{"id":2724,"date":"2023-02-28T16:35:32","date_gmt":"2023-03-01T00:35:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/english\/?post_type=staff&#038;p=2724"},"modified":"2025-08-28T15:58:40","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T22:58:40","slug":"j-engel-szwaja-franken","status":"publish","type":"staff","link":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/english\/staff\/j-engel-szwaja-franken\/","title":{"rendered":"J. Engel Szwaja-Franken, Ph.D"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I have been a full-time Spanish professor at BC since 2014. When the opportunity arises, I teach French and courses in the English department as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am a literary scholar by training. I completed a Ph.D. in comparative literature at the University of California, Irvine and&nbsp;a B.A. in history and comparative literature at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. My research concerns the politics of literature as a field in early 20<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;century Latin America, especially in post-revolutionary Mexico.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My interest in learning languages came from my passion for literature and history. I am Panamanian-American and grew up partly in Costa Rica, so Spanish is one of my native languages. However, I have spent much of my life as a student of other languages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of my goals for Bellevue College is to have a robust, sustainable course for heritage speakers of Spanish. The course now exists and has run several times, and I hope it can become a regular offering in the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Courses Taught:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Spanish 100 series (First-year Spanish)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Spanish 200 series (Second-year Spanish)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Spanish 231\/232 (Spanish for Heritage Speakers)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>French 100 series (First-year French)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>English 101 (English Composition)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>English 111 (Intro to Literature)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>English 201 (The Research Paper)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>English 271\/272 (Expository Writing)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2805,"featured_media":2727,"parent":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-2724","staff","type-staff","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/staff\/2724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/staff"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/staff"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2805"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/staff\/2724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2804,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/staff\/2724\/revisions\/2804"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}