Costa Rica Trip Leaders
Marta Sanchez is a recently retired professor from the University of Costa Rica (UCR) where she taught English composition, reading and Nietzchean aesthetics applied to literature at the School of Modern Languages. Currently, she still devotes part of her time to the academy, doing pro bono work at the UCR as a member of the editorial board of Revista Kanina, an academic journal publishing articles on language, literature, and the arts. She is also directing a thesis on Spanish L2 (Spanish as a second language) reader response to literary texts. This work is based on an approach Prof. Sanchez herself created, consisting of a combination of schema theory and aesthetic response to analyze the reader's response.
Amazingly enough, these academic endeavors leave her some room to devote to other exciting activities, hence her involvement with Global Exchange's Reality Tours. Through leading a group of visitors across some of Costa Rica's most beautiful natural settings, she expects to contribute with Global Exchange mission of promoting socially responsible tourism where dimensions of Costa Rican culture and sociopolitical struggles are brought into light.