As a professor and adviser, Victor Calderin motivates students at the Hialeah Campus.<\/p>\n
Calderin was born and raised in Hialeah, Florida. After graduating from American Senior High School in 1994, he attended Florida International University until 1996 and transferred to University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.<\/p>\n
He completed his bachelor\u2019s degree in English and comparative literature in 1998 and a master\u2019s degree in comparative literature in 2002.<\/p>\n
In 2005, Calderin began working as an English professor at Miami Dade College. He is also currently the co-adviser for Caf\u00e9 Cultura,<\/em> faculty adviser for the Anime Club, a faculty co-convener for the English Committee and a co-chair for the Gordon Rule Committee.<\/p>\n \u201cHe has many students that come to see him in his office and he will spend hours just talking to a student, just talking, talking about anything,\u201d said Ivonne Lamazares, the co-adviser of Caf\u00e9 Cultura<\/em>, the literary magazine at Hialeah Campus. \u201cTalking about the new films that are coming out, the new books that he\u2019s reading, whether there is a God; he just has that kind of rapport with his students and he loves it.\u201d<\/p>\n The idea to start Caf\u00e9 Cultura<\/em> came after a series of open-mic poetry readings called Caf\u00e9 y Cultura<\/em> were held at the Hialeah Campus. Calderin and Lamazares have been advisers for the literary magazine ever since.<\/p>\n In the 2010 at the Florida Community College Press Association magazine competition, Caf\u00e9 Cultura<\/em> won first place in general excellence in Division A.<\/p>\n John Muniz, 22, an alumn of Miami Dade College and former head designer for three years atCaf\u00e9 Cultura<\/em> said Calderin is a big reason for the magazines success.<\/p>\n \u201cHe really motivates us to work and to picture something great,\u201d Muniz said. \u201cI think he\u2019s the type of person that really knows how to get people together.\u201d<\/p>\n Calderin has been influenced by various types of literature and authors.<\/p>\n \u201cI have a very global perspective of how literature functions and the canon of literature is very epic and not just one type or one country,\u201d Calderin said. \u201cIt\u2019s fluid and changes.\u201d<\/p>\n That is why Calderin plans to continue sharing his love of literature at Hialeah Campus.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s really great teaching at this campus because it\u2019s like teaching at home,\u201d Calderin said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As a professor and adviser, Victor Calderin motivates students at the Hialeah Campus. Calderin was born and raised in Hialeah, Florida. After graduating from American Senior High School in 1994, he attended Florida International University until 1996 and transferred to University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He completed his bachelor\u2019s degree in English and comparative […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":376,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7299","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news"},"yoast_head":"\n