Ann G. Moncayo studied Spanish and Latin American Literature and received her B.A. (Phi Beta Kappa), M.A. and Ph.D (1993) at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. Dr. Moncayo taught ESL, American and English Literature at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador in Quito and Spanish at the Academia Cotopaxi in Quito. After that, she returned to the United States in 1987 to teach Spanish at Rollins College, the University of Michigan as a Teaching Fellow, Bucknell University, Fort Hays State University and Wingate University.

Because of her seventeen years of residence in Ecuador, Dr. Moncayo has been involved in international study. She participated in the University of Michigan summers in Seville for two years and traveled to Mexico to establish the agreement for student exchange between Fort Hays State and the Universidad Autónoma de Guadalajara. At Wingate University she led three W’International seminars to Chile and Argentina.

Dr. Moncayo specializes in classical rhetorical devices of biography found in the medieval histories of Alfonso X the Wise. Her thesis is titled : “The Use of Rhetoric in Biographical Portraits of the Twelve Roman Emperors in Alfonso the X's Primera crónica general” directed by Charles F. Fraker. She has presented various papers at the International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo.

Education: B.A., M.A. and Ph.D, University of Michigan
 

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Dr. Mark W. Schuhl
Associate Professor of Spanish and Chair of the Department
mschuhl@wingate.edu
704.233.8052