Dr. Florencia Henshaw, Director of Advanced Spanish for the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, was recently elected to the Board of Directors of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese (AATSP).
Her term will begin on January 1. The AATSP is a language-specific professional association in the United States devoted to the study and teaching of Hispanic, Luso-Brazilian, and other related languages and cultures.
Dr. Henshaw’s primary research interests involve instructed adult second language acquisition of Spanish, both via computer-assisted instruction as well as in a formal classroom setting.
She was the recipient of an Academic Professional Award for outstanding contributions to the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences in 2019. She also received an Excellence in Language Instruction Award from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2018.