College of Arts and Sciences

Associate Professor
Phone: (239)590-7232
E-Mail: imrico@fgcu.edu
Office: Modular 1, Room 30

Coordinator Service Learning Project to Santiago, Dominican Republic
Coordinator Study Abroad, Gijón, Spain

Licenciatura Univesidad de Deusto, 1989
Ph.D. Pennsylvania State University, 1994

Teaching and Research InterestsRomanticism, Interdisciplinary Studies, Languages, Translation and Service Learning.

Ingrid Martinez-Rico has been teaching at FGCU since 2000.  She is an experienced international educator, having taught in Kenya and Lithuania.  For the past seven years she has organized the Service Learning Project to Santiago, Dominican Republic, where she leads a group of FGCU students in SL Projects with local organizations that serve children who work in the streets.  She also is Director of the Study Abroad Program in Gijón, Spain.  She has published several translations of poetry, and she currently is working on a volume of Bruce Weigl’s poetry.  She has two children and a dog and loves to travel with them, leaving her husband to watch the house.

PublicationsTranslations of Contributing essays by Alberto Cárdenas Jiménez and Mateo A. Castillo Ceja, Ledesma, Rene and Josephine Espaillat, Guillem Ramis, Yolanda Kakabadse and Federico Mayor in Toward a Sustainable World: The Earth Charter in Action.  Corcoran, Peter Blaze (Ed.).  Amsterdam: Royal Tropical Institute Publishers, 2005.     
Picker, Marion.  “Paseo por el Rin.”  Trans. Ingrid Martinez-Rico.  Sirena 1 (2004): 139-141.

Novo, Olga.  "Intimate Liquid" and "Cavendish".  Trans. Ingrid Martinez-Rico.  Atlanta Review 9.3 (2003): 43-45.

“Rosalia de Castro" in Women in World History. Connecticut: Yorkin Publications (1998).

Awards and Distinctions2005 FGCU Professional Development Grant.
2004 Junior Faculty Service Award, Florida Gulf Coast University.
NEH Summer Seminar for College Teachers on Romanticism and Gender directed by Professor Anne K. Mellor, University of California, Los Angeles, June 20-August 9, 1994.