Jhonatan Henao-Muñoz

I’m Jhonatan Henao-Muñoz (he/they), an Assistant Professor of Practice in the W.A. Franke Honors College, UNIV Core Faculty and the inaugural Assistant Director of Bilingual Curriculum in the Office of General Education as well as an Affiliated Faculty of the Center for Latin American Studies, the Institute for LGTBQ+ Studies, Human Rights Practice Program, and National Center For Interpretation at the University of Arizona. Best known as #ProfeJhon, I’m a Blacktine scholar, lifelong learner, first-generation graduate student, linguist, world languages and college educator. I earned a B.A. in Teaching Modern Languages (2014, @UdeCaldas) and I hold three M.A.s, the first in Modern Languages and Literatures (2017, @UNLincoln), the second in Hispanic Linguistics, and the third in French Linguistics and Second Language Learning and Teaching (2020 & 2021 @UArizona). In addition, I completed three graduate certificates, the first in TESOL, the second in Technology in Second Language Teaching, and the third in Language Program Administration. Lastly, I’m a Ph.D. Candidate in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics (@unicomplutense) and a Ph.D. student Higher Education, in The Center for The Study of Higher Education, University of Arizona since Fall 2025. In sum, my academic background is intersectional: linguistics, languages, teaching with technology, and HigherEd.

I’m communicative by nature and I believe that teaching is about meaningful communication! My teaching adventure started in 2011, I have taught courses on Literacy, Linguistics, and Spanish and French languages at the university level, and since then I have been a tutor, teacher, mentor, adviser and supporter engaged with your success. I must admit that I do enjoy teaching to and learning from my co-learners (a.k.a. students). My professional interests include (bi/multi)literacy/ies, digital literacies, Romance languages, corpus linguistics, non-binary Spanish language, translation, academic writing, bilingual higher education. My personal interests (surprise! I have) include hiking, karaoke, watching anime, playing and napping with my cats, Sessho and Michi, and taking pictures! I’m an amateur photographer in love with nature.