Office Hours:

Spring 2007

M,W 10-11am

Monica Detrick was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina and is a U.S. citizen. She came to BYU at age 19 and started working at the Spanish and Portuguese Dept. and also as an instructor at the MTC.

She served a full-time mission to Argentina-Cordoba and a stake mission in Utah Valley.  She was recently released after serving another mission as an Employment Counselor at the LDS Employment Center in American Fork.

Later she graduated with a B.A. in Spanish and a minor in Bilingual Education.  She took a break to raise five children and then come back to school to pursue a M.A. in Latin American Literature.  She is slowly working towards a PhD in Latin American Theatre and Comparative Literature.

While a graduate student, she was President of the Graduate Student Society and presented her research at scholarly conferences and published some of her work. Her thesis dealt with Latin American Jewish Theatre and the Mexican Writer Sabina Berman. She worked under the supervision of Dr. Quackenbush, Dr.Cluff and Dr. Forster.

Mrs. Detrick's literary reserach includes Latin American Jewish Literature, Women Writers, Culture, Latin American Theatre and Creative Writing. She has also been involved in the B.Y.U Writing Across the Curriculum.  She is presently compiling a book for publication.

She is a member of Sigma Delta Pi, LAJSA (Latin American Jewish Studies Association), Asociación Internacional de Hispanistas, and Asociación de Literatura Femenina Hispánica.

She enjoys the outdoors, art, music, poetry, traveling and studying and experiencing a diversity of cultures. Mrs. Detrick also teaches AP Spanish and Concurrent Enrollment at a local High School.  She has been employed as a part-time Faculty since 1996.