Khédija Gadhoum, born in Tunisia, North Africa, who is a U.S. citizen, graduated from Ohio State University with a specialization in contemporary Latin American Literature and Culture. Dr. Gadhoum is currently in the Department of Romance Languages at the University of Georgia, teaching Latin American Film, Hispanic Literature and Cultures, among other courses. Dr. Gadhoum promotes International Education: for several years directed Spanish Study Abroad Programs in Guadalajara, Mexico. At UGA, she also taught at UGA-Costa Rica Program in Monteverde. In Argentina, she co-directed the multi-media project Viaje sin fin: camino de las culturas, with two cultural documentaries: Crónicas de un viajesinfin: de Uyuni a Machu Picchu, and Beyond the Border: Latin America in Your Future. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Afro-Hispanic Review, Negritud: Journal of Afro-Latin American Studies, Ámbitos Feministas, The South Carolina Modern Language Review, Dos Orillas: El Estrecho de Gibraltar, among many others.

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