Department of World Languages

Dr. Renée Sum Scott Department of World Languages University of North Florida 4567 St. Johns Bluff Road South Jacksonville, FL 32224 Phone: (904) 285-2901 E-mail: rscott@unf.edu

Dr. Renée Sum Scott, a native of Uruguay, is an Associate Professor of Spanish at the University of North Florida where she teaches Latin American Literature, Culture, and Spanish. Her research focuses on Latin American literature with emphasis on the Southern Cone, Jewish writers, gender and ethnicity. Her projects contribute to an understanding of the relationships between the literary texts and the historical and social conditions in which they are produced.

Education:
Ph.D., Hispanic Literatures, University of California, Berkeley, 1983
M.A., Spanish, Ohio State University, Columbus, 1976
B.A., French and Sociology, University of Haifa, Israel, 1974
Teaching Credential, Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Rabbi Gold College,
Jerusalem, 1967