Charlotte Whittle, Spanish

B.A., Oxford University, M.A., Brown University

Charlotte Whittle was born in Utah but grew up in England, and spent summers visiting her family in the American West. She learned and fell in love with Spanish during the year she spent in Xalapa, Mexico, prior to studying English Literature and Spanish at Oxford. As an undergraduate she received a fellowship to spend a year studying in Arequipa, Peru, where she began work on her thesis on the poetry of César Vallejo. Since then, she has lived in the Northeastern United States and in Santiago de Chile, where she worked with the British Council and studied translation in a British-Chilean joint degree program. Her later graduate studies in Spanish at Brown allowed her to travel to Mexico, Argentina, Uruguay, and Brazil. She taught for several years in the undergraduate Spanish program at Brown, where she was awarded the Kossoff Prize for Leadership in Language Teaching. She is thrilled to be working with York’s creative and enthusiastic students. Charlotte has published articles on Latin American literature and spends her free time reading, writing, translating, and riding horses.  She currently lives in Pacific Grove with her husband and two cats.