Andrea Blanco Pérez comes to the department from Talavera de la Reina, Spain and is the Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant. In this capacity, she serves as the Director of the Luce Hall Spanish Suite in addition to collaborating with faculty and students on a variety of cultural projects and endeavors in and outside of the classroom. She holds a BA in Modern Languages from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, an MA in Hispanic Linguistics from the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, and an MA in Multilingualism and Education from the Universidad del País Vasco.