Rate My Professor Rosario Drucker Davis

Rosario Drucker Davis, with a strong foundation in linguistics, holds a B.A. in Linguistics from the University of Kentucky (1980), an M.A. in English as a Second Language from the University of Arizona (1982), and an M.A. in French Literature from the University of Cincinnati (2007). Currently serving as Assistant Professor - Educator (F2) in the Department of Romance and Arabic Languages and Literatures at the University of Cincinnati, she specializes in teaching practical Spanish courses tailored to professional fields. Her courses include SPAN 3010: Spanish for Social Work and Health Care Services, SPAN 3021/7021: Business Spanish I, SPAN 3022/7022: Business Spanish II, and SPAN 3052: Service Learning Medical Spanish. She also teaches French, drawing on her multilingual expertise and background in linguistics and second language acquisition.

Born in Mexico to an American father, an anthropology professor, and a Mexican mother, Drucker Davis relocated to Lexington, Kentucky at the age of eleven. Her distinguished career in language instruction began as a Graduate Teaching Assistant in the Department of Spanish and Italian at the University of Kentucky (January to August 1981) and continued at the University of Arizona as a Graduate Teaching Assistant in Romance Languages (1981-1982). She taught English as a Second Language at the University of Tennessee at Martin from 1983 to 1985. Throughout her tenure at the University of Cincinnati, she has held multiple roles, including adjunct writing instructor (2000-2001), adjunct ESL instructor (2001), graduate lecturer in Romance and Arabic Languages and Literatures (2002-2007), English lecturer at Université d’Angers in France (2007-2008), visiting field service instructor (2008-2009), adjunct instructor at UC Clermont College (2010-2015), adjunct assistant professor (2019-2021), and her present position since 2021. Additionally, Drucker Davis has contributed translations and interviews to Latin American Literature Today, featuring prominent Latin American authors and topics in electronic and digital literature in 2019.