Heather Jerónimo

Associate Professor of Spanish

Heather Jerónimo
Location

2008 Bartlett Hall

Phone
(319) 273-6227

Heather Jerónimo

Associate Professor of Spanish

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Dr. Heather Jerónimo is an Associate Professor of Spanish who has been a faculty member of UNI’s department of Languages & Literatures since 2014. She specializes in 20th and 21st-century Spanish literature and film, with particular focus on topics of gender, sexuality, and non-normative familial relationships. Her work has been published in several peer-reviewed journals, including Bulletin of Spanish Studies, Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos, Letras femeninas, Foreign Language Annals, and Afro-Hispanic Review. During the summer, Dr. Jerónimo leads a two-week study-abroad experience in Barcelona, Spain. She is the advisor for UNI’s chapter of the Spanish honor society, Sigma Delta Pi.

Education

Ph.D., University of Nebraska-Lincoln
M.A., University of Nebraska-Lincoln
B.A., Doane College

Teaching Interests
  • Elementary Spanish 2
  • Intermediate Spanish
  • Oral & Written Spanish
  • Advanced Writing 
  • Introduction to Hispanic Literature
  • Introduction to Translation
  • Survey of Spanish Literature
  • Culture and Civilization of Spain
  • Literary and Cultural Perspectives of Barcelona 
  • Hispanic Graphic Novel
  • 20th Century Transnational Spain
  • Spanish Civil War 
  • Hispanic Family in Film
Research Interests
  • 20th and 21st-century Spanish literature and cultures
  • Gender and Sexuality
  • Queer Studies
  • The Spanish Family
  • Migration into and out of Spain
  • Aging Studies
  • Film Studies