four-Skills and Reading Sequence.
Basker-Seigel has published and co-published various course books, a lab manual and a study guide for Gabriel García Márquez’ novel El coronel no tiene quien le escriba. She also teaches the graduate seminar in Spanish for Reading Proficiency, and a 300-level topics course “The techniques of Literary Translation’. She has experience with literary, medical and legal translations, as well as translations of children’s stories. She is a participating faculty member in the MFA in Literary Translation and she assists in mentorship of the students. Her interests lie in literary and academic translation as well as teaching strategies and materials that provide an inclusive environment and which incorporate diverse learning styles in the classroom.