Teresa Henderson Vazquez, M.A.

Faculty, CLI
Specialty: Spanish
Phone: 507-258-8232
Fax: 507-258-8066
Office: 318 Commons
Email: hend0284@umn.edu

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Education

M.A., Department of Spanish and Portuguese,
University of Iowa, 2004
B.A., Department of Spanish and Portuguese,
University of Iowa, 1996

Background

Teresa Henderson Vázquez originally intended to be an English professor, but could not resist the pull of Hispanic languages and cultures. She went to Spain for a month and stayed for a year, studying Spanish, Basque, and the dangerous art of dancing with sticks. She returned, completed a Spanish Honors B.A., and continued on to graduate studies at the University of Colorado Boulder. She returned to her home state of Iowa to complete her degree and learn to Latin dance. During this time she lived in Paraguay for a month to study Guaraní and a month and a half in Argentina to shuffle papers. She holds a M.A. in Hispanic Literature from the University of Iowa and is a Latin Americanist. Before joining UMR she taught for six years at Indiana University East, where she was honored with the Helen Lees Award for Excellence in Teaching and was an Indiana Campus Compact Faculty Fellow. She travels frequently to Mexico and to other Spanish-speaking countries whenever possible.

Teaching

Henderson Vázquez is responsible, along with Prof. Ryan Furness, for teaching Spanish language classes and assisting with the upcoming 4th semester Spanish community engagement initiative. Courses at her previous institution have included Elementary through Intermediate Spanish, “Colonial Spanish America”, “Fair Trade vs Free Trade: the effects of globalization on Central American communities”, “Hispanic Women”, “The Hispanic World”, and “20th Century Spanish Literature”. She very much enjoyed mentoring students in the Supplemental Instruction program in her previous position.