Julia Bussade
Instructional Assistant Professor of Modern Languages and Director of Elementary Spanish and Portuguese Programs
Dr. Julia Bussade is an Instructional Assistant Professor of Modern Languages in the Department of Modern Languages at the University of Mississippi. She is the Director of Portuguese and Basic Spanish Programs.
Research Interests
Dr. Bussade’s interests include Spanish and Portuguese linguistics; contextualized culture in language teaching; distance learning; legal translations; and court interpretation.
Biography
Dr. Julia Emilia Bussade has been teaching since 1996. She holds a B.A. degree with a double major in Portuguese and English, from the Faculdade de Filosofia de Itaperuna (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), an M.A. in English from the Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais (Belo Horizonte, Brazil), and a Ph.D in Education with emphasis in TESOL, from the University of Mississippi.
Her dissertation “Teachers’ Attitudes toward the Use of Technology at the University of Mississippi” identified how much technology is used in language teaching in Spanish and Portuguese classes; what the perceptions from the instructors’ perspectives as to what the most effective resources for language teaching and learning are; the obstacles as well as facilitators in the use of technology in language teaching; samples of what is considered innovative technological resources use; and the frequency that technology has been used in the department.
Courses Taught
- Port 309 Portuguese for Other Rom Lang Speakers I
- Port 310 Portuguese for Other Rom Lang Speaker II
- Port 311 Business Portuguese
- Port 321 Brazilian Culture & Civilization
- Port 331 Intro Brazilian Lit & Literary Analysis
- Port 361 Special Topics in Portuguese
- Port 399 Brazilian Cinema
- Span 111 Portuguese for Reading
- Span 211 Intensive Elementary Spanish
- Span 304 Conversation and Composition II
Education
B.A. Liberal Arts, Faculdate De Filosofia De Itaperuna (1987)
M.A. English, Catholic University of Minas Gerais (1990)
Ph.D. Education, The University of Mississippi (2010)