Ole Miss Professor to Move On.
Antonio Reyes has been a teacher at Ole Miss since 2005 and has decided it’s time for a change. Originally from Cadiz, Spain Dr. Reyes moved to the University of Illinois in 2002 and earned his Master and Ph.D. He has been an assistant professor at the University of Mississippi for five years.
Dr. Reyes has accepted a job at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia that begins in August. He will be the only linguistics professor at the school and will be teaching Intro to Spanish Linguistics. He was pretty excited to talk about the move and ready to see anther part of the United States.
When asked about Oxford, Mississippi he had plenty to say. “I’m glad I got the opportunity to teach here, because now I know a lot of the negative sterotypes that I had heard are not true. The people are so nice and kind here and I have such great friends that I will sorely miss” he said there are plenty of other things that he will miss too, all of the festivals like Double Decker, the Oxford Film Festival, and tailgating in the Grove. “It is amazing how much alcohol people consume down here, and it’s not just the students I have friends in their forty’s and fifty’s that drink more than the students” he laughed.
Many students are going to miss him, just as he will miss them and the Snackbar his favorite restaurant in Oxford, not that he’s not going to miss all the food. There have been so many teachers to affect students in a postivie manner and Dr. Reyes has been one of the most amazing professors at Ole Miss during the last five years. Brooke Kimbro a senior at ole miss said, “Dr.Reyes will greatly be missed by all the students who have had him. He was a great asset to the university’s Spanish department as well as the Ole Miss community itself. He was always very positive and truly passionate about what he taught which made me as well as other students always look forward to coming to his class. His love for Spanish culture inspired me to study abroad in Spain a couple of summers ago and I am so grateful for being able to do so. The students at Washington and Lee are very lucky to have such a wonderful professor coming their way.” http://home.olemiss.edu/~areyesr/
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