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Welcome to McGraw-Hill World Languages and to our new Discipline Resource Site. With books in seven languages, an array of innovative websites and media products, and a renowned series of professional and methods textbooks, our commitment to innovative, high quality educational products goes unchallenged. Every day, more college and university students learn a second language with a McGraw-Hill textbook than with texts from any other publisher. Our success can be attributed to many talented authors, to an emphasis on product development, and to our partnership with you, the customer.

We hope you take a few minutes to check out the many features on our new Discipline Resource Site. In our Spotlight on the Profession feature you will find brief, engaging articles by leading language researchers and practitioners. A threaded discussion invites you to participate in dialogs with your peers from around the country. We also profile a number of former language majors in our Student Ticket to Success feature, illustrating the variety of careers that they have pursued and how their study of language has been essential to their professional success. And if you’d like to know a little bit more about us, you can read our biographies below.

McGraw-Hill World Languages will continue to publish books that are theoretically sound and eminently practical. We will strive to maintain our legacy of publishing books and media products that define the forefront of second language teaching.

McGraw-Hill World Languages: Your Partner for the Future

Sincerely,

Dr. Thalia Dorwick Vice President and Editor-In-Chief Social Sciences, Humanities, and World Languages	Dr. William R. Glass Executive Editor
Leslie M. Hines Sr. Sponsoring Editor	Nick Agnew Sr. Marketing Manager

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Ina Cumpiano/ Thalia Dorwick/ William Glass/
Leslie Hines/ Rachèle Lamontagne/ Max Ehrsam/ Fionnuala McEvoy/

 

EDITORIAL

Ina Cumpiano

Puerto Rican poet and translator Ina Cumpiano has worked in publishing for over eighteen years and has been with McGraw-Hill since 1998. As one of the San Francisco office’s Development editors and working primarily on Spanish language books, she has participated in the development of Motivos de conversación, Punto y aparte, España y su civilización, Nuevos destinos, and other projects. She holds Master’s Degrees from The Johns Hopkins University, the University of Northern Colorado, and the University of Iowa’s Writers Workshop, and was awarded a Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her own work appears regularly in journals and small magazines, and she was first prize winner of the 1999 New Millennium Review poetry competition.

Thalia Dorwick

Thalia Dorwick is Vice President and Editor-in-Chief of the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Languages Imprint. She has a Ph.D. in Spanish from Case Western Reserve University, taught at the university level for many years (CWRU, Allegheny College, California State University, Sacramento), and is the coauthor of Puntos de partida and ¿Qué tal?. She was in charge of the development of the McGraw-Hill World Languages list for many years and, in her new capacity, is still very involved with all new texts and revisions.

William R. Glass

William R. Glass is Executive Editor for World Languages at McGraw-Hill where he oversees Spanish, Portuguese, and Media Technology projects. He was previously assistant professor of Spanish at The Pennsylvania State University where he taught both undergraduate and graduate courses in language and applied linguistics. Dr. Glass received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in Spanish Applied Linguistics with a concentration in Second Language Acquisition and Teacher Education (SLATE). He has published numerous articles and co-edited with Ana Teresa Pérez-Leroux Contemporary Perspectives on the Acquisition of Spanish (Volumes 1 and 2), by Cascadilla Press. He is also a co-author of Puntos de partida: An Invitation to Spanish, ¿Qué tal?: An Introductory Course, and the Manual que acompaña ¿Sabías que…?, all by McGraw-Hill.

Leslie Hines

Leslie Hines is a Senior Sponsoring Editor in the World Languages Group. Leslie received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Speech Communications and French from California State University, Long Beach. She has been working in the higher educational publishing industry since 1991. She started her career at John Wiley & Sons as a publisher's representative in Baltimore, Maryland. Subsequently, Leslie became a Marketing Manager for the Modern Languages program in addition to other disciplines. In May of 1998, Leslie joined McGraw-Hill and is responsible for managing the French, Italian, German, Russian, and Japanese programs in the World Languages Group.

Rachèle Lamontagne

Rachèle is the developmental editor for French. She has been with the World Language Group for almost two years. She graduated in French Linguistics from Université Laval in Québec city and obtained teaching certificates for high school and adult education. While studying at Laval, she simultaneously worked as a research assistant for the Dictionnaire historique du français québécois. During the following ten years, she taught French as a second language to high school and adult students in British Columbia and for the summer immersion program at Université Laval.

Rachèle is fluent in French, English, and Spanish and has learned some German and Italian.

Max Ehrsam

Max is a Development Editor for Spanish. A native of Mexico City, he started learning German and English in primary school and later also studied Italian. He graduated with a degree in Latin American Literature from the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City. Before moving to the U.S., Max worked for Viceversa magazine, where he continues to publish cultural articles and short stories. Recently, Max attended the University of Rhode Island where he took his M.A. in Spanish and the University of Texas at Austin, where he completed coursework towards his Ph.D. He has been teaching Mexican Contemporary Fiction and Spanish language since 1994.

Fionnuala McEvoy

Fionnuala is an Editorial Assistant for the World Languages Group. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree in English and Spanish in 1999 from University College Dublin, Ireland . She joined McGraw-Hill in June 2000 and is new to the publishing industry. She is certified to teach English as a foreign lanuguage and spent time teaching English to children in Madrid, Spain.