Stephanie

An early love of traveling and languages led Stephanie to study abroad in Italy during her junior year of high school, and she’s been learning around the world ever since. After completing her B.A. in Comparative Literature at Williams College, with semester stints in Italy and Argentina, she earned a Ph.D. in Latin American Cultural Studies from Duke University with a focus on Brazil. Part of her research investigates access to higher education for historically marginalized youth from the urban peripheries of Rio de Janeiro. Stephanie has over ten years of teaching experience, including teaching Spanish at Duke University and English as a second language while living in Brazil. 

Always striving to make her research accessible outside of the academy, Stephanie occasionally writes about Brazil for US audiences and has even co-directed a short documentary about first generation college students at the Multidisciplinary Institute of the Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro. Stephanie is currently based in the San Francisco Bay where she is a lecturer in Stanford University's Program in Writing and Rhetoric teaching undergraduate composition. When she isn’t reading, writing, or teaching, Stephanie can be found out in the Bay or rolling out pizza dough in the kitchen.