Roberto Forns-Broggi
Degree: Ph.D.
Professor
Department: Modern Language
- Phone: 303-615-0426
- Cell: 303-912-0657
- Email: [email protected]
Topics
Bilingual - Spanish Cinema Foreign Language Movies/Film/TV Streaming SpanishExpertise
- Latin American and Spanish literature
- Latin American and Spanish cinema
- Latin American and Spanish cultures
About
Roberto Forns-Broggi, Ph.D., is a professor of Spanish in the Department of Modern Languages at Metropolitan State University of Denver. He was born in Lima, Peru and speaks Spanish fluently.
Forns-Broggi has been teaching at MSU Denver since 1998. He is the faculty chair for the Modern Language Department Committee. Forns-Broggi also taught at Universidad Nacionla de Cordoba in Cordoba, Argentina for 13 years.
His research interests include Latin American and Spanish literature, popular cultures, environmental philosophy, environmental spiritualties, film studies, world cinema, environmental literature, film media literacy, critical thinking and creativity. He has taught classes about intercultural communication through literature and film; literary and cultural theory; creative writing and children’s literature.
Forns-Broggi received his doctorate in Spanish language and literature from Arizona State University in 1995.
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