Faculty | La Academia de España

Carlos González. Lic. Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, MA Juan March Institute. A native of Spain, Carlos has also lived and studied in Denmark, France, and the UK. With a deep background in the humanities, he has taught Spanish language and culture at ENS in Paris and the Middlebury College programs in Vermont and Madrid. He is currently a doctoral candidate in sociology at Oxford, and is spending this academic year at Princeton University as the recipient of a Fulbright scholarship.

Mónica Cruz Guáqueta. BA Universidad de los Andes, MA GETSAB-UPC, Barcelona. Originally from Colombia, Monica is currently based in Barcelona where she leads the documentary project for the inventory and catalogue of the Gaudí Chair Archive collections. She was a staff member of the architectural journal DC, Papeles de crítica arquitectónica, published by the Barcelona School of Architecture, from 2003 to 2005. She has frequently contributed to seminars and conferences on the history of architecture, as well as various international architectural journals.

Dr Eulalia Canals. Lic. Universidad de Barcelona, Cert. International House School of Languages, Barcelona, PhD CUNY. Eulalia lives in Barcelona and recently received her doctorate in linguistics. She has taught Spanish and Portuguese at NYU and Hunter College, and held the post of Writing Fellow at Brooklyn College, New York. She has won a number of awards, including a CUNY Graduate Center Award for Excellence.

Aishah Davis. BA (Hons) Southern Methodist University, MA University of Texas at Arlington. Aishah teaches at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia in Barcelona where she is a Spanish tutor and coordinates university courses for visiting students. She was educated in Texas and fell in love with Spain while obtaining her BA in International Studies and her MA in Languages.  She has traveled widely, visiting France, China, and Africa, and she speaks French and Chinese, as well as fluent Spanish.

Elsa Úbeda. Lic. Universidad de Barcelona, Cert. International House School of Languages, Barcelona. A Barcelona native and an experienced teacher of Spanish as a foreign language, Elsa is a doctoral candidate in Applied Linguistics at the Universidad de Barcelona.  In 2003 she won a Fulbright grant to work as a Spanish Language Teaching Assistant at Susquehanna University in Pennsylvania. She currently teaches Catalan at the Consorci per a la Normalització Lingüística.

Inti Velez Botero. BA Universidad de los Andes, MA Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Grenoble. Inti Velez Botero is a trained architect living in Barcelona where he heads his own firm, focusing largely on ephemeral architecture, called Wanda. Originally from Bogotá, Colombia, he has worked as a press manager in charge of international relations in the Barcelona offices of the architect Vicente Guallart, for whom he previously worked in Canada.

Rebecca Layton. BA Barnard College, MFA Hunter College. Rebecca is a New York-based artist who has produced work in collaboration with the Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia and is the recipient of the William Graf Travel Grant, which brought her to England to conduct research at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. She has also been the recipient of artist fellowships at the MacDowell Colony, the Skowhegan School of Art, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and has exhibited extensively in and around New York.  She has been teaching studio art and art history for over a decade.

Virginia Patrone. A Barcelona-based professional artist, Virginia has won numerous prizes and awards for her painting and sketching. In 1988, she won a Fulbright Grant to visit the United States where she became a Visiting Professor at SUNY and consulted at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. She has taught and exhibited in South America, the US, Japan, Germany, and her native Uruguay, where she was the winner of Uruguay’s Florencio Award.

Tania Espinoza Lombardo. BA (Hons) Macalester College, MPhil Cambridge. A native of Argentina and Bolivia, Tania is a member of King’s College, Cambridge, where she holds a Graduate Studentship. She works on critical theory and contemporary French thought, and is interested in the intersection between literature and spatial theory, psychoanalysis, cinema and feminism.  She is fluent in French, Italian and English as well as Spanish.

Jill Kupchik. BA (Hons) Lycoming College, MFA University of Idaho. The winner of the Phil G. Gillette Prize for Excellency at Lycoming College in 2003, Jill is an up-and-coming poet, whose work has been nominated for the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize and the AWP Intro Awards. She has taught and lectured in the United States and in France at such institutions as the University of Idaho, the Lycée Aristide-Berges, the Collège Pierre Dubois and the Collège Marc Sangnier. 

José Jiménez. DEUG Université de Paris IV, MA Université de Paris I. A museologist with several qualifications in the organization and management of museums and their collections, José has worked in galleries, museums, archives and institutions throughout Spain and France.  Educated in Paris, he also has extensive experience of life in Spain, having worked as a gallery curator in Montilla.

Alexandra Trell. BA (Hons) Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain, and University of Wolverhampton, PGCE London Metropolitan University. Alexandra teaches in Barcelona at Spanish Machine Language Services and she has experience of teaching both adults and young children. With a Postgraduate Certificate in Education from the UK, her extensive teaching background is complemented by considerable professional experience as an analyst and consultant.