From time to time, we try to give you a glimpse into our offices around the globe. This week, we are excited to introduce three members of our Institutional Marketing team for Latin America. Seth, Molly, and Juan work with libraries and other institutions around the world, from setting up educational webinars to holding Library Advisory councils, from updating librarians on new journals and websites to providing them with tools to help faculty and students.
Seth Clark, Assistant Marketing Manager
What’s your favorite Spanish word?
Definitely ‘sacapuntas‘! It sounds like an angry expletive, though you’re really just saying, ‘pencil sharpener!’
What’s the strangest thing currently on or in your desk?
That’d have to be a drawing from my daughter, Gracen. It’s my four year-old’s rendition of the Cary OUP office (which she thinks is a skyscraper), made complete with a lovely four-story rose. Maybe someday she’ll be added to Benezit!
If you didn’t work in publishing, what would you be doing?
I’d probably go back to where I started: the classroom. I taught high school Spanish for six years, working with some really awesome students and teachers.
What is your favorite food?
I’m addicted to tacos al pastor. There’s a little taquería where I live in North Carolina that has, hands down, the best tacos al pastor I’ve ever had. I also love dark beer, if you can count that as a food (yeast, right?).
What will you be doing once you’ve completed this Q&A?
I’ll be checking the click-through rates of our Facebook ads that are running in Latin America. We reach about one million university students each month, highlighting content from OUP’s online resources. Last month, for example, 5,410 students clicked on an ad highlighting Marriage quotes in the Oxford Dictionary of Humorous Quotations, Fourth edition..
Molly Hansen, Marketing Associate
What’s your favorite word in Portuguese?
Ótimo (awesome)—I find myself saying this instead of awesome sometimes. It’s a word with a lot of energy.
What’s the strangest thing currently on or in your desk?
A set of three cups I lovingly call “Bad Cups” that I made in a clay casting class in college. The three are either misshapen or poorly glazed and are now stuck together after being stacked for so long. My little (out)casts! The second strangest thing on my desk is a red feather boa.
If you didn’t work in publishing, what would you be doing?
Fulfilling my childhood dream of being a dolphin trainer. Or starring in the next Star Wars movie.
What’s your favorite food?
Grilled cheese from a churrascaria—a slab of mozzarella or other kinds of cheese seared and then sliced on the table. The most heavenly melted cheese you can imagine! Even better when washed down with a caipirinha.
Juan Fuentes, Marketing Associate
What is your favorite word?
My favorite word is abacaxí, meaning pineapple in Portuguese.
What is the strangest thing currently on or in your desk?
A miniature gavel/neck massager. It’s an interesting rolling wooden instrument to release tension. My co-worker Mackenzie Warren gifted to me. Ha!
If you didn’t work in publishing, what would you be doing?
Broadcast journalism (I’m addicted to the news!) or law school.
What is your favorite food?
Chiles en nogada, which consists of poblano chiles filled with picadillo (a mixture usually filled with shredded meat, fruits and spices) topped with walnut-based cream sauce, called nogada, and pomegranate seeds, giving the three colors of the Mexican flag. ¡Viva México!
What will you be doing once you’ve completed this Q&A?
Ordering OUP swag, flyers and preparing for Feria Internacional del Libro de Buenos Aires/International Book Fair of Buenos Aires!
Image Credit: “Tulum” by Ashley Halsey Hemingway. CC BY NC-SA 2.0 via Flickr.
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