Dr. Allgood earned her B.A. from
Samford University and her M.A.and Ph.D. from the University
of Alabama. She was an exchange scholar at the Universidad
Nacional Autónoma de Mexico and was certified as an
Oral Proficiency examiner by the American Council on the Teaching
of Foreign Languages. Research interests focus on twentieth
century Spanish American Literature, in particular the indigenist
fiction of Rosario Castellanos, as well as literary translation,
curriculum development, and proficiency-based pedagogy. Recipient
of the first annual Macon Award for Teaching at Samford, she
was also honored as Alabama’s Outstanding Foreign Language
Teacher: Post-Secondary and has received Special Service Awards
from the Alabama Association of Foreign Language Teachers
and the Rio Grande River Ministry of Texas. A member of Phi
Kappa Phi, she is also active in state, regional, and national
professional organizations and serves on the Advisory Board
of the Southern Conference on Language Teaching. She joined
the Samford faculty in 1963 and was World Languages and Cultures
department chair from 1982 to 2007. She currently administers
the department´s U.S.D.E. Foreign Language and International
Studies grant "Perspectives on Latin America," and
teaches courses in intermediate Spanish, Spanish Culture,
and Spanish literature and is a regular professor-in-residence
in Samford’s language study abroad programs in Spain
and Costa Rica. |
