Tina Ware Ph.D.

Dr. Tina Ware teaches a variety of Spanish courses from Beginning Spanish to Spanish Linguistics. She is the sponsor for OC’s Spanish Club, created the Spanish Immersion Lab, and, along with her husband, sponsored the Costa Rica Spring Break Program. Dr. Ware says that she loves the Language and Literature Department because “it’s such a tight-knit group of fun, interesting personalities”.

Dr. Ware co-edited the text Recipes for Success in Foreign Language Teaching: Ready-Made Activities for the L2 Classroom and also contributed a chapter to the volume. She presents and chairs panels regularly with the Northeastern Modern Language Association.

In her spare time, Dr. Ware likes to read, do yoga, watch movies, cook, and travel. When asked what she like to read for pleasure, she said that in addition to J. Jance and Sandra Cisneros, Dr. Ware “can’t get enough of Tess Gerritsen’s murder mystery medical dramas”.