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Kevin Torres
| Title: | Instructor of Italian |
| Department: | Languages, Literatures & Cultures College of Arts and Sciences |
| Email: | kjtorres@mailbox.sc.edu |
| Office: | Humanities Office Bldg. 924 |
A native of New Jersey who was raised in an Italian and Puerto Rican household, Signor
Torres speaks English, Spanish, Italian, French, German, Russian and Portuguese.
An avid international traveler, he has traveled to 16 countries and lived in Colombia.
He earned his B.A. in Spanish with a minor in French and later pursued the M.A.T.
in Foreign Languages at the University of South Carolina.
Since Fall 2016, Signor Torres has taught Spanish, French and Italian for USC. He
has also led two study abroad trips to Spain and Costa Rica.
His areas of research are in the retention and recruitment of Latino faculty in higher
education, post-colonial literature (Algeria) and the history of the French language.
Courses taught:
- Spanish 109 - Beginning Spanish I
- Spanish 110 - Beginning Spanish II
- Spanish 122 - Basic Proficiency in Spanish
- French 109 - Beginning French I
- French 110 - Beginning French II
- French 122 - Basic Proficiency in French
- French 210 - Oral Communication
- French 290 - French Literature in Translation
- Italian 121 - Elementary Italian I
- Italian 122 - Elementary Italian II