Bio Note

Dr. Jorge W. Suazo

 World Languages and Cultures

College of Arts & Humanities (CAH)

Georgia Southern University

Statesboro, GA, USA

Bio Note

I am Jorge W Suazo Jaque and I was born in San Carlos, Province of Ñuble, Chile. San Carlos is a small town located in central Chile and it is about 3:30 hours south of Santiago. It has a population of about 50,000 people.

I completed all my Elementary School in Escuela Particular No. 5 "Francisco Henríquez [Now Liceo Ntra. Sra. de la Merded]) and Escuela No. 3 (now Escuela E-139 Gral. Domingo Urrutia) and my High School in Escuela Consolidada de Experimentación [now Liceo Politécnico Ignacio Carrera Pinto] in San Carlos. 

After graduation, I attended Universidad de Chile-Sede Ñuble [now Universidad del Bío-Bío] in Chillán, Chile. Later, in 1979, I finsihed my B.A. in English Education from the Department of Modern Languages, Universidad de Chile-Chillán..

I came to the United States invited by the Amity Institute (of San Diego, California) in 1980. As an Amity Scholar, I team-taught Spanish at several high schools and a college, respectively, in West Virginia, Wisconsin and Virginia. My first assignment was with Parkersburg High School and Parkersburg South High School, in Parkersburg, West Virginia for Fall and Winter Quarters (1980-81). My next assignment took me to Memorial High School, (Spring '80) in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. 

I returned to Chile at the end of my assignment with these three schools; however, after a few months in Chile, I re-applied to Amity Institute, and this time, I was assigned to Virginia Union University, in Richmond, Virginia.

Subsequently, I completed my Master of Arts degree in Modern Languages from the Department of Modern Languages, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio. Last, I graduated with a Ph.D. in Early Modern Literature [Golden Age] from the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio.

Presently, I teach Spanish, Spanish for Professions and Literature in the Department of Foreign Languages at Georgia Southern University in Statesboro, Georgia. (see also: Georgia [tourism]).