Miriam Patterson

Miriam Patterson was born in San Luis Potosi, Mexico and moved to the states as an international student. A native Spanish speaker, she learned English while at Bob Jones University and also earned a bachelor’s degree in French and minored in Business Administration. After graduation she worked as a paralegal and an accountant at a Law Firm in Orlando, Florida, while teaching Spanish part-time at a Christian school. She earned a master’s degree in Personnel Services while being a Spanish Teaching GA at Bob Jones University. Miriam now teaches full time as a Spanish professor in the Modern Language Department. She defended her dissertation in August 2013 and obtained an Ed.D. in Curriculum and Instruction at BJU. She teaches courses like Grammar and Composition, Advanced Grammar and Composition, Conversation, Technical Spanish, Civilization of Latin America and Intermediate Spanish I and II.

She met her husband at a language learning club. They travel as a family on missions teams to Mexico and Japan and have had the opportunity to live in Paris, France. They are now raising their three young children to be trilingual, speaking Spanish and French at home and English outside the home.