Heidi A. Backes

Associate Professor

Languages Cultures and Religions

Role: Faculty

Campus: Springfield

PhD, Modern Spanish Peninsular Literature, 2011, University of Wisconsin – Madison
MA, Foreign Language and Literature—Spanish Literature, 2007, University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee
BA, Spanish, 2004, University of Wisconsin – Stevens Point

SPN 205 Spanish Conversation
SPN 312 Spanish Composition
SPN 320 Hispanic Cinema
SPN 325 Spanish Civilization
SPN 410 Intro to Spanish Translation
SPN 450 Survey of Peninsular Literature
SPN 495 Advanced Undergraduate Seminar (“Franquismo in Spanish Visual and Print Culture”)
SPN 725 Graduate Seminar in Hispanic Literature and Culture

Associate Professor of Spanish, Missouri State University, 2016-present
Assistant Professor of Spanish, Drury University, 2012-2016
Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish, University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee, 2011-2012

Review of Spanish Vampire Fiction Since 1900: Blood Relations, by Abigail Lee Six. Bulletin of Spanish Studies, vol. 97, no. 2, May 2020.
Rhetorical Monstrosity and Female Agency in Adelaida García Morales’s El Sur. Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, vol. 96, no. 7, 2019, pp. 731-745.
Shared Trauma: Historical Memory and the Doppelgänger in Carlos Ruiz Zafón’s The Shadow of the Wind. Aeternum: Journal of Contemporary Gothic Studies, vol. 6, no. 1, June 2019, pp. 49-63.

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