DEPARTMENT OF SPANISH & PORTUGUESE

Dr. Claudia Quevedo-Webb is an Assistant Professor of Instruction in Spanish at Northwestern University. Claudia holds a BA and MA in Spanish Language and Literatures and a Ph.D. in Spanish Linguistics (Complutense University of Madrid). She started her career as a language instructor and TA at Harvard University in 2017 and in 2020 she became an Assistant Instructional Professor in Spanish at the University of Chicago. Her research areas of interest focus on new technologies in the language classroom, particularly the use of VR, and diversity, equity, and inclusion in language teaching and learning. At the University of Chicago, she was the co-director of the Virtual Reality in Spanish and Portuguese Project (2020-2023). She is currently the co-director of DEI-SLT, an open educational resource website supported by CERCLL (University of Arizona), that offers support to educators who want to bridge language teaching and social justice. Since she joined the department, she has become one of the principal investigators of a study to gather data on how VR technology may foster critical cultural engagement in the Spanish language classroom. She is also co-leading a Virtual Reality Exchange Project in collaboration with the Down Syndrome Foundation of Cantabria (La Fundación Síndrome de Down de Cantabria). During the spring quarter of 2024, she has organized asynchronous VR exchanges between her 115-2 NU students and the members of the foundation in collaboration with the MADS lab team and the IT Media & Technology Innovation team.