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MARIA ESFORMES Dr. Maria Esformes received her M.A. degree from the University of Washington (Seattle) and a Ph.D. from University of Colorado (Boulder). Before coming to USF, Dr. Esformes was a faculty member in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Massachusetts (Amherst) and a Mellon Fellow at Harvard University. While at Harvard she taught in the Department of Folklore and Mythology. Most recently she was a Visiting Scholar at Oxford University (England) where she did research and lectured in the Oxford University Center for Hebrew and Jewish Studies. Dr. Esformes is the recipient of two Senior Fulbright Lecturer and Scholar awards. As a Fulbright scholar she has taught and done research at the University of Athens (Greece) and at the University of Granada (Spain). She also taught in Florence, Italy and has received various teaching awards while at USF. She received two Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Awards and two TIP awards (Teaching Incentive Program Award for Excellence in Teaching.) Dr. Esformes has published extensively on various aspects of Sephardic Studies with an emphasis on the history, literature and folklore of the Greek Sephardim. She speaks fluent Judeo-Spanish (Ladino), Spanish, and Modern Greek. Her most recent publications include detailed studies of contemporary Judeo-Spanish poetry, the literature of Albert Cohen, the autobiography of Elias Canetti, Sephardi folktales, and various other topics on the history and culture of the Sephardim. She has received various research grants from the University of South Florida, the National Endowment for the Humanities, American Philosophical Society, and Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture.
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