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Harry Vélez Quiñones
Associate Professor of Spanish
My Background
I was born in San Juan,
Puerto Rico, a
beautiful island which I am sure you would like to visit sometime. I lived in San Juan until just after finishing high
school and then went to college at
Washington University.
After a couple of years in Saint Louis I left for
Madrid,
Spain, to study during my junior year. It
was while living there that I decided that I would become a literary scholar
and a teacher. Once I left college, I
enrolled in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University
where, several years later, I earned my Ph.D. in Spanish Literature. In 1990, after finishing my doctoral dissertation,
I joined the Department
of Foreign Languages and Literature at the University of Puget Sound where I have been teaching,
writing, and having fun until today. In 1998
I met my partner, Jason Stratton, who is a wonderful
cook. Formerly the sous-chef at Café
Juanita in Kirkland, WA, Jason is now working with
Jerry
Traunfeld at his new
restaurant in Capitol Hill, Poppy. But
before I go on and on, here's my curriculum vitae,
the document that spells out all of the academic information above.
Finally, if you are curious to know what do I look like, just
click right here.
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Contact: velez@ups.edu