About the Instructor

• Dr. Cora Bresciano was the co-founder and, for fourteen years, the executive director of Blue Planet Global Education, a non-profit organization that coached educators on creating international writing-and-arts collaborations. She was also a Visiting Instructor at FAU, teaching myth and magical realism in literature along with creative and first-year writing. She lectures and presents in the U.S. and abroad, recently in Lisbon at the Modern Language Association International Symposium. Dr. Bresciano holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Studies from FAU, with specializations in literature and 20^th century Spanish history. She also holds a Master of Fine Arts degree in creative writing from FAU, where she received the Frank and Courtney Brogan Award in Fiction, and a bachelor's degree in music education from Hofstra University in New York.