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Melissa Garr, Ph.D.

  • Associate Professor of Spanish
Melissa Garr

I come from a military family and grew up in Puerto Rico, where I learned Spanish. I attended Duquesne University and earned a B.S. in Secondary Education and a B.A. in Spanish. I taught high school Spanish at Vincentian Academy in Pittsburgh and Ben Davis High School in Indianapolis. I earned my M.A. in Spanish through University of Northern Iowa's abroad programs in Spain and Mexico. I earned my Ph.D. in Spanish Literature at Purdue University. My specialty is Spanish Peninsular literature, 20th-21st century, and my subfield is genre fiction, especially detective fiction.