Education
BA – ESL – Translation, Universidad Latina, Panamá, 2003
MA – Spanish – SLA, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Fl 2006
Ph.D. – Interdisciplinary Humanities – Spanish, Florida State University, 2010
Interests
- Spanish language (all levels)
- Computer assisted language learning
- Translation studies
- Science & Business – translation
- Indigenous cultures and languages of Central America
- Women & Gender Studies
Publications and Translations
- Swain LO, Swain TD. 2017. Language learning under classroom conditions during the transition
to hybrid instruction: A case-study of student performance during the implementation of instructional technology. Peer Review. European Journal of Foreign Language Teaching 2: 49–64. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1034563
- Swain, LO 2017. Translation into Spanish: Swain TD. Revisiting the phylogeny of Zoanthidea
(Cnidaria: Anthozoa): staggered alignment of hypervariable sequences improves species tree inference. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, (MPE) 118: 1–12. Peer Review. doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2017.09.008
Swain, LO 2015. Translation into Spanish. Swain TD, Strimaitis A*, Reuter K*, Boudreau W*. Towards integrative systematics of Anthozoa (Cnidaria): evolution of form in the order Zoanthidea. Zoologica Scripta. Peer–reviewed. DOI: 10.1111/zsc.12195
- Swain LO. 2014. Translation into Spanish: TD, Swain LM. (2014) Molecular parataxonomy as taxon description: examples from recently named Zoanthidea (Cnidaria: Anthozoa) with revision based on serial histology of microanatomy. Zootaxa 3796: 81–107
- Swain LO. 2010. Women Narratives, PhD Dissertation. Tallahasse, Florida State University.
- Swain LO. 2009. Translation into Spanish: James, F. C., & Pourtless IV, J. A. (2009). Cladistics and the origin of birds: A review and two new analyses. Ornithological Monographs, 66(1), 1-78.