Amy Nocton

AMY NOCTON was born in Iowa but has lived most of her life in Connecticut. She holds an MA in international affairs with a specialization in Latin American Studies from the University of Connecticut, an MA in education from the University of Hartford, and an MA in Spanish from Middlebury College. She also studied at the Università di Firenze and has traveled extensively throughout the Spanish-speaking world. Nocton published a Spanish-language short story in Inti: Revista Literatura Hispánica, poetry in the Connecticut Writing Project’s Teacher-Writer, and recently published two co-authored conference proceedings with the International Conference ICT for Language Learning, She is an adjunct professor of English at the University of Connecticut and teaches Spanish and Italian at RHAM High School, where upper-level Spanish students receive Early College Experience (ECE) credit from the UConn where she won the UConn Institute for Teaching and Learning’s ECE Teacher of the Year Award in 2012. Her high school students publish a bilingual blog during the academic year called Perdidos en sus pensamientos, which can be found at https://theunnamedspanishblog.wordpress.com.