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Rossy Toledo is a Lecturer in the Department of Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures (MFLL) at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, where she has taught second-year and honors Spanish courses since 2002. She is also the university’s Technology Enhanced Teaching Faculty Fellow, leading innovations in online language instruction since 2010.
Education
- M.F.A. in Creative Writing, New York University, 2012
- M.A. in Spanish, University of Tennessee, 2002
- B.S. in Communications, University of Texas at Austin, 1994
Research & Creative Focus
Rossy Toledo's scholarly and creative work sits at the intersection of Hispanic cultural production, gender studies, and community-engaged pedagogy. Her research explores how Hispanic cinema, cultural competency, and service-learning methodologies can deepen students’ linguistic proficiency and intercultural awareness.
Creatively, she is an award-winning poet whose collections Pregonero Despertar de Voces (2013) and Azules Sueños Naranja (2013) examine transnational identity, migration, and gendered experience. She is presently completing a third poetry manuscript, Vacíos/Emptiness, and a second volume of the bilingual anthology Nos pasamos de la raya/We Crossed the Line.
Honors & Awards
- 2017 Teaching Innovation Award, University of Tennessee — for community-based digital storytelling project “Recording the Lives of East Tennessee Immigrants”
Teaching & Community Engagement
Since 2002 Toledo has directed upper-division service-learning initiatives that connect Spanish Honors students with local Latino communities through StoryCorps interviews and digital narrative projects. She also designed and continuously refines an online Intermediate Spanish sequence launched in 2010 and a specialized course, Spanish for Communications Majors: Journalism, Advertising, and Public Relations.
Digital Pedagogy Leadership
As Technology Enhanced Teaching Faculty Fellow, Toledo mentors faculty across disciplines in effective online course design and emerging instructional technologies.
