
Dr. Pedro G. Koo

Department
Languages Cultures and Religions
Role:
Faculty
Campus:
Springfield
Postal mail
Missouri State University
Languages Cultures and Religions
901 S. National Ave.
Springfield,
MO
65897
Details
Education
- PhD, Spanish University of Oklahoma
- MA, Spanish University of Oklahoma
- MBA in Finance University of Oklahoma
Teaching
- Spanish 460 Spanish American Literature: Latin-American Short Story
- Spanish 460 Spanish American Literature: Survey in Latin-American Literature
- Spanish 415 Business and Professional Spanish
- Spanish 325 Civilization of Spain
- Spanish 320 Spanish Cinema
- Spanish 312 Spanish Composition
- Spanish 205 Spanish Proficiency Skills
- Spanish 202 Intermediate Spanish II
- Spanish 201 Intermediate Spanish I
- Spanish 102 Elementary Spanish II
- Spanish 101 Elementary Spanish I
Research and professional interests
- Cultural Studies and the Spanish American Novel
- The novels of the PostBoom
- Modern Peruvian Novel 1970 to the Present
- Literary Criticism and its application to Latin American Literature
- Film as Literature, Literature as Film: Motion Pictures and Latin American Narrative
- Film and Gender studies
Awards and honors
- International Travel Support, Missouri State University. $500 to attend the XXVII International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, Montreal, Canada (September 8, 2007)
- Summer Faculty Fellowship, Missouri State University. $5,000 to fund research trip to Austin, Texas.