Frances Jaeger
Frances Jaeger is an associate professor of Spanish at Northern Illinois University. Her research interests include Latin American contemporary poetry as well as Caribbean and Central American literature.
She is a director of a faculty-led summer program in Mendoza, Argentina, and has led programs in Costa Rica in the past. Before coming to NIU in 2000, she earned her M.A. and Ph.D. at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana and taught at the Universitat de Barcelona, University of Puget Sound and University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Given her experiences as a child growing up bilingual (German and English), she strives to pass on these language skills to her son who is growing up trilingual (German, Spanish and English) and learning his first foreign language (Chinese).
When not busy with work or family activities, she tries to practice for her music lessons, learn to ride horseback, and keep up with an ever-growing pile of books on her bedside table.
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Frances Jaeger reflects on the words of Alfonso Cortés.
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Frances Jaeger asks this very important question — are you a spuddler, too?
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Frances Jaeger reflexiona en las palabras de Alfonso Cortés. (Frances Jaeger reflects on the words of Alfonso Cortés.)
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Frances Jaeger reflexiona en las palabras de Alfonso Cortés. (Frances Jaeger reflects on the words of Alfonso Cortés.)
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Technology's great 'til Frances Jaeger reminds you what's behind the death of the snow day.
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Frances Jaeger finds the poetry in housework — with some help from The Bard.
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If at first you don't succeed, try, try again...like Machiavelli!
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Looking for a slightly less-stressful holiday season? Frances Jaeger tells Santa to dial it back a notch.
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On the day traditionally spent in the kitchen with the gobbler, Frances Jaeger is in another room tending the gurgler.
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COVID has complicated what was used to be an open-and-shut decision for teachers and professors in classrooms everywhere.