Heather R. Hennes, PhD

PhD Florida State University

MA Florida State University

BA John Carroll University

Book Translations and Critical Editions

• Mirabal, Dedé. Alive in Their Garden. The True Story of the Mirabal Sisters and Their Fight for Freedom. Trans. Ana E. (Nani) Martínez and Heather Hennes. Preface Heather Hennes. Gainesville: UP of Florida, 2025.
• Tavárez Mirabal, Minou. The Letters of Minerva Mirabal and Manolo Tavárez: Love and Resistance in the Time of Trujillo. Trans. and Intro. Heather Hennes. Gainesville: UP of Florida, 2022.
   

Podcast Appearance
“The Sisters Who Took on a Dictator.” History’s Heroes. Host Alex von Tunzelmann. Prod. Michael LaPointe. BBC Studios. 6 Jan. 2026. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0mq440k
 

Scholarly Articles

• Manuela Vuelve': La Amable Loca as Foundational Myth in Venezuela." (Alter)nativas 8 (2018). n.p. https://alternativas.osu.edu/en/issues/spring-8-2018/miscellany2/hennes.html.
• “Seductora, amazona, heroína: la representación de Manuela Sáenz en los ‘diarios perdidos.’” Revista nacional de cultura 18 (2012): 259-72.
• “Irony and Criticism in Jorge Alí Triana’s Bolívar soy yo,” The Philological Papers 55-56 (2012): 69-79.
• “The Gendered Spaces of La Libertadora: Diego Rísquez’s Manuela Sáenz.” Hispanic Journal 32.2 (2011): 95-108.
• “Bringing the Bicentennials into the Language and Culture Classroom: A Multimedia Approach.” Hispania: 94.2 (2011): 348-59.
• “Los ‘diarios perdidos’ de Manuela Sáenz y la formación de un icono cultural.” Kipus: revista andina de letras 26.2 (2009): 109-32.
• “Corrientes culturales en la leyenda de Juana Azurduy de Padilla,” Cuadernos americanos132.2 (2010): 93-115.
• “Gender, Sexual Desire and Manuela Sáenz in the Writings of Jean-Baptiste Boussingault and Ricardo Palma.” Bulletin of Hispanic Studies 87.3 (2010): 347-64.
   

Co-authored articles

• Hennes, Heather; Sosa, Graciela and Wexler, Berta. “El honor y normas de género en las epístolas de Manuela Sáenz. Una voz femenina que se sitúa en ‘América.’” Comisión del Bicentenario Mujer e Independencia en América Latina. Sara Beatriz Guardia, ed., Centro para el Estudio de la Mujer en la Historia de America Latina. 4 Nov. 2011. Web.
• Ewald, Jennifer and Heather Hennes. “Red Lights and Yellow Lights: Moving Toward an Informed Use of Online Resources.” The Language Educator 3.1 (2008): 45-47.

Other publications:

• "Manuela Sáenz." Escritoras latinoamericanas del diecinueve. Colección virtual. Escritoras Latinoamericanas del Diecinueve. Eds. Claire Emilie Martin and María Nelly Gotzwith. Apr. 9, 2015. Web.
• “Catherine M. Jaffe and Elizabeth Franklin Lewis: Eve’s Enlightenment: Women’s Experience in Spain and Spanish America, 1726-1839.” The Americas: A Quarterly Review of Inter-American Cultural History 66.3 (2010): 399-401.
• “Ancient Miamians: An Imaginative Recreation of the Lives of Native Floridians.” H-net Reviews in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Ed. Melvin Page and Robert Cassanello. Sept. 2002. Humanities & Social Sciences OnLine. Web. www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=6759. Editorially reviewed. Review invited by H-Florida.

Other Translations:

“Land Markets, Social Reproduction and Configuration of Urban Space: A Case Study of FiveMunicipalities in the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area.” Juan D. Lombardo, Mercedes DiVirgilio, Leonardo Fernández, Natalia Da Representaçao, and Victoria Brushchi. Dialogues in Urban and Regional Planning, Vol. 1. Eds. Bruce Stiftel and Vanessa Watson. New York: Routledge, 2004. 95-136.

Poems in Mississippi Review: World Poetry Edition 28.3 (2000).

• “Dark Ritual.” Antonio Correa Losada. 149.
• “The Foolish Country.” Juan Gustavo Cobo Borda. 115.
• “Hara-Kiri.” Rafael del Castillo Matamoros. 153.
• “A Question of Statistics.” Piedad Bonnett Vélez.173.

Professor Hennes teaches Spanish through the study of culture, literature, translation and discussions about current events. One area of her scholarship examines how certain iconic women from Latin American have been represented in literature, film, political discourse and popular culture. She has examined the Independence-era icons Manuela Sáenz Aizpuru and Juana Azurduy de Padilla, and her most recent work has focused on the Mirabal sisters of the Dominican Republic. A second area of her scholarship is literary translation. She has published two book-length translations and critical editions about the Mirabal sisters, as well as a few smaller projects. She is currently translating a children's book about the human microbiota.

For a discussion of her work translating Minou Tavárez Mirabal's book Mañana te escribiré otra vez. Minerva y Manolo. Cartas / The Letters of Minerva Mirabal and Manolo Tavárez: Love and Resistance in the Time of Trujillo, see:

​​​​​​​ "Authors in Conversation: Elizabeth S. Manley and Heather Hennes." Coord. Stephanye Hunter. University Press of Florida. Uploaded by Florida Press May 6, 2022. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9v=Yns-M-uSPY4.

For an orientation to the Mirabal sisters, listen to the following podcast by BBC Studios:
“The Sisters Who Took on a Dictator.” ​​​​​​​History’s Heroes. Host Alex von Tunzelmann. Prod. Michael LaPointe. BBC Studios. 6 Jan. 2026.  https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0mq440k.