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Sylvia Trelles
Professor of Spanish Foreign Languages
strelles@guilford.edu
(336) 316-2209
“Teaching at Guilford is rewarding; our students are willing to delve deeply into their work and they accept that often we are exploring together; I am learning with them and from them in dialog.”
Ph.D., Spanish Literature, 1984, University of Michigan
M.A., French, 1971, University of Michigan
B.A., French, 1969, Ripon College
Research Interests
- Golden Age Spanish literature
- Mutual influencing of Peninsular and Latin-American cultures through centuries of contact
Courses Taught
- SPAN 201: Intermediate Spanish
- SPAN 202: Intermediate Conversation and Composition
- SPAN 211: Intermediate Spanish for Business I
- SPAN 212: Intermediate Spanish for Business II
- SPAN 220: Introduction to Literary and Cultural Analysis
- SPAN 221: Advanced Spanish for Business
- SPAN 310: Contemporary Latin America
- SPAN 311: Contemporary Spain
- SPAN 320: Culture and Society: Mexico, Central America and Caribbean
- SPAN 321: Culture and Society: Golden Age of Spain
- SPAN 322: Culture and Society: South America
- SPAN 323: Culture and Society: Beginnings of a Nation (the Integration of Three Cultures)
- SPAN 340: Film, Life and Literature of Latin America
- SPAN 342: Latino Culture in the United States

