Dr. Simon is an Assistant Professor of Spanish in the Department of Foreign Languages. He has taught courses on Spanish Language and Hispanic Cultures, Iberian Peninsular Literatures and Cultures, Commercial Spanish, Spanish for Criminal Justice Majors, Intermediate Portuguese Language and Lusophone Cultures, among others. He is the examiner for the Critical Languages program in Portuguese Language and Lusophone Cultures. Dr. Simon is also the Editor-in-Chief of The Kennesaw Tower, the Undergraduate Foreign Language Research Journal at Kennesaw State University; Coordinator of the Department Internship Programs; and Webmaster of Poetry in the Department of Foreign Languages.
Dr. Simon received his Bachelor of Arts and his Master of Arts degrees from Boston University in 2000, his doctorate from the University of Texas at Austin in 2006, as well as various certificates in Spanish and Portuguese Language, Culture and Literature from Spain, Portugal and the USA. Dr. Simon has taught Spanish language and cultures at Boston University, Suffolk University, and the University of Texas, and Portuguese / Lusophone language and cultures also at the University of Texas.
Among his research interests, presentations and publications are his studies of the presence of surrealism, mysticism, postmodernism and the notion of the paradigm shift in Contemporary Peninsular poetry (from Spain and Portugal). He is also interested in Post-Colonial themes surrounding Luso-African literatures (African literatures in Portuguese language), particularly contemporary Angolan and Mozambican poetries.
His most current on-going projects are studies of the Neo-Colonial and Post-Colonial subject in Portuguese Fado (a type of traditional music) and representations of the Paradigm Shift and of the un-centered subject in mystical Spanish and Portuguese poetry of the 20th Century. Among his present and forthcoming scholarly and creative publications are:
Dr. Simon is a member of various local, national and international organizations, such as the American Associations of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese (AATSP), the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL), the Modern Language Association (MLA), the South Atlantic MLA (SAMLA), the American Portuguese Studies Association (APSA), The Georgia Writers Association (GWA) and the Georgia Poetry Society.
Ph.D., The University of Texas at Austin
B.A., Boston University
M.A., Boston University
